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Can news.yc provide a 'comment' link in the RSS feeds?

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I like how the feed titles go directly to the article in question and not to their own homepage first (like Digg), but I often find that I want to comment on a story I read here on news.yc. This means I have to open up news.ycombinator.com, find the article, and click 'comments'. Can you provide a simple '[comments]' link in the feed body pointing to the news.yc comment page, similar to reddit?

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Yes! Please do this!

I read the RSS feed for news.ycombinator.com, and I don't get to view (and participate in) the discussions as much as I'd like to, purely because the RSS feed in Google Reader does not include a link to the discussion page.

I see the RSS feed contains a <comments> element for each entry, which is being ignored by Google Reader. Sure, using <comments> is the purer way to do it, but it's worth adding a simple "View comments" link to the description of each RSS entry, for people whose RSS readers don't support the RSS <comments> tag.

YES!

I use google-reader, and the only link is to the target story. Ideally, the RSS feed would allow a link to the news.yc story, which would allow you to leave a comment. Modding should also be in the rss feed, if possible. Buttons are bad in most rss feeds it seems.

We do. Look at the feed source. If there's something wrong with the format, please tell us.

I'm starting to feel either invisible or grossly inarticulate on this one. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842

A lot of readers will render (xml escaped) html put in a description tag for each item, including a tags pointing to a given link's comment page.

There is something wrong with the format. Some readers are ignoring the comment field (not your fault, but that's the sad reality), change it to a description field and encode the link to the story and the link to the comments in that field. This is what the reddit feed does, fwiw.

This is a bit old, but I made an alternate feed that did this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419

I'm using FeedReader and there isn't a comment link. I'm not sure if it's specific to FR, but there's no article summary or extract, that would also be useful.

What RSS reader are you using? In IE7 (no one's favorite) there is a comments link. Not sure about other feed readers.

you can use the bookmarklet, but this means you'll be upvoting the article, too.

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