Some LWN notes - RSS feed of comments [LWN.net]

Some LWN notes - RSS feed of comments

Posted Jun 24, 2006 1:04 UTC (Sat) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
Parent article: Some LWN notes

> There is also a new feed which tracks the most recently posted
> comments; anybody who is interested in tracking the LWN discussion
> across the site is encouraged to subscribe.

I thought I would try this - with Liferea.

I am reminded of the quote - don't remember who said it - that RSS is
like NetNews reinvented badly....

I do like the fact that I can easily see comments made after I've read
the article. I'm even amused by the sudden spate of extra comments
that appear 7 days after a $$ article was published (SPF on VGER being
a case in point).

But there is so little context available when reading via RSS that
some comments are very hard to interpret - especially when people
(quite reasonably) change the subject.

It is also impossible to 'kill' a thread (as I would like to do with a
recent article about Novell leadership) - A problem I have also
noticed with RSS aggregators - you get all or nothing.

But for a constructive comment: Would it be possible that the
original article title remain in the RSS fed comment, maybe as a
footer:

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