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Kill file and topic selection for RSSKill file and topic selection for RSSPosted Oct 4, 2010 9:00 UTC (Mon) by biged (subscriber, #50106)In reply to: Kill file by corbet Parent article: Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android (ars technica)
Jon, could I ask you to provide a per-account RSS feed which includes the user filtering and topic selection? As farnz says, the volume and mix of comments on LWN has changed over the last year or so. I've got to the point where the general RSS feed is barely useful - but I still prefer to read an uptodate stream than to visit articles and commentary manually. When I read the weekly edition I don't need to read comments because I already have them covered.
Having a few people in the kill file would be a moral victory at least.
The topic filtering is a bit different: I am interested in legal issues, but not interested in endless circular argument.
At a hundred comments a day, even skipping through 50 unwanted comments takes some time and energy. I don't want to lose enthusiasm for the site.
Does the kill file also kill responses to killed comments? That would be worth an extra level of subscription!
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Kill file and topic selection for RSS Posted Oct 4, 2010 13:30 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Per-account RSS feeds is something we can look into. Meanwhile, have you looked at the unread comments page? Filtering does work there (and yes, it filters replies too). I think it beats an RSS feed in that it tries to keep the threading intact.
Kill file and topic selection for RSS Posted Oct 4, 2010 14:19 UTC (Mon) by biged (subscriber, #50106) [Link]
Thanks Jon, I will see if that works better for me. I think I've seen you mention that before, but haven't used it. Having the responses to killed comments invisible should be a boon. A killer feature, if you will.
I'm familiar with other forums where I have to poll, but can then see unread messages. What it does mean is I have to stop bothering with the RSS feed - and remember to poll for unread comments. I'll keep a feed to LWN news though.
Unread comments (subscribers only) Posted Oct 4, 2010 14:32 UTC (Mon) by biged (subscriber, #50106) [Link]
Just a minor point, having decided to start using that feature: I'm having trouble finding a link to the unread comments page: it's on the FAQ, and mentioned in your article about improvements. Maybe I just can't find it.
Could you please add a link in the My Account page? (Could it even be in the sidebar for logged-in subscribers?)
Thanks!
Unread comments (subscribers only) Posted Oct 4, 2010 14:58 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
Agree.
Whenever I don't use that page for a while, I forget how to find it :-)
Unread comments (subscribers only) Posted Oct 4, 2010 15:10 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Navigation is always a pain; if we put in links for everything, there'd be no room for theIn the left column maybe makes sense, though, for this feature. Will think on it.
Unread comments (subscribers only) Posted Oct 4, 2010 16:53 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
One large improvement would be to make the 'C' in 'https://lwn.net/Comments/unread' case insensitive. I can't tell you how many times I've forgotten that, then assumed I'd completely misremembered the URL, then googled for the post announcing it, etc.
Unread comments (subscribers only) Posted Oct 21, 2010 18:28 UTC (Thu) by biged (subscriber, #50106) [Link]
> In the left column maybe makes sense, though, for this feature. Will think on it.
Please do it Jon! I've been using the feature for a couple of weeks and it's a great deal easier to keep up with everything. I only use the RSS feed to remind me that I have hundreds of comments to catch up on - and it doesn't take very long to do that, in the threaded scrollable and killfiled view.
Unread comments (subscribers only) Posted Oct 25, 2010 11:01 UTC (Mon) by biged (subscriber, #50106) [Link]
> In the left column maybe makes sense, though, for this feature. Will think on it.
Just seen the new sidebar link to the Unread comments page: many thanks!
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