Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by brett on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @03:10PM (#372)

You wrote on reddit that an RSS feed is coming. If you're prioritizing that would be my first choice.

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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by akkartik on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @03:27PM (#373)

Counterpoint to all the calls for an RSS feed: Do others find reddit's front-page feed useful? Nobody at a social news site has yet figured out how to do the RSS feed right, IMO. I find myself using my browser to read reddit a lot more than my aggregator. For example, it's hard to capture the action on a comment thread, or to create filtered feeds by user. Here's one idea: http://features.reddit.com/info/xjvr/comments If user-specific feeds are infeasible (for server bandwidth or computation reasons) it seems RSS feeds are low-priority.

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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by danw on Thursday February 22, 2007 @05:23PM (#556)

I would quite like RSS feeds.

Specifically I would like an RSS feed for individual users so that if I like all the links submited by a particular user I can follow them easily.

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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by xirium on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @08:53AM (#214809)

As a stopgap measure, access http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... and then subscribe to the RSS feed.

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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by wbornor on Thursday February 22, 2007 @06:07PM (#562)

I read reddit almost exclusively through their RSS feed. Its a critical function for any site... what site owner wouldn't want to broadcast to an Opt-In audience of passionate users?

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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by bootload on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @07:19PM (#425)

'... Nobody at a social news site has yet figured out how to do the RSS feed right, IMO ...' How about RSS feeds for individual users comments? Who likes checking into 'roach motels'? I don't. The number of sites I've added content /., use.perl, perlmonks, reddit only a few allow you to extract *your* insight. '... RSS feeds are low-priority. ...' possibly true, but why should you have to go back to a site/page when you can just grab the data & use it as you like?

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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by mogston on Saturday February 24, 2007 @08:46AM (#873)

RSS was actually the first feature i looked for - so very glad to see it working. I use netvibes to scan around 50 feeds every morning and afternoon, so the availability of the feed is critical if i am to monitor what's posted. Thanks!

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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by pg on Saturday March 03, 2007 @06:56PM (#2069)

done

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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by etfb on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @05:38PM (#383701)

Half-done, at best. Just getting a title is not much use: RSS feeds are supposed to save you time, and give you all the content where you want it (ie in your reader) not just give you a bunch of links that are no different than the HN "new" page.

Or is there a third-party technology that I'm missing that will solve that flaw?

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