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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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