Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed?

Posted by esert on Saturday June 15, 2013 @02:51PM
from the self-post dept.

Until sometime yesterday (maybe a little earlier) HN RSS feed items had links to the submitted urls while there was a separate link to the comments. It was very convenient to check interesting items from an rss reader.

Now both of them linking to the comments and I can't check the submitted link without first opening the comments.

Can we go back to the earlier rss feed style?

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Re:Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed? by kogir on Saturday June 15, 2013 @04:03PM (#5886122)

What reader are you using?

The feed complies with RSS 2.0[1]. Specifically, for each item:

  title: The HN title
  link: The submitted link
  comments: The HN comments link
  guid: unique per item
  description: html linking to comments

Since the link hasn't changed, I'm unsure why you're having problems.

[1] http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#hrelementsOfLtitem...

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Re:Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed? by kogir on Saturday June 15, 2013 @04:20PM (#5886177)

Oops, turns out that some readers used the guid instead of the link if it was a URL. Fixed?

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Re:Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed? by jack-r-abbit on Monday June 17, 2013 @01:30PM (#5894531)

Still broken for me using Google Reader.

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Re:Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed? by jack-r-abbit on Monday June 17, 2013 @07:03PM (#5896546)

I just got a flood of updates in Reader that are dupes of what I had already seen... but this time the links are correct. Not sure what's going on but I'm happy to have my feed back to normal.

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Re:Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed? by samspenc on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @06:43PM (#5902535)

Yes fixed for me as well!

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Re:Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed? by samspenc on Monday June 17, 2013 @02:53PM (#5895147)

Ditto, not working for me in Feedly either.

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Re:Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed? by esert on Saturday June 15, 2013 @04:45PM (#5886246)

It seems feed items are back to normal now.

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