Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed?

13 points by esert 13 years ago | 7 comments

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?

kogir 13 years ago |

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...

kogir 13 years ago | |

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

jack-r-abbit 13 years ago | | |

Still broken for me using Google Reader.

esert 13 years ago |

It seems feed items are back to normal now.