Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed?

[esert]

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]

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]

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

[jack-r-abbit]

Still broken for me using Google Reader.

[jack-r-abbit]

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.

[samspenc]

Yes fixed for me as well!

[samspenc]

Ditto, not working for me in Feedly either.

[esert]

It seems feed items are back to normal now.