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Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed?

13 points by esert ↗ HN
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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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.
samspenc
Ditto, not working for me in Feedly either.
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.
esert
It seems feed items are back to normal now.