Option to exclude forum comments from global RSS feed
aymerick - May 31, 2007 - 15:48
| Project: | Comment RSS |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | by design |
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Description
Ones may want to exlude forum comments (ie. forum topics replies) from the global comment RSS feed because they are slightly different from 'articles comments' (well... that's my case).
Here is a patch that adds an admin setting that permits to do that.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| commentrss_noforum.patch | 1.87 KB |
#1
I suggest making this functionality a default behavior and not offering an option. Forum threads are effectively different than blog comments, for example, and they should have their own feed format which initially includes the original node.
Additionally, I have just submitted a patch in another issue which adds a settings page at admin/content/commentrss because node rss settings are under admin/content and not under admin/settings so that will have to be decided before both patches could go in.
#2
This is effectively fixed by the "make comment feeds optional" patch, with per-node type feeds enabled and site-wide feeds disabled, in a more generally applicable fashion. Ref. issue http://drupal.org/node/156666. Recommending that this be won't-fixed.
#3
I have added settings which give the ability to select which comment feeds are published. If this feature is still needed, please provide a use case.
For example, should "site-wide" comments be constrained to comments of nodes which appear at /node (e.g., only "promoted" nodes)? I would rather avoid overly granular configurations like specifying which node types include comments in the (possibly misnamed) site-wide feed.
#4
> If this feature is still needed, please provide a use case.
I've got a very similar situation. On my site everybody registered (including spam bots, heh) can have an own blog, start forum topics or comment on those. While all these might be interesting to some visitors, the main feeds have to include selected nodes only and comments on those.
For my case, I would like to have a comments feed for all the promoted nodes. However, I realize that other sites might have slightly different requirements. I believe that:
1) Having comments feed for the promoted nodes only would already cover the needs of a vast majority of web-sites
2) In general the best approach would be to allow a comments feed for any view
Best regards,
Artem.
#5
I'd like to keep the simplicity of the module, so it is going to keep providing feeds for core built-in stuff. Core does not have "feeds of nodes except forums", so commentrss does not going to have a corresponding comment feed. Views on the other hand has this feature, and the Drupal 6 views module coming up has fine features to generate lists of comments even in feed format based on whatever (node) criteria you have. So there is no point whatsoever to implement this in the D6 version. For the D5 version, I tried to look into it, but it does not look simple at all (also talked to Earl Miles, and he suggested some grand hacks only).