I'm not shure if this is a feature for drupal.org or drupal core, but I put it here.

It would be tremendiously usefull if it was possible to syndicate comments of a node. Right now it's a pain in the arse to track replies on the site. This could of course be made with email but I prefer RSS and this would be a simple implementation.

Their is already a module for this, Comment RSS: http://drupal.org/project/commentrss

Altough it works as expected a more clean implementation would be to enable to write /feed at the end of the node-url, eg. http://drupal.org/node/2344/feed to syndicate comments for that node.

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Bèr Kessels’s picture

Bèr Kessels commented

I have reread your post three times but fail to see your request.
Do you want commentRSS to be extended or modified? then please post a question there.
If you want commentRSS to be installed on drupal.org, please add a littlebit of information about that that module, as well as a more detailed post on what benefits and downsides it has.

With kind regards,
BER

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chx commented

Comment RSS lets you subscribe to nodes and their comments. Subscription(s) module will handle this but *no way* until we moved to the new servers. Already RSS beats to death our poor server.

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anders.fajerson commented

Looking at the newly released subscription module (http://drupal.org/node/29868) it only seems to be e-mail related.

I also feel that comment feeds should be part of the core comment.module, so I made a feaure request: http://drupal.org/node/30086

Alone or combined with tools like http://www.rssmix.com/ or http://www.feedshake.com this could be a powerfull tool to keep track on discussions on the site. And hopefully the new server will cope with it.

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boris mann commented
Status: Active » Postponed

My eventual goal is to see subscriptions.module or something similar serve as a notification framework. RSS would be one method of notification.

Users would subscribe to taxonomy, nodes, people, etc. etc. and would choose their method of notification. For RSS, this would enable a global, user-based feed of all "stuff" that people want to be notified of. So, a user would subscribe to a single feed -- e.g. subscriptions/[uid]/feed.

So...lots of work to do on this, but this needs to be done the right way, in a scalable fashion. An automatic feed per node would generate a lot of unused feeds for the number of pieces of content that Drupal.org has. Setting to "postponed" until we have code for this.

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anders.fajerson commented

An automatic feed per node would generate a lot of unused feeds for the number of pieces of content that Drupal.org has.

Isn't a rss feed just a different "view", comparable with the "printer-friendly version" in the handbook? I can't really see the problem with unused feeds in this context, or am I missing something?

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yhager commented
Component: web site » Site organization

I guess the new server is up already.. so I am just re-raising this issue. I would really like to see RSS for comments in an issue. It will eliminate the need to leave unhelpful 'Subscribing' comments.

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killes@www.drop.org commented
Status: Postponed » Active

The problem I see with feeds (or rather: feed readers) is that they tend will poll every ten minutes or so for new content. This might be a performance problem.

So, somebody should check the performance implications.

And I'd also want to see a security review of the module.

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catch
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Note that this is something which might eventually be handled best by my.drupal.org as part of the drupal.org redesign.

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tvn commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Closing old issues.