RSS feed for threads and comments

[djyde]

I've been thinking how to notify the commenter (#78) when they have new reply without collect their email address, since few people are willing to provide their email address in an "untrusted" form.

A pull-based subscription may be a good solution. Commenters can subscribe new reply instead of we pushing to them. One of the most common way is RSS.

We can provide rss feed for every comment:

https://cusdis.com/api/open/comments/{commentId}/rss.xml

This feed contains all replies in this comment. And the user can copy comment's rss feed in the widget.

My only concern is will users really add this rss feed to their rss reader for getting new reply notification?

[candideu]

Comment RSS feed could also be useful as a widget on a user's website that shows "Latest Comments" and a link to the article where the comment was made:

[Pathsis]

I've been thinking how to notify the commenter (#78) when they have new reply without collect their email address, since few people are willing to provide their email address in an "untrusted" form.

A pull-based subscription may be a good solution. Commenters can subscribe new reply instead of we pushing to them. One of the most common way is RSS.

We can provide rss feed for every comment:

https://cusdis.com/api/open/comments/{commentId}/rss.xml

This feed contains all replies in this comment. And the user can copy comment's rss feed in the widget.

My only concern is will users really add this rss feed to their rss reader for getting new reply notification?

I think this is a good idea, but it's not as convenient as checking a checkbox as you mentioned last time.

[sajeshcherian]

I, for one, would love to have a comment feed than stuffing my inbox with notifications. I have enough of them already. It will interest those who are subscribing via feeds already.