Popularity Context

October 1, 2008 4:43 PM

Pony: Can the popular comments RSS feed include the title of the threads to which those comments were posted?

Currently, entries in the popular comments RSS feed appear as follows:

By PosterName in MeFi
by PosterName
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Could we include the thread title? It would give some extra context for people who read the comments directly in their RSS reader...

By PosterName in "SLYT lolcat PoliticsFilter Blue" [MeFi]
by PosterName
Yada yada yada yada yada yada yada.

Only counterargument I can see (other than it being yet another feature to implement) is that a lot of people put jokes in the title. But even then, you could recognize threads you're familiar with so you don't have to click through to the actual comment if you already have the context.

Thanks!

posted by Riki tiki to feature requests at 4:43 PM (6 comments total)

Oh, that's a good idea. +1 from me.
posted by delfuego at 5:08 PM on October 1, 2008

Yep, I updated the feed to include titles.
posted by pb at 10:19 PM on October 1, 2008

Rockin! Much obliged, pb!
posted by Riki tiki at 10:43 PM on October 1, 2008

Thank you!
posted by bluishorange at 7:47 AM on October 2, 2008

Thanks!

(I asked for this 2 months ago)
posted by jpdoane at 1:53 PM on October 7, 2008

Whoa. I'm glad I somehow missed your thread when I tried to search for previous coverage of this topic, or I wouldn't have made the new one.

Good idea, jpdoane!
posted by Riki tiki at 2:01 PM on October 7, 2008