RSS Feeds

August 14, 2006 9:14 PM

Per-thread RSS feeds? I'd like to subscribe to my own Axings, especially the one I just made which is unlikely to get very many answers.
posted by evariste to Feature Requests at 9:14 PM (17 comments total)

Oh, and the MeTa posting button says "Preview the link" as if I was posting on MeFi. Also, the "return to post" on favorited comments is borked, because it just tries to go to the comment_id instead of the post_id#comment_id.
posted by evariste at 9:15 PM on August 14, 2006

...and a pony.
posted by evariste at 9:15 PM on August 14, 2006

If you go to your profile and look next to where is says how many questions you've asked, you will find your feed.
posted by tellurian at 9:20 PM on August 14, 2006

Oh, and good voice on that song too.
posted by tellurian at 9:23 PM on August 14, 2006

tellurian-it's a feed for the answers to my AskMe questions? Or just of the questions I've asked? The latter is useless to me; I'm asking for the former. I want to subscribe specifically to the answers that might appear on the thread I just posted.
posted by evariste at 9:23 PM on August 14, 2006

Thanks ^_^
posted by evariste at 9:23 PM on August 14, 2006

Ooops! I see you said 'per-thread'. I'll shutup now.
posted by tellurian at 9:25 PM on August 14, 2006

I don't think it can be done. It would be too complicated, it would probably involve some kitten / bunny sacrifice.
posted by bigmusic at 3:16 AM on August 15, 2006

This has been asked for MANY MANY TIMES. And I found at least one reference where Matt says he plans on doing it eventually.
posted by antifuse at 4:07 AM on August 15, 2006

For now, you can use coComment. They have a handy Firefox extension now, as well as bookmarklets. And also, yes, you can subscribe to an RSS feed of comments made in threads you've commented in and marked as "watching".
posted by Plutor at 4:39 AM on August 15, 2006

Let's see how well coComment works in Opera. Looks like it might work.
posted by bigmusic at 5:09 AM on August 15, 2006

I was about to suggest MetaRSS, but it appears to have gone tits up (which is a shame, it was incredibly handy).

co.mments is an alternative to coComment, and in my experience works a bit better (eg. I just added this thread to both services and coComment failed to display any of the comments left so far in the thread...)
posted by jack_mo at 5:13 AM on August 15, 2006

co.mments works perfectly, much less hassle then the cocomment.
posted by bigmusic at 5:24 AM on August 15, 2006

jack_mo, MetaRSS hasn't gone away. It was just down while Dreamhost had some major problems with the server it was hosted on. I've just brought it back up.
posted by sequential at 6:11 AM on August 15, 2006

jack_mo, MetaRSS hasn't gone away.

Huzzah!
posted by jack_mo at 6:56 AM on August 15, 2006

unlikely to get very many answers.
Not many answers needed eh! and how amazing is Ask MetaFilter.
Oh! and bigmusic - kitten / bunny sacrifice. No problem, fire up the spit and BBQ. My half-sister recently sent me a combined ritual singalong and consumption of sacrifical items pamphlet and a bottle of kickass chilli sauce (not related).
posted by tellurian at 8:52 AM on August 15, 2006

Not many answers needed eh! and how amazing is Ask MetaFilter.

I know. Mind-blowing.
posted by evariste at 1:31 PM on August 15, 2006