Thursday, January 26, 2006

Comments RSS feed

Since Blogger continues to ignore my plaintive requests for the most useful feature any blogging software can have, I made a hack based on suggestions made elsewhere.

If you'd like to subscribe to a comment RSS feed (if you posted a comment and want to know if there were any responses, this is particularly handy), throw this link into your blogreader. It's not has snazzy as the kinds of feeds my wordpress brethren can generate (the feed is not separated by post, for example), but it's handy. Of course, if you always read this blog directly on the web and/or don't know what RSS is, ignore this message.
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8 comments:

  1. Could you please give a pointer on how to set up such a feed?

    Posted by Harsha

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  2. And more curiously why do you not just switch to Wordpress? 

    Posted by D

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  3. Harsha: the basic idea is to set up a new Blogger blog that has "post-by-email" enabled. Then, in the first blog (that you want the comment feed for), set up an email address that all comments are mailed to.

    Now in principle the email used in the first blog should be the 'post-by-email' address for the second one. For some reason this doesn't work: blogger doesn't accept a.b@c.com formatted addresses. so I did all of this via a gmail account with an appropriate filter set so that all mails being sent from Blogger get forwarded to the 'post-by-email' address of the second blog.

    Anon(D): I could, but I don't know of any place that supports public wordpress blogs (I can't host it at my home page because of firewall issues) 

    Posted by Suresh

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  4. suresh,
    wordpress.com allows anybody to signup . But, the templates cant be tampered with.Comments feed is available.

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  5. well, i should have also added that I am too lazy to change things over 

    Posted by Suresh

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  6. well, you should take a look at WordPress.com, it allows you to painlessly import your Blogger blog to your WordPress.com blog & is certainly better than Blogger, & now also supports easy creation of multiple blogs!! 

    Posted by Amit

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  7. you should check out Storago.com . You can see it working on my site. 

    Posted by David

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  8. Thanks for this, this was a great tip. I've set up something similar in my blog and it works perfectly.
    Regards. 

    Posted by spade

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