HN via RSS is annoying, this is how it should work

6 pointsfarms14y ago4 comments

I, like many folk here I'm guessing, read HN via RSS.

And, when I wanna click through on a story have this annoying experience whereby.

a. I click through 'comments' and then have to click to the main story and then back to read the comments (sucky)

b. I click on the main story element (all too often) and miss out on the comments here

I'm not suggesting iframes, or anything ;) Oh heck, I might be... but fundamentally I'd like to have one click which gets me to the story and then follows on with the HN comments.

Any chance?

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jaredsohn14y ago· 2 in thread

I don't think this is an RSS-specific issue. If you read Hacker News from the main page, you would experience the same workflow.

farmsOP14y ago

Doesn't make it any less annoying ;)

It'd be nice to have a page + comments somehow.

bmelton14y ago

You're looking for something like the Digg bar, basically. There are other implementations of the same sort of thing, but by and large, people tend to hate them.

ggchappell14y ago

Your problem has nothing to do with RSS. I have it, too, reading HN in the "normal" manner. My solution is, when I go to a story, to open two tabs: one with the story and one with the HN comments. Then I can switch between them.

Still, I would welcome a more automatic solution, but I don't know what it would look like. (The comment by bmelton on the Digg bar is quite correct.)

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