[wp-testers] Comments RSS Failed To Feed
Roy Schestowitz
wp-lowtraffic at schestowitz.com
Mon Aug 21 10:12:00 GMT 2006
___/ On Mon 21 Aug 2006 07:11:39 BST, [ Mark Jaquith ] wrote : \___
> On Aug 20, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Austin Shaythong wrote:
>
>> I had inserted Mark Jaquith's patch and yet the page worked but my
>> link "http://quaertas.ej.am/?feed=comments-rss2" had also failed. I
>> have posts in my site.
>
> ?feed=comments-rss2 is supposed to show the *comments* feed (it does in
> 2.0.x, and with my patch, it does in 2.1). Your feed is blank, which
> means you must have no comments.
I happened to notice that the same behaviour is inherent in
several CMS's, but while it's reasonable to return a blank
feed (e.g. this does not add clutter to aggregators), it
would be nice to have some anchor/placeholder if no item is
found... in comments/posts/category/search/other... Topix
does that, for example...
I know this might lead to problems and violate some rules,
but I just find it hard to subscribe to feeds that are empty
and thus invalid. Maybe an itch that's never worth
scratching... *smile*
Best wishes,
Roy
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