THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Hmm. It doesn’t work exactly how I would expect. When a post gets its first comment, it appears at the top of the RSS feed (the link from the RSS goes to the comments version of the thread, though not directly to the specific comment). But when a post gets further comments, it is not bumped up to the top of the RSS feed, like it is in the Latest Comments box on the top right of the blog. Ideally posts would get bumped on each new comment, and the RSS would link to the specific comment and/or contain the text of the comment.

Actually, scratch that. The RSS feed itself seems to mirror the Latest Comments box, with threads getting bumped to the top when they get a new comment. The issue I’m having is with Google Reader, which does not bump the thread to the top on new comments, probably because it doesn’t see it as a “new” RSS entry. I don’t know if this issue would be solved if the RSS linked to specific comments rather than just the main thread page.

Linking to specific comment can’t happen.

However, I would have hoped it bumped like “Lastest Comments”.  I’m kinda stuck a bit with EE, so I’ll have to see if I can work it out…

Hmmm… I’ll see if I can trick Google Reader, but changing the “title” it sees (by including the timestamp in the title).  I’ll play around with it.

I think the issue is number 4 here:

http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97875

Well, let’s see.  I changed the title to include the timestamp, so this way, it’s always a new title.  I did a refresh of Google Reader, and things look good (so far).

I’m still having the same issue in Google Reader. Probably not worth going to too much trouble to fix though.