(Inspired by discussions like this one, but also a thing that I’ve thought for a while would be a good idea.)
Currently, there’s a single “recent comments” feed, which includes comments posted to any post—frontpage, Meta, personal blogs, Alignment Forum… even drafts! (The last of which, I assume, is merely a bug.)
It would be cool if there were multiple comments feeds, one for each view, viz.:
- Recent comments on all posts
- Recent comments on frontpage posts only
- Recent comments on Alignment Forum posts only
- Recent comments on Meta posts
It’s probably a lot of work for you guys to implement a UI for this, so I can totally understand it not being priority, but would it be possible to implement this feature in the backend and expose it in the API?
Note: The comment link in the post seems broken from LW. Maybe that's a GreaterWrong specific link syntax, but LW uses hashtags with comment ids, instead of a
/comments/<commentId>syntax.Yep, API wise this should be relatively straightforward, though it will require doing some database mutations, so it might take us a bit longer than usual. In particular, we don't know from just looking at a comment whether the post it was posted to was on the frontpage, or in meta, or anywhere else, so we will have to add some additional metadata there.