Substack comments

[emilknievel]

• I have read this document: https://miniflux.app/opinionated.html#feature-request

Unsure if this should be a feature request or a bug but here goes:

I have noticed that articles from Substack don't have a link to the comments. I really appreciate having that option when I'm reading hackernews links etc. and would love for the same to exist for the articles from substack.

Best regards,
Emil

[moppman]

I'm not sure this is feasible.

For hackernews feed items[0], miniflux displays a comments link because it's part of the actual RSS feed.

From the RSS spec:

<comments> is an optional sub-element of <item>

and also here in miniflux' implementation:

v2/internal/reader/rss/rss.go

Line 131 in 8708a10

CommentsURL string `xml:"rss comments"`

Unfortunately, Substack[1] does not provide the <comments> element for their feeds.

That means miniflux would need some custom logic that adds a https://substack_url.com/comments[2] link to each entry.

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[0]: hackernews feed example: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
[1]: random Substack feed example: https://www.astralcodexten.com/feed
[2] random Substack comments link example: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-345/comments

[emilknievel]

Ah, I see. Thank you for the clarification.