I do most of my YCombinator News 'browsing' via Google Reader. After reading an article I often want to come back and read the comments (or add my own), but it's such a pain to have to physically type in the URL, find the article in question, and visit the comments section.
Why not include a "YCombinator Comments" link within the body of the article in the feeds?
There are comments links in the feed (view source on it) but for some reason they get ignored by feed readers. If anyone has a better suggestion, include it in this thread.
Bloglines shows the comments links fine, so not all feed readers ignore them.
What I'd like to see in the feed is some indication that the link points to an external site. We get that locally, but not in the feed.
Edit -- that looks unclear upon rereading. When we see an article in the list on news.ycombinator.com, it looks like this:
Y Combinator a new twist on finding hot companies (mercurynews.com)
The same article in the RSS feed doesn't show the (mercurynews.com) part. It would be convenient to have that in the feed as well, so we know that we need to pop two new tabs for that article, rather than just one.
edit 2: while your making rss changes you could at a link tag to the head so browsers know the rss is there (replacing the "-lt-" and "-gt-"): -lt-link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="/rss" /-gt-
Why not include a "YCombinator Comments" link within the body of the article in the feeds?