add the poster information to community rss feeds

[ratcreature]

Title:
add the poster information to community rss feeds

Area:
communities, rss

Summary:
When I read a feed of a community I would like to be able to see the user who posted as well as the community name. It seems that this info is not in the RSS feed, and I guess DW can't do anything to make it appear in the LJ feeds, but it doesn't seem to be included in the community feeds originating on DW either, and I think it should be, so people reading communities offsite could see the posters.

Description:
In other feeds from blogs I've sometimes seen a "posted by" line, and in addition to the feed name I don't know whether that is a formal field in the format, but something like that would be nice to have in community feeds, so that readers could tell the poster.

Currently community feeds are for me more like alerts, because I always have to click to see who the poster was, even if I don't want to comment. So I suppose a drawback might be that people like me who like to know the poster are less likely to click to the original feed to find out, but communities concerned about their traffic can change the feed setting to just a teaser blurb or summary iirc, so that would be more straightforward to attract clicks, and otherwise I can't think of anything negative to come from this.

Poll #6470 add the poster information to community rss feeds

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
31 (67.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.2%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (28.3%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.2%)

Comments

[turlough]

But isn't this already the case? If you check bandslashmania_feed for example the poster's name is at the top of each entry.

[denise]

I'm pretty sure ratcreature is talking about adding in that information to the feeds that we publish, so the information will be there when sie reads DW community feeds in an outside feedreader!

[turlough]

Ah, I see. *changes vote*

[ratcreature]

Yes. I want that people who for example follow a feed from a DW community on LJ may see not just the comm name but the poster name. I would love it if feeds I read from LJ here on DW were to show that too, but I assume DW can't do anything about how LJ comms format their feeds.
ETA: actually it seems that in feeds from LJ this now appears after all (is this new? I remember submitting this suggestion because I was annoyed about a feed from LJ here on my DW reading list, and then saw that feeds from here didn't show a poster either...)

[pauamma]

But as far as I can tell, that information is already there.Looking at the RSS feed for dw_suggestions (http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/data/rss) I see the following in the data for this entry:

<lj:poster>ratcreature</lj:poster>

and for the Atom feed (http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/data/atom):

<author>

<name>RatCreature</name>

</author>
<dw:poster user="ratcreature"/>

Perhaps the problem is in what the recipient site expects, not (or not only) what Dreamwidth provides?

[azurelunatic]

I think I remember seeing this in a recent code tour, actually. So it may be newly implemented.