Researching Dynamic Feeds »
I've recently been tossing around some ideas about dynamically creating syndication feeds for the blog. Most specifically I've been trying to figure out how to best keep up with comments on a particular entry. By default, the only solution is to come back and check again later. Even having a new comment list or an entire feed devoted to comments seem to be extreme solutions that wouldn't quite solve the problem.
I read up on the scriptygoddess solution to allow users to subscribe to a comment thread via email. It's a nice solution, but I don't think it's as elegant as I'd like. I don't want to keep an email list on the site. I also get too much email already and would like to cut that down for my readers if possible.
Phil Ringnalda came up with a good solution by creating a feed for each entry, and that feed could include comments. Then users could subscribe to the feed. That's closer to what I'm wanting to accomplish, but it isn't quite there, because it would mean I have to create the feeds in advance. That slows down the build time and also clutters up the site with multiple copies of the same data. Not what I want.
I did some looking into Search.pm a little while back to enable the full word/partial word toggle, and that seemed to work pretty well. I've got some ideas of how I might get this to work, but I think I'm going to need to hammer on it for a little while to get it to work like I want. I'll keep you posted on the status.
