[Social-discuss] Re: Building useful export functionality

[Nick]

Quoth Nick:
> I'm working on building good, useful export tools into a blogging 
> platform at present. The export is just Atom, which is nice and 
> easy to work with.
> 
> The post URI would work... (snip)

I mean URL here, I think...

> Also, exporting comments is something I'm not sure how to handle.  
> The comments in a sense belong to their respective posters, so I 
> wonder whether it's reasonable to include atom xml of comment 
> threads belonging to a post in a grand 'export' function? Any 
> thoughts on what the right thing to do here is?

A better, more distributed approach could be to enable commenters to 
export their own comments tied to the post URI. The server with the 
post would still need to know about the comments, however, so that 
it could link to the comment URIs (which could themselves be on any 
server). Other thoughts on such a system?

Here I'm mainly concerned with what would be most useful and 
reasonable as an export format, but ideas about future directions of 
blogging platforms inevitably play into that.


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