Expiring RSS Feeds and Update Frequency Sorting

I'm thinking ahead.

I'm planning on offering per-post comment feeds on some of my blogs, and was thinking it would really nice to have feeds that expire. If I wanted to subscribe to a comments feed on a particular post that was interesting, I could, and then set it to expire 30 days from now when the comment activity is most likely to have died down. Then I wouldn't have to dig it out of my list of 250 feeds when it's only gathering comment spam. If I could specify this in my feed reader that would be really cool.

Also, I would like my feed reader to be able to sort by feed update frequency. I'd love to see a list of my feeds that is organized with the most updated feeds at the top of my list and the deprecated ones pushed down to the bottom. I know that not all good blogs are updating every day, but you're going to have lower priority in my reading if you only update once a month versus someone who's updating every day.

Does this make sense to you rss consumers out there?

Posted by Joe Mullins at June 9, 2004 05:25 PM | TrackBack