Recently I’ve written about a minor Reddit-Netvibes annoyance: the Reddit RSS feed in a Netvibes box doesn’t let you open the story on Reddit; instead, it skips directly to the source. Because of this, Reddit probably loses quite a lot of pageviews; furthermore, some users, like me, like to read Reddit comments before looking at the source article.
The poll results (the poll is mysteriously gone at the moment, courtesy of PollDaddy) I’ve set up in my article on this subject show that the majority of users prefer Reddit RSS links as they are; but quite a number of you would like to see this changed.
Well, thanks to our reader Aaron Bassett, who is quite a JavaScript wiz, now you can have it both ways. Aaron has created a Firefox bookmarklet for this purpose. Drag it to your toolbar, and click it while on your Netvibes page (with the Reddit RSS feed in it), and all the Reddit links will now lead to the Reddit comments instead of the source article. Thanks, Aaron.
Thanks for the mention
Just thought I’d let you know that the bookmarklet will work not only on Netvibes but anywhere (iGoogle, etc) which uses the default Reddit RSS links.
@Aaron: thanks again.
Or use this pipe as a filter. Works on any reddit feed.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=WFhlZULd2xGFxrGhzKky6g
@engtech: hey, thanks to you, too. Btw, don’t think I’m not reading your extremely useful contributions; I just didn’t have the time to update some older posts.