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Techblog: Consider removing RSS discovery for Current Article Comments feed
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When popping an article or category in an RSS reader to discover feed(s), it currently promotes the Comments feed which perhaps isn't so useful / distracting.

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For my own WordPress blogs, this was always part of my functions.php boilerplate:

mytheme/functions.php
add_filter('feed_links_show_comments_feed', '__return_false');

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Krinkle renamed this task from Techblog: Consider removing promotion of Comments feed to Techblog: Consider removing promotion of Comments RSS feed.Dec 8 2025, 12:56 AM
Krinkle renamed this task from Techblog: Consider removing promotion of Comments RSS feed to Techblog: Consider removing RSS discovery for Current Article Comments feed.
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The Tech Blog has been moved to Diff: https://diff.wikimedia.org/tech-blog/

More details in the post here: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/05/28/a-diff-tech-blog/

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