A few days ago I asked Manton Reece if he could add a feature that gave me a feed of replies to me on his service, micro.blog.

• I post a lot of stuff to micro.blog via my linkblog RSS feed. Every one of those items can be commented on. But unless I visit micro.blog regularly, I don't see the comments. I guess people have mostly figured out that I'm an absent poster, and don't say anything. Even so, there are some replies. Wouldn't it be great if the responses could show up in my blogroll. And of course if there was an RSS feed of the replies, I would see them when I was looking for something possibly interesting, one of the main reasons I have a blogroll, and keep finding new uses for it.

The feed is there now, I'm subscribed and new comments are posted in the feed and Murphy-willing I will see them. Bing!

• https://micro.blog/feeds/dave/mentions.xml

It's a killer feature for sure. But the best part of it is this — here are two developers working together. This is how the web works when it's working.

BTW a suggestion. Right now the title on my feed is:

• Micro.blog – dave mentions

That's a problem in the limited horizontal space in the blogroll. A more useful title would be:

• "dave" mentions on micro.blog

BTW, if you were building a social network out of RSS this would be an essential feature. It also validates Manton's intuition to allow people like me to be absentee publishers to his community. But the missing piece was allowing the conversation to be two-way, which it now is. That deserves another bing!