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… is the ability to add (and view) comments for a post.
Right now, I still need to navigate to the website (out of my RSS reader) and comment in the little form at the bottom of the page. That is *so* old-world Web!
Of course, several blogging platforms (Wordpress for one) offer RSS feeds for comments, but having separate feeds is non-optimal for two reasons. One, comments are only useful in the context of the parent post. Viewing it as an independent feed doesn’t fit in with that. Two, it still doesn’t solve the problem of adding comments.
An RSS reader is still a one-way street, funneling content from several websites into one location. Ideally, all of a user’s interactions with a website (read/write/view) could be done via RSS feeds. Because, after all, that was the intent of publishing a feed in the first place - to save the user the tedium of having to actually *visit* the website.
Imagine. Posts. Comments. Advertising. Live chat. All through the RSS reader.