[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #6719: RSS feed endpoint for user replies are empty

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#6719: RSS feed endpoint for user replies are empty
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 Reporter:  champsupertramp  |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement      |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:
Component:  Support Forums   |   Keywords:  needs-patch
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 If the RSS feed for user replies is empty, why does the endpoint still
 exist?

 Quoting what @Otto's response via slack:

 {{{
 All endpoints always exist. That's just how the feed endpoints work in
 WordPress. (edited)
 9:51
 The feed isn't "disabled" for replies. That would imply it was intentional
 or done by design. No, the replies list is just not written in such a way
 as to have the feed apply to it.
 9:52
 In WordPress whenever you have a feed it always applies to the main query
 of the page. For example, if you look at a tag archive. The main query
 returns the list of posts that have a tag. The feed therefore is just
 another way of looking at that page. It generates from the main query
 only.
 9:54
 Whoever wrote that reply page, if and when, did not write it such that the
 main query was the page's main content. Thus the automatic feed generation
 doesn't work for that, because it's not the main query that's returning
 the replies. (edited)
 9:56
 If it is desirable in any way to have that be an actual feed, then it
 would need to be rewritten to have that list of posts be returned as the
 main query. In other words, make a meta ticket about it.
 }}}


 For Example
 https://wordpress.org/support/users/champsupertramp/replies/feed

 Let's say it is disabled for tracking user replies, isn't this possible to
 scrape the page directly without the RSS feed endpoint?  Why not just
 support the user replies via RSS Feed?

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