I suspect the authentication/access is a more troublesome issue than bandwidth and storage…
Discourse already stores reply info at the user level…
And even pledges to give live notifications as such.
It’s about outputting that in a different way.
This isn’t a big enough pain point for me to go through significant trouble.
It was just a question because I’m a) overwhelmed by information, b) trying to push everything into Inoreader (RSS reader and more) and c) a member of a couple of Discourse forums.
I’m more likely to do this workaround…
- Enable Discourse reply notifications as email.
- Set these emails to go to an inbox recognisable by Inoreader.
- These items appear in Inoreader, ostensibly as though they were RSS items.