I'm sure there's a way to do it but I haven't figured it out.
Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?
#2Not on the website, but it's fairly easy to use the (unofficial) RSS feed to get a timeline of someone's posts: https://hnrss.github.io/
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?
#3What is the difference between following and just going to their submissions & comments pages? Are you looking for a notification when a person adds something new, a "feed" of the latest from your followees?
Just curious what you specifically want to do?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?
#4What is the difference between following and just going to their submissions & comments pages? Are you looking for a notification when a person adds something new, a "feed" of the latest from your followees? Just curious what you specifically want to do?
Some websites have a notification section, and feed it with submissions and/or comments of users you choose
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?
#5I would also like to have longer lived threads, and that users actually discussed, read each others comments, and reply
We need notifications for replies !
So far, posts get posted, end up on the main page, get 300 comments at once from different users, then fall into oblivion. All of that within a few hours
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?
#6Not on the website, but it's fairly easy to use the (unofficial) RSS feed to get a timeline of someone's posts: https://hnrss.github.io/
that's wonderful, thanks!
I use this tool to get a user's posts as an RSS feed and subscribe to them in Feedly. It also has other search and filter terms:
Example: http://hnapp.com/?q=author%3Anickjj
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?
#7One of the things I like most about HN is there is not, to my knowledge, any "social" features like this. As mentioned by other comments there are possibly third party UIs/clients that offer a similar feature set. Easiest solution that comes to mind is writing down a username and just checking in when desired.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?
#8Given the post here a few weeks ago about tracking people through writing style I actually wonder what the point of usernames is.
Maybe it should be possible to have a username so people can activity follow you and see other submissions?
And maybe it would be nice if each time you posted it generated a unique username so that it's anonymous? You could still keep e-mail registration/verification. And perhaps still give moderators access to the master accounts in case they need to see if a user is constantly promoting a company or constantly engaging in anti-social commenting.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?
#9I made a service back in the day that would let you sign up for accounts and receive emails if they posted/commented.
Shared it on HN and it was met with a yawn.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?
#10I would also like to have longer lived threads, and that users actually discussed, read each others comments, and reply We need notifications for replies ! So far, posts get posted, end up on the main page, get 300 comments at once from different users, then fall into oblivion. All of that within a few hours
Agree. It’s hard to have a conversation here, but I don’t know exactly why. I suggested once that if usernames were just bolder it would make a difference. Avatars seem like fluff, but I think they really do make it easier to spot a familiar “face”.
Oh, also… I do check “threads” sometimes if I want to keep up with a conversation.