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Ask HN: How do you get notified of reply comments on HN?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified of reply comments on HN?
#12There is a Telegram bot that worked fine till date. I found it on HN itself.
An unrelated tip, an official Gmail bot exists in Telegram for those who want to declutter ads and stuff - https://t.me/gmailbot
Unfortunately, it goes radio silent on recursively discussed replies between any other people who took heated debate under your reply.
I hope there is also a ChatGPT service which summarizes each HN comment with its own input and backing up with citation of its criticism/opinion. That makes spirit of HN eat magic mushrooms and steroids. To avoid it being an intrusive eye-sore, we should hover over a symbol at the end of each comment which pops up those paragraphs.
I can only imagine!
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified of reply comments on HN?
#13> it seems woefully inefficient.
Why receiving some non-sensual comments in a random time of a day do you consider efficient? Don't you have a life with more important events than some random dude's comment? Every time you are receiving the beep you are inevitably losing some context, maybe even get thrown off from "a stream".
For me reading HN is OK only before and after work, not instead. Maybe I would like to read some reactions to my ancient comments and I do not know where I have aquired additional +10 karma points over the last night, but theese are so unimportant things in my life that I will not lose anything if I dot't see it eventually.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified of reply comments on HN?
#14You can't, and it's intentional. They say getting notified of responses increases flamewars. I think it makes a lot of sense - if people can't talk to each other they can't get into flame wars. I think they should just go all the way and remove comments altogether.
You absolutely can via third-party services.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified of reply comments on HN?
#15I don't. Whenever I come back to HN, I may click on my username at the top right and see if my latest comments were replied. If I have the time to reply then I reply, otherwise no reply is ever attempted.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified of reply comments on HN?
#16I don't.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified of reply comments on HN?
#17Yeah, I do it that way. It's a feature, not a bug. I turn off push notifications on all other social media too.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified of reply comments on HN?
#18HNnotify is a free service