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I hope not; it seems woefully inefficient. Hopefully, there is a smarter, simpler way to do this.
Point your RSS reader at https://hnrss.org/ , namely https://hnrss.org/replies?id=redonkulus
I have this extension that highlights any new comments, which makes it a lot easier. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
It's inefficient on purpose, as otherwise it's easier to get into flame-wars, or something like that (paraphrased from a dang/pg comment somewhere, sometime).
Personally I just check the /threads page whenever I have time, and check for new comments. Sometimes I spot new replies to my comments because I come back to the whole comment section of a interesting submission to check in on other ongoing discussions.
Yes.
I hope not; it seems woefully inefficient.
It's that way by design, as I understand it. Pg wasn't trying to create a traditional discussion forum when he built HN and from what I can recall reading/hearing, he intentionally did not implement reply notifications and suchlike.
That said, there have been various 3rd party "HN notifier" services over the years, like hnnotify.com (or something like that) and hnreply.com (or similar). Not sure if any of those are still up and running or not though.