A way to get notified of replies to your comments on hacker news

#1

Post by etherealG » Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 3:14 PM UTC

add http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=your_username_here to google reader to create an rss feed from it. Then subscribe to that feed however you like to follow it and be notified of updates. yay.

Re: A way to get notified of replies to your comments on hacker news

#2

Post by etherealG » Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 3:19 PM UTC

testing this here :)

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#3

Post by etherealG » Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 3:22 PM UTC

damn, sorry guys, seems like "Google was not able to access this page to check for updates. This page may be unavailable or have other restrictions that prevent Google from getting updates."

perhaps it will work later.

Re: A way to get notified of replies to your comments on hacker news

#4

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 3:23 PM UTC

etherealG wrote: post #2

testing this here :)

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Re: A way to get notified of replies to your comments on hacker news

#5

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 3:24 PM UTC

etherealG wrote: post #3

damn, sorry guys, seems like "Google was not able to access this page to check for updates. This page may be unavailable or have other restrictions that prevent Google from getting updates." perhaps it will work later.

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Re: A way to get notified of replies to your comments on hacker news

#6

Post by tcarnell » Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 3:42 PM UTC

Femtoo.com - works everytime - it's how I track comments etc.

I also use it to track new answers for 'StackOverflow' questions.

You can even 'publish' a tracker and anyone can subscribe without requiring an account.

Just created a Femtoo Tracker for this page, this URL will tell you how many comments have been posted (will get updated every 30 mins):

http://api.femtoo.com/trackers/content/?trackerKey=f24b684a9...

too cool?

"Femtoo - Reference any part of any web page by URL"

Re: A way to get notified of replies to your comments on hacker news

#7

Post by tcarnell » Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 3:45 PM UTC

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077411

Re: A way to get notified of replies to your comments on hacker news

#8

Post by raganwald » Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 4:11 PM UTC

etherealG wrote: post #2

testing this here :)

PING!

Re: A way to get notified of replies to your comments on hacker news

#9

Post by aj » Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 5:41 PM UTC

However, it will not notify of comments to entries that you post but only replies to your comments correct? So it's not a complete solution unfortunately

Re: A way to get notified of replies to your comments on hacker news

#10

Post by cmanfu » Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 6:14 PM UTC

or you could use http://followthatpage.com/, although that polls for changes at most frequently only once an hour