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Re: Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News

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Post by pg »

daeken wrote: post #9
pg wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do it because I find I often edit comments after posting them. Sometimes I have second thoughts and delete comments after saying something unwise.

Out of curiosity, how long is your delay and have you adjusted it over time? It's rare that I will think of some modification to (or the need to retract) a comment in the first minute or two after submitting it, so the only delay I could really see myself making use of would be 4 or 5 minutes. I'd be interested to see how many people use this, how frequently it comes in handy, and whether or not it's been fine-tuned…

2 minutes. I don't think I've ever changed it, since I added the feature.

Re: Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News

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Post by pg »

jacquesm wrote: post #6

That's a neat feature, but it may conflict with 'noprocrast', in that it will drive you mad if you can see that there are replies but you can't read them :) Why 'notifo', why not simply an email address ? That's universal instead of a service that only works with the ipbone.

I never considered it, actually. It was a moot point till a couple months ago because we couldn't send email from the server. Rtm's strategy for security is to install nothing. Eventually I may expand notifications to have more options for type and delivery method.

Re: Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News

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Post by jacquesm »

pg wrote: post #13
jacquesm wrote: post #6

That's a neat feature, but it may conflict with 'noprocrast', in that it will drive you mad if you can see that there are replies but you can't read them :) Why 'notifo', why not simply an email address ? That's universal instead of a service that only works with the ipbone.

I never considered it, actually. It was a moot point till a couple months ago because we couldn't send email from the server. Rtm's strategy for security is to install nothing. Eventually I may expand notifications to have more options for type and delivery method.

Ok, nice.

Everything and their brother supports email, there are so many gateways that once you are at the 'email' stage you can pretty much reach any device.

Re: Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News

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Post by anigbrowl »

dustingetz wrote: post #7
anigbrowl wrote: post #2

I haven't used this service before, but it's a good idea - thank you. Will it also work for submissions? I've noticed lately that the threads page is slow, but clicking on 'submissions' via the profile page is crushingly slow. If I'm away for a day or two it can make it difficult to check up on older threads, or find the link to share at some later date.

meh, put it in another tab and click another HN article

I know someone hiring for a QA position, but somehow I suspect you're not interested.

Re: Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News

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Post by jacquesm »

plinkplonk wrote: post #15

Is this IPhone only? Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone(not to mention, not in the USA).

> Is this IPhone only?

Yep.

> Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone.

My thoughts exactly. There are a lot of mobiles out there that are not iphones, in spite of the iphones popularity.

Re: Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News

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Post by weaksauce »

PG,

Under what conditions will this notify you? I know it will notify you when you are a direct parent to the comment but is there a limit on how deep the nesting is before it stops notifying you? Is every comment below you counted as a response worthy of a notification?

Re: Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News

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Post by jazzychad »

jacquesm wrote: post #6

That's a neat feature, but it may conflict with 'noprocrast', in that it will drive you mad if you can see that there are replies but you can't read them :) Why 'notifo', why not simply an email address ? That's universal instead of a service that only works with the ipbone.

In the Notifo settings, you can set notifications to "Silent" (no audible alert) or "Stealth" (no notification event, just loads in your timeline) on a per-service basis. That could be one way to solve it?
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