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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.
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Actually I wouldn't have integrated Notifo into HN if I didn't think it deserved it on its own merits. HN is a labor of love for me; I wouldn't integrate random stuff into it just because founders asked me to. Out of 172 companies we've funded, I've only integrated 2 functionally into HN: Clickpass and Notifo, both because I thought they were useful to users.
And webmynd.
Why not notify people through Twitter? From Twitter I can get alerts to a regular mobile, not to mention to a Twitter client.
Fair point. In fact, why own the client at all? Be the middleman, and sent to twitter, facebook, hot social network of 2011, etc, instead of messing with clients. Lowers adoption barriers considerably.
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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…
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.
On a related note, your comment is over a day old now - normally I wouldn't reply so long after the fact. Since I know you have notifications on, late replies are now worthwhile. There's a chance this feature can actually affect the discussion here by allowing people to ponder a while before responding. In the past you could only wait so long before the thread left the front page and everyone moved on; things were likely written in haste.
What stops me from putting another user's notifo username? Most users use the same username on various sites...
I think it would pay to encourage users to use a shared secret in place of a username, though, since it's not going to be visible to anyone else, and so is really more of a "stream name."
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Check out notify.io (open source and has support for OSX, Windows, Ubuntu and Android)
Thank you. My phone is the last place I want to get such notifications. I occasionally read HN on my G1, but doing much of any sort of reading or replying on a phone is a half-assed experience. I'd much prefer to get E-mail (which, surprise! I can read on my phone if I so choose) or perhaps an RSS feed (which, again, I can read on my phone, if I so choose). About the only reason I can see for making such things an "a…
I admit, though: an RSS -> iPhone push notification gateway would be more useful. (Though as far as I've seen, none of the iPhone RSS clients want to support Push, because none of their servers could handle the load. It would really just need to be a part of PubSubHubbub infrastructure.)