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Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use the mobile app and its horrible. I can't often save comments, i can't see my comment threads, ... There are probably many HN features nobody knows about because the UI doesn't expose them.

Why are you not using the website? It works really well on mobile and loads almost instantly. I’ve never seen a reason to use app for HN.

My only issue with the website is the little minimize "-" sign on comments is too small and difficult to reliably hit without zooming in. However as you say everything else works much more smoothly than any of the apps I've tried

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly never even noticed it was a feature until you just mentioned it here.

Ditto, I didn't ever notice it and I've been on here for years.

If you click on the time bit '14 minutes ago' in a users comment you go to a page where you can favourite individual comments too.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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post #2

Honestly, I’m kind of surprised more people do not use the favorite feature to bookmark interesting links / posts. 96 favorites on the most favorited seems really low.

Why would I let my bookmarks get trapped inside the site owner’s database?

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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post #2

Honestly, I’m kind of surprised more people do not use the favorite feature to bookmark interesting links / posts. 96 favorites on the most favorited seems really low.

Because "stories" (i.e. top-level posts) are easily searched and retrieved. Individual comments however might have more value being favorited, and while the numbers are likely similarly low, they would make for a better blog post.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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post #2

Honestly, I’m kind of surprised more people do not use the favorite feature to bookmark interesting links / posts. 96 favorites on the most favorited seems really low.

That's because I already have bookmarks in my browser, marking articles as favorite on HN would give me no value.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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post #2

Honestly, I’m kind of surprised more people do not use the favorite feature to bookmark interesting links / posts. 96 favorites on the most favorited seems really low.

That's because I already have bookmarks in my browser, marking articles as favorite on HN would give me no value.

I download the articles, so I can even read them in the event they are taken offline.
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