I use the favorites feature as a kind of "read later" list (which I never do).
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#22Honestly, 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.
I use it pretty often. There are stories, show HN apps, or just random coding things that I feel I may want to have access to in the future, but are in a domain don't have enough of an interest in to bookmark. I guess if I had a generic "misc." bookmark folder that I didn't care to organize it would go here but I like keeping browser bookmarks minimal.
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#23How many HN members are there?
Is any data available on their locations? Demographics?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I use Pocket which then gets IFTTT'd to Pinboard which archives them for me.
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#25Where can you find the list of most active Hacker News users?
It depends on how you define "active", but if you click on the Lists link at the bottom of this page, and then on Leaders, you find an ordered list of the users with the most points: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders.
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#26Where can you find the list of most active Hacker News users?
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#27Honestly, 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.
On that note, if there's a feature that I would like to see implemented on HN is that favoriting an article shouldn't redirect to the favorites page, instead just working with AJAX (do people still use that term?)
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#28Earlier 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.
I only ever use private browsing and don’t want to have to log in every time I want to upvote someone.
The content is saved unless I explicitly reload or navigate away from the content. So I can close the app and come back to exactly where I was rather than the browser that will not save that state and then try to reload even if I don’t have an internet connection.
Navigation is easier in the app, because every action is clicking anywhere on the post and selecting an action from a large pop up menu. Except for collapsing/expanding which is also easier because you click the post header not just a tiny dash.
Automatic dark/light mode.
Etc. Etc. The app I use isn’t perfect but it’s preferable for lots of reasons to visiting the site directly.
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#29It might be embarrassing to admit but I use 'threads' as my bookmark service - if something was engaging/striking/funny enough for me to comment on, then I want to come back to it.
At some point I will write a thingy to go grab all my old comments but for now HN is more useful to me than pocket / delicious etc.
It turns out to be a useful heuristic - the mental process that says "I should store that for later" fails far more often than "that is something I have something vaguely useful to say about".
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#30Honestly, 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.
It's lower than it could be since only the most recent 30 favourites of the top 10k members are included.
But still lower than expected.