Ask HN: Is there some way for using Hacker News with a “mark as read” function?

Post by gabrielsroka » Sat, May 01, 2021, 10:20 PM UTC

wiki_me wrote: post #10

gabrielsroka wrote: post #9

Yes, I emailed the mods and got added to the alpha program for this in April 2020 [0]. When I visit a page a second time, any new comments have an orange bar next to them. I don't find it very useful, but I'm sure the team would take your feedback. Eg, I visit a page for the first time and it has 100 comments. I come back later and it has 103 comments. I have to scroll through the entire page to find the 3 new commen…

Is the alpha stable? can i opted in and out easily like the reddit beta? tildes.net and some firefox extention (for reddit) implements it this way. It can still be problematic, if i go to a thread with 100 comments and read it, come back and there are another 100 comments i might not want to read them all in one sit (e.g. because it is late at night). It's interesting that all these "modern" platforms still don't hav…

Post by password4321 » Sat, May 01, 2021, 11:46 PM UTC

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Post by rasz » Tue, May 04, 2021, 2:34 PM UTC