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It's been around for a while, I just got prompted to add it to /lists recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579724 . All: if you see a particularly great comment, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take a look and hopefully add it. We don't want to be the only ones noticing these!
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How are items added to these pages? If it's dynamic-y, is an RSS/Atom feed available that can be auto-updated?
Looks like there's an unmerged PR on the third-party hnrss project that would add this: https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/pull/84
looks like the one they have is different (and at a glance doesn't seem as good):
It's been around for a while, I just got prompted to add it to /lists recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579724 . All: if you see a particularly great comment, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take a look and hopefully add it. We don't want to be the only ones noticing these!
If a link to /classic were on lists I would just start my HN journey there every day.
I recall there used to be a way of getting a snapshot of the way the front-page looked, say, 2 hours ago. Can't find it now. Anyone knows? Edit: Found it at /front but looks like it's a snapshot on a per-day resolution, not hourly or arbitrary For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-09-23
Is there a place where HN publishes some sort of changelog?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140625045123/http://www.ycombi...
It's been around for a while, I just got prompted to add it to /lists recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579724 . All: if you see a particularly great comment, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take a look and hopefully add it. We don't want to be the only ones noticing these!
At some point, /meta may be useful to record comments and threads which lead to HN improvements. A parallel universe to https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented .
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Any chance getting reply notifications into the roadmap?
If I remember correctly it’s a decision not to have reply notifications. The thinking (as I understand it) is they want to discourage back and forth threads between 2 people.
Push notifications are basically a stack-swap op: they push down what you're interested in right now, in favor of something you were interested in a while ago. This is good for engagement, but on HN we're in the sweet spot of not needing to juice engagement. HN is most valuable when it's as good as possible, not when traffic is highest [2], so we try for quality over quantity. (Not that quality is all that high, but that's a different story. [3])
I'm not sure that PG was particularly against notifications because he added this at one point:
Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1203104 - March 2010 (55 comments)
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[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
(p.s. Past posts by me about this - they just say the same thing but I'm listing them to save myself a search in the future:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27901918 (July 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26597139 (March 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937472 (April 2020))
Why am I completely missing the allure of these comments?
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I just looked at Tildes. I can see why people go there. It's not for me. Just like Twitter, just like Reddit, it would encourage me to type the sort of comments that I try not to write on topics I try not to engage in in ways I try to avoid. Your mileage varies of course and I am glad there is a place where you get what you need.
You can filter unwanted topics out. I don't filter many out, but there are a few that I really need to hide to protect my equanimity. One thing I like on Tildes is that people talk about sports on Tildes but not HN and I'd say sports is a mostly harmless topic.
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I just looked at Tildes. I can see why people go there. It's not for me. Just like Twitter, just like Reddit, it would encourage me to type the sort of comments that I try not to write on topics I try not to engage in in ways I try to avoid. Your mileage varies of course and I am glad there is a place where you get what you need.
You can filter unwanted topics out. I don't filter many out, but there are a few that I really need to hide to protect my equanimity. One thing I like on Tildes is that people talk about sports on Tildes but not HN and I'd say sports is a mostly harmless topic.
But that’s my experience not yours of course.
One of the reasons I am on HN is the diminished role of tribal opinions . It’s not that I don’t have them, I just don’t think mine are particularly interesting.