One of the things I positively like about Hacker News is the complete lack of notifications or tools to make it easy to see when someone has replied to me.
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#12How do you manage throttling?
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#13So this will not show me replies to my comments, it is just showing comments with different layout? It's not very clear from title and description.
I am following my comments through threads button in top, though it's not so easy to notice which have new reply and everything need to be checked manually. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=petodo
I wish there was some service where you enter your HN username and it would show you newest replies to all your comments.
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#14One of the things I positively like about Hacker News is the complete lack of notifications or tools to make it easy to see when someone has replied to me.
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#15nice :) thanks for making this for us
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#16So this will not show me replies to my comments, it is just showing comments with different layout? It's not very clear from title and description. I am following my comments through threads button in top, though it's not so easy to notice which have new reply and everything need to be checked manually. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=petodo I wish there was some service where you enter your HN username and i…
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#17One of the things I positively like about Hacker News is the complete lack of notifications or tools to make it easy to see when someone has replied to me.
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Well, for me I don't want anything like that. I think the site works better without becoming like other sites with all the bells and whistles. But each to his own.
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#18I use https://hnrss.org/replies?id=timvisee in an RSS reader (Thunderbird in my case). Then I get alerted for comments. Much better!
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#19One of the things I positively like about Hacker News is the complete lack of notifications or tools to make it easy to see when someone has replied to me.
Hey it’s that “threads” link in the header.
You’re welcome.
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#20So this will not show me replies to my comments, it is just showing comments with different layout? It's not very clear from title and description. I am following my comments through threads button in top, though it's not so easy to notice which have new reply and everything need to be checked manually. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=petodo I wish there was some service where you enter your HN username and i…
A consequence of the current system is that it's impractical for an active user to have long-running conversations. As soon as a comment of mine has scrolled off the first page of threads, i'll almost never see a reply to it.
I would want to be very confident that this was a bad thing before "fixing" it. HN's current culture must inevitably be shaped by this effect. How would it change if it was removed? I'm not sure i want HN to become another forum where pairs of people get into long back-and-forths.