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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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#22One 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.
I do like how there's no "badge" indicating new replies attached to the "threads" link.
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#23One 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.
Gotta love when you see something change and have no idea why, but you've conditioned yourself to like it.
A rare occurrence with technology.
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#24One 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.
Different beast.
But https://www.hnreplies.com works fairly well.
I have found that it forgets about me, after a while, so I stopped using it.
Every now and then, one of my downvote stalkers likes to go to an old comment I made, and write an insult. I assume that because the comment is so old, the post defies the Banhammer.
I don't mind missing those, and I guess it makes them feel better about themselves, so it's all good.
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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.
threads page is good enough if you are eager to check replies. However a little bell icon in the top right conner wont hurt. Might save a click or 2.
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#26One 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.
Gotta love when you see something change and have no idea why, but you've conditioned yourself to like it. A rare occurrence with technology.
Tbf he just didn’t mention the reason he liked it, but to me it’s obvious. When you don’t have near real time notifications of replies or any at all, there’s much less of a chance for a flame war
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Hey it’s that “threads” link in the header. You’re welcome.
I do like how there's no "badge" indicating new replies attached to the "threads" link.
Yeah weirdly I also think that's a good feature to be missing. If we had this we'd definitely see more comments and engagement, but I don't think it would be better. Getting an instant audio-visual notification (i.e. you keep the tab open, see a "(1)" appended to the title of the tab and you hear a little *ping!*) during more heated discussions would diminish the "cooldown" period where you have a couple of minutes to step back and think "do I really need to reply...?" We have enough of this kind of discussion already, if I'm honest I'm no stranger to them :)
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#28One 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.
Low comment/response velocity is what keeps it from turning into reddit IMO. Meaning, high velocity encourages arguments, negativity and other low value response posts which is what I see all over on Reddit.
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#29I like that HN didn’t act like other forums where 2 commentators go on a long threaded discussion. I like the fact that other people pick up the idea and carry it in the comments.
If HNers wanted notifications they would’ve implemented it in the last decade.
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#30One 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.
Low comment/response velocity is what keeps it from turning into reddit IMO. Meaning, high velocity encourages arguments, negativity and other low value response posts which is what I see all over on Reddit.
The one unifying characteristic of all social network communities is that they all have a defined Other that they are better than.
They all invent some rationale for why they are better but all of them are, in the end, the same.