Why use website-specific favorites instead of browser favorites? Isn’t it inconvenient to have bookmarks siloed across different websites? My browser bookmarks work on any website, are synced across devices and backed up automatically (Safari), and are easily searchable and organized via folders or tags.
Most-favorited Hacker News posts
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#32Honestly, 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 don't use it and use bookmarks instead, but if you just look for points https://hn.algolia.com/ works pretty well.
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#33TIL HN has favorite functionality!
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#34Why use website-specific favorites instead of browser favorites? Isn’t it inconvenient to have bookmarks siloed across different websites? My browser bookmarks work on any website, are synced across devices and backed up automatically (Safari), and are easily searchable and organized via folders or tags.
I use it as a super-upvote.
I try to only favourite the cream of the crop, in the hopes someone will stumble into my favourites list and enjoy them.
I mostly favourite comments not submissions though.
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#35Honestly, 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.
Not really surprised anymore because this has been discussed in the past but still perplexed why this is the case. I use the feature intensively and I find it useful. UX could be improved though, especially I'd like to be able to favorite a comment with a single click/tap, very much like voting up or down.
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#36Not very useful since almost no-one uses the favorite function on HN.
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#37Why use website-specific favorites instead of browser favorites? Isn’t it inconvenient to have bookmarks siloed across different websites? My browser bookmarks work on any website, are synced across devices and backed up automatically (Safari), and are easily searchable and organized via folders or tags.
The only benefit is that the HN favorites are public (to HN) so you can get aggregate data like this.
For the individual user there is zero reason.
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#38Honestly, 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.
That's because I already have bookmarks in my browser, marking articles as favorite on HN would give me no value.
HN Comments is where the money is, not the stories themselves.
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#39Not very useful since almost no-one uses the favorite function on HN.
I'm using. Author could do a query of number of fave'd items distribution across HN readers.
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#40Not very useful since almost no-one uses the favorite function on HN.
As evidenced by the top favorite among the 10,000 most active users having less than 100, when it's over four years old and has nearly 1700 upvotes.