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specifically comment reply notifications would be a very welcome feature. It's annoying to manually track discussions as an active user.
by gr3yh47 10y ago
specifically comment reply notifications would be a very welcome feature. It's annoying to manually track discussions as an active user.
- DanBC 10y agoThere's a risk it promotes flamewars. I'm not sure how to tackle that? Maybe a built in delay bofre accepting replies on notified messages?
- krapp 10y agoI would argue the new comments page promotes flamewars as well, probably moreso than notifications would, since it shows potentially every troll comment. It just begs people to engage in tangential, out-of-context commenting and drive-by voting. The obvious, direct way to deal with it would be to just accept the risk and moderate as usual. There are already plenty of flame-retardant features here, I don't know that we would need more.
- jbob2000 10y agoYeah, but then HN becomes "serious business". So what if you don't see that there's a reply to your comment? And so what if you don't reply to a discussion? It's just a dinky message board for tech news and that's why it's great.