> The key to live, threaded discussion is unread message support. Exactly. The issue that many discussions on Reddit turn into one-on-one discussion is because

> The key to live, threaded discussion is unread message support. Exactly. The issue that many discussions on Reddit turn into one-on-one discussion is because of this. You can easily see new replies to your comments but not for other new comments. The HN has the same issue but it doesn't seem to be so extreme. Maybe many people have site enhancements scripts installed? There are various browser addons for Reddit that highlight new comments since the last visit but it would of course be much better, if this were a standard feature.