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Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News
You can now get notified on Notifo whenever someone replies to a comment you've made on HN. Just put your Notifo username in the notifo field on your profile.
Note: you may get notified before the reply is actually visible, if the commenter has a nonzero number in the delay field in their profile. So if you don't see the reply, just wait a few minutes.
- anigbrowl 17y agoI haven't used this service before, but it's a good idea - thank you. Will it also work for submissions? I've noticed lately that the threads page is slow, but clicking on 'submissions' via the profile page is crushingly slow. If I'm away for a day or two it can make it difficult to check up on older threads, or find the link to share at some later date.
- dustingetz 17y agomeh, put it in another tab and click another HN article
- anigbrowl 17y agoI know someone hiring for a QA position, but somehow I suspect you're not interested.
- dustingetz 17y agowhy would someone set the delay?
- jacquesm 17y agoTo cool down a 'hot' thread ? Hot as in flamewar like ?
- pg 17y agoI do it because I find I often edit comments after posting them. Sometimes I have second thoughts and delete comments after saying something unwise.
- daeken 17y agoOut of curiosity, how long is your delay and have you adjusted it over time? It's rare that I will think of some modification to (or the need to retract) a comment in the first minute or two after submitting it, so the only delay I could really see myself making use of would be 4 or 5 minutes. I'd be interested to see how many people use this, how frequently it comes in handy, and whether or not it's been fine-tuned to fit the way they think.
- pg 17y ago2 minutes. I don't think I've ever changed it, since I added the feature.
- Xichekolas 17y agoI used to have mine set at two minutes, but recently changed it to one. I found that I edit pretty hard for the first 2-3 minutes after submitting, but all the major changes come in the first minute, and whenever I reconsider and delete it's almost immediately.
- jacquesm 17y agoThat's a neat feature, but it may conflict with 'noprocrast', in that it will drive you mad if you can see that there are replies but you can't read them :) Why 'notifo', why not simply an email address ? That's universal instead of a service that only works with the ipbone.
- jackowayed 17y agoBecause email can't make YC millions of dollars if it gets popular and makes a big exit.
- pg 17y agoActually I wouldn't have integrated Notifo into HN if I didn't think it deserved it on its own merits. HN is a labor of love for me; I wouldn't integrate random stuff into it just because founders asked me to. Out of 172 companies we've funded, I've only integrated 2 functionally into HN: Clickpass and Notifo, both because I thought they were useful to users.
- adelevie 17y agoThis is an interesting way to provide a useful feature to HN readers and to promote Notifo as a brand. I can't think of any fields to enter on my profile for any site I use that are also brand names. Since many HN readers produce web content on their own sites (personal and business blogs, content from their startup's site, etc), will adding this feature to HN create a ripple effect on the web? Pretty awesome way to get traction, IMO.
- jazzychad 17y agoNotifo just launched today! http://notifo.com/ http://notifo.com/ Other HN launch thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1202941 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1202941
- techsansar 17y agoGREAT
- plinkplonk 17y agoIs this IPhone only? Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone(not to mention, not in the USA).
- jacquesm 17y ago> Is this IPhone only? Yep. > Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone. My thoughts exactly. There are a lot of mobiles out there that are not iphones, in spite of the iphones popularity.
- jazzychad 17y agoIt's iPhone only for now. Support for Android is in the very near future and BlackBerry right after that. This is explained on the notifo website.
- davi 17y agoI don't have a smartphone. I would sign up for this service if it would send me email when someone responded to my posts on HN.
- weaksauce 17y agoPG, Under what conditions will this notify you? I know it will notify you when you are a direct parent to the comment but is there a limit on how deep the nesting is before it stops notifying you? Is every comment below you counted as a response worthy of a notification?
- pg 17y agoEach child, but only children.
- alexro 17y agoWhy not notify people through Twitter? From Twitter I can get alerts to a regular mobile, not to mention to a Twitter client.
- jmonegro 17y agobecause YC invested in Notifo
- ryanhuff 17y agoFair point. In fact, why own the client at all? Be the middleman, and sent to twitter, facebook, hot social network of 2011, etc, instead of messing with clients. Lowers adoption barriers considerably.
- Qz 17y agoThe point is to make notifo the centerpiece, rather than tie it to whatever is the current fad.
- icco 17y agoWhy is this better than http://notify.io/ http://notify.io/ ? Notifyio has been around longer and has a better support for people who don't use iPhones. Plus it's open source... Plus, I am really suspicious of the whole the names only differ by one letter thing...
- jazzychad 17y agoPlease see my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1203422 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1203422 The name difference is innocuous. The main reason for "notifo" was that the .com was available, honestly.
- rksprst 17y agoWhat stops me from putting another user's notifo username? Most users use the same username on various sites...
- derefr 17y agoTwo things, I suppose—first, users can block services on the Notifo website, once they've [been] subscribed to them; second, developers have to sign up for an API key, so you can't just create a thousand spam services and subscribe a person to all of them. I think it would pay to encourage users to use a shared secret in place of a username, though, since it's not going to be visible to anyone else, and so is really more of a "stream name."
- maxklein 17y agoI think that notifo is a brilliant service, and I'm installing it right now. HN AND twitter? Why, I think I shall!
- tcarnell 17y agoFYI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077411 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077411 Femtoo.com already does this :-)
- tcarnell 17y agoFurthermore, because Femtoo publishes your tracker notifications as your own personal RSS Feed, you can already access all you notifications from ANY mobile platform that has an RSS Reader.... err. which is pretty much every platform :-) Check it out at http://femtoo.com http://femtoo.com oh and regarding seed funding for Femtoo.... watch this space...
- tcarnell 17y agoNumber of comments, updated every 30 minutes: http://api.femtoo.com/trackers/content/?trackerKey=f2t4ba37b771dc4c http://api.femtoo.com/trackers/content/?trackerKey=f2t4ba37b... open, RESTful API's, no propriatory software required...
- vlisivka 17y agocrontab + wget + diff + grep -v + mail