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Ask HN: How do you know if someone asked/replied to your question on HN?
There's a thread I like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957371 and I asked some questions to some people.
Problem 1: I think they don't know about it, since there's no notification function. So it's kinda sucks.
Problem 2: when they replied, I got no notification. That sucks #2.
How do people deal with it?
- JadeNB 10y agoI imagine that no-notifications is an intentional part of the minimalist æsthetic of HN, but I would also like this feature. It seems that it could be made minimally obtrusive by just having a "Replies" entry on your profile page, so that it's never in your way, but you can find the replies without having to trawl through all your old comments.
- wkoszek 10y agoAnything would be better to what we have now. Right now I need to bookmark the link, visit it every now and then and search for my username... It's pretty bad.
- JadeNB 10y agoFor what it's worth, I do just what I said: I go through my list of comments occasionally, and see if any of them has grown a thread. If there's only one in which you're interested then this method is no easier; but it's a nice way of keeping tabs on all of them (or at least the most recent ones) at once.
- janci 10y agothere is "threads" entry in menu bar, you can see your question and replies there https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wkoszek https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wkoszek
- internaut 10y agoI use hnreplies. www.hnreplies.com