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Ask HN: Can I upvote submissions while offline?
Imagine the following scenario:
1. Open Hacker News in a new tab
2. Go offline
3. Read through the submissions and give your votes
4. Go online
5. Automatically submit and sync my given votes
- brudgers 9y agoWhy can't you?
- orschiro 9y agoFor me, it does not work in Chrome. The votes are not shown is counted if I reload HN.
- brudgers 9y agoHave you tried coding something up?
- orschiro 9y agoNo, I am technically not skilled enough to do that. :-(
- brudgers 9y agoOk. So why doesn't voting offline work?
- orschiro 9y agoI don't know. It just doesn't. If I vote offline, go online and then refresh the page, I can see that it did not count the votes.
- brudgers 9y agoHow can Hacker News record your votes if you are offline?
- orschiro 9y agoThat is exactly my question if there is a way to schedule offline actions (such as voting) and then release them when online again.
- brudgers 9y agoIt would require learning to write code that solves the problem of why Hacker News does not count votes made offline. It's probably something that a motivated person can hack up, but it would require independent effort to gain an understanding of how websites and HTTP work. Good luck.
- orschiro 9y agoThanks!