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Ask HN: Tool to follow or favorite HN users?
So far, I just bookmark the respective "/user?id=" URL, but I still have to periodically check their submissions manually. Would be nice if there were a Chrome extension or Greasemonkey script. Anyone else do this?
- tradersam 10y agoJust curious, why do you "follow" HN users? Personally, HN is where the content is the most important thing, usually disregarding the poster, but I'm interested in your view.
- cdvonstinkpot 10y agoI haven't been doing it long, but it came to mind after noticing a user with a ton of karma & being interested in many of their previous submissions. Then I realized I'd seen patterns before when reading other users' submissions- someone with lots of AI/ML -related stuff for example. But I never bookmarked them so I feel like I'll miss out on others' themed contributions unless I bookmark & look regularly.
- walterbell 10y agoIf you upvote/favorite enough comments & stories, you will observe a few recurring usernames. It would be good to have a view/feed of their stories & comments. For that matter, since favorites are public, it would be useful to see analytics based on favorited comments & stories.
- miles 10y agoHacker News RSS feeds "provides custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News", including for user posts and comments: https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
- cdvonstinkpot 10y agoFantastic! Thanks...