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The most useful HN addon is HN Replies by Dan Grossman. You get an email if someone replies to your comment. Simple UI and real value. http://www.hnreplies.com
by dankohn1 9y ago
The most useful HN addon is HN Replies by Dan Grossman. You get an email if someone replies to your comment. Simple UI and real value.
http://www.hnreplies.com/ http://www.hnreplies.com/
- StavrosK 9y agoFiiiinally! Also, an interesting blast from the past, I used to play a MUD with Dan back in the nineties, he was doing well even back then.
- kaushalmodi 9y agoThank you! I had been looking for a way to get reply notifications for very long.
- tym0 9y agoThanks, this is great. There has been a lot of vitriol about Disqus but I love how easy it is to follow a conversation on there.
- drdaeman 9y agoThanks! That's useful. Long time ago, there was a similar service that used push notifications (via now-dead Notifo; they also had emails https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720763 but, personally, I felt that pushes were nicer). I wonder if there's anything that uses Web Push notifications...
- Symbiote 9y agoI'm sure the lack of this feature is intentional, to prevent back-and-forth arguments and give others a chance to contribute. Years ago when I read Slashdot, it felt like the bulk of the discussion was the same few regulars, who would reply within minutes to any response they got. That wasn't healthy or informative, I'd prefer not to see the same here.
- rasz 9y agodo you really need notifications that badly? whats wrong with clicking "threads" (4th link on the top of page) once per day.
- dankohn1 9y agoBecause if an active debate is going on in response to my comment, I'd like to be able to participate. But, I'm not so self-centered as to assume that is likely, so I don't normally check.
- rasz 9y agoand at the same time you are ready to receive live updates while eating dinner/taking nr2/attending funeral. You are conceding control over your time(life) to some third party.