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Ask HN: Do we need a favorite button?
When a story is submitted to Hacker News, we can respond to it by:
1. Ignoring it.
2. Upvoting.
3. Commenting (which I won't get into)
When you up vote a link, clearly you like it. As such, it shows up in your 'saved' category. Every single story I upvoted is there.
My problem is that sometimes I come across a story that I absolutely know I want to save for later. Other times, I just like the story now and am upvoting.
Sometimes, when I want to get a story that I knew I upvoted or read a long time ago, I will go back and look for it. That's a long and painful process though. I have hundreds of stories I upvoted.
What about a 'favorite' button? Or a 'save' button? A link that lets me save a particular story in a specific category reserved for just the stories I know I want to actually keep. Let me know what you think.
- frossie 16y agoI don't feel the need myself, because the "really really good" ones I share out to Google Reader (one click via the lovely shareaholic Firefox extension), which reduces the pool to search from (and of course is easier to search). And I could star it there, if I needed. Of course that is not an HN-only solution, but that is an advantage (months later I don't necessarily remember where I encountered a story). YMMV, of course.
- kloncks 16y agoI get that and I can send those out to, but I was looking for a solution to keep those within my HN ecosystem