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And on top of this, I would love the ability to know which comments were added since the last time I viewed the thread. Sometimes posts like 'Review my app' get

by vyrotek 16y ago

And on top of this, I would love the ability to know which comments were added since the last time I viewed the thread. Sometimes posts like 'Review my app' get a lot of feedback and spawn multiple discussions, but I can't easily tell which were new comments from the last time I looked. I can only see that the 'comment count' increased.

johnwatson11218 16y ago
Seems like I watched a demo of google wave online and it had stuff just like this. I thought that google wave would have been a perfect replacement for the threaded discussion model that we have here. These discussions seemed too short lived for my taste. I know that many people come up with insightful observations after they think about an issue for a day or two. By then the story is off the front page and what is the use in making the comment?
- rick_2047 16y ago
  These discussions seemed too short lived for my taste. I know that many people come up with insightful observations after they think about an issue for a day or two. By then the story is off the front page and what is the use in making the comment? We really need to solve this. People have a tendency to comment only on things which are on front page. This is in part the fault of being karma centric and also the sheer volume of traffic.
  - whatusername 16y ago
    General web forum software (phpBB etc) all solve this - bumping the most recent commented piece to the top of the forum. Digg/Reddit/HN broke this mould,,
    - vyrotek 16y ago
      Exactly, there needs to be a separate feature/page where submissions are sorted by most recent comment date.
wvl 16y ago
I found that frustrating as well, so I wrote a browser extension (available in Safari and Chrome) that highlights new comments: http://hckrnews.com/about.html http://hckrnews.com/about.html
ritonlajoie 16y ago
Hi vyrotek, I just added this feature. Hope you'll like it!

by vyrotek 16y ago

johnwatson11218 16y ago

Seems like I watched a demo of google wave online and it had stuff just like this. I thought that google wave would have been a perfect replacement for the threaded discussion model that we have here. These discussions seemed too short lived for my taste. I know that many people come up with insightful observations after they think about an issue for a day or two. By then the story is off the front page and what is the use in making the comment?

rick_2047 16y ago
These discussions seemed too short lived for my taste. I know that many people come up with insightful observations after they think about an issue for a day or two. By then the story is off the front page and what is the use in making the comment? We really need to solve this. People have a tendency to comment only on things which are on front page. This is in part the fault of being karma centric and also the sheer volume of traffic.
- whatusername 16y ago
  General web forum software (phpBB etc) all solve this - bumping the most recent commented piece to the top of the forum. Digg/Reddit/HN broke this mould,,
  - vyrotek 16y ago
    Exactly, there needs to be a separate feature/page where submissions are sorted by most recent comment date.

wvl 16y ago

I found that frustrating as well, so I wrote a browser extension (available in Safari and Chrome) that highlights new comments: http://hckrnews.com/about.html http://hckrnews.com/about.html

ritonlajoie 16y ago

Hi vyrotek, I just added this feature. Hope you'll like it!