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Meta, replying here because there's no PMs: I'd like a "follow" feature, so I can see what certain people (like you) are doing. Implemented like a personal new

Meta, replying here because there's no PMs: I'd like a "follow" feature, so I can see what certain people (like you) are doing. Implemented like a personal newsfeed. Just now occurs to me that RSS feeds for HN profiles would be cool. Last time I checked, your reddit experiment was too much work to upkeep. You were also trying one of the newer hosters, "morpheus"?, but I didn't grok their UX.

dredmorbius 6y ago
There's an HN RSS feed engine which supports user feeds: https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ Reddit and Mastodon (https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius) also support RSS. Though mostly I don't think I'm posting much of substance presently. Look for a gitlab static site ... eventually.
msla 6y ago
As long as we're wishing, I wish we had a way to know when someone had replied to us.
- dredmorbius 6y ago
  On balance lack of that is ultimately a feature IMO. Even the most subtle of notifications becoms a klaxon, and very few are subtle. HN has a great deal of social engineering, most precisely the opposite of many of the ventures it has launched.
- effingwewt 6y ago
  A bit late but this aggravates me. I dont mind being unable to down vote in the least, in fact I think if downvoting had a timer it may help people cool down. But for replies, I feel as though refreshing a page to see if anyone has replied to me, just feels narcissistic. As such I rarely if ever get to reply to something, since I almost never re-read comments on an article, much less my own for the infinitesimally small chance of a reply. I think an option to have notifications to direct replies (not nested, but could be an option as well), would be pretty cool, as I've spoken before here about the drive-by commenting HN seems to cultivate (but I mean it works, right?).
  - specialist 6y ago
    Ya. I dearly miss the offline mail readers from the dial up BBS days. TLDR: most of the features (eg whitelists, blacklists, fetch behavior), were client side. I have a deep hunch that moving all these features to server side, aka social networks, contributed to our current mess. The recent rehash (front paged) about newsgroups (NNTP protocol) made me wish I had more gumption and just did something about it.

dredmorbius 6y ago

There's an HN RSS feed engine which supports user feeds: https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ Reddit and Mastodon (https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius) also support RSS. Though mostly I don't think I'm posting much of substance presently. Look for a gitlab static site ... eventually.

msla 6y ago

As long as we're wishing, I wish we had a way to know when someone had replied to us.

dredmorbius 6y ago
On balance lack of that is ultimately a feature IMO. Even the most subtle of notifications becoms a klaxon, and very few are subtle. HN has a great deal of social engineering, most precisely the opposite of many of the ventures it has launched.
effingwewt 6y ago
A bit late but this aggravates me. I dont mind being unable to down vote in the least, in fact I think if downvoting had a timer it may help people cool down. But for replies, I feel as though refreshing a page to see if anyone has replied to me, just feels narcissistic. As such I rarely if ever get to reply to something, since I almost never re-read comments on an article, much less my own for the infinitesimally small chance of a reply. I think an option to have notifications to direct replies (not nested, but could be an option as well), would be pretty cool, as I've spoken before here about the drive-by commenting HN seems to cultivate (but I mean it works, right?).
- specialist 6y ago
  Ya. I dearly miss the offline mail readers from the dial up BBS days. TLDR: most of the features (eg whitelists, blacklists, fetch behavior), were client side. I have a deep hunch that moving all these features to server side, aka social networks, contributed to our current mess. The recent rehash (front paged) about newsgroups (NNTP protocol) made me wish I had more gumption and just did something about it.