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I've used this website since 2010 and just realized it was a feature. Maybe I'm just unobservant...

• narag 6y ago
  It's relatively new. Before we used upvotes. Actually I still don't use it and keep using upvotes to favourite stories. I'm sorry for that and even worse: sometimes I upvote a story without following the link, just using the upvote as a "read later" bookmark because I found the title intriguing. Not so bad is when I upvote because there's a very interesting comment, even though the article itself is crappy. Time ago someone posted a script that collects upvoted stories, but I can't find it now, it's in one of those upvoted stories O:) I guess I could make a conversion... but there are probably more than a thousand upvoted stories, I don't know.
  • mikestew 6y ago
    Not so bad is when I upvote because there's a very interesting comment If you didn’t know, you can “favorite” comments, too.
    • narag 6y ago
      That has become my favorite comment :)
  • mindcrime 6y ago
    Actually I still don't use it and keep using upvotes to favourite stories. I'm sorry for that So do I, but I'm not going to apologize for it. Upvoting is the fastest and more convenient way to save a story as "read later", so it's what I do. If they would add the "favorite" link to the front-page items, I'd use it instead of upvoting.
• jacquesm 6y ago
  It's not the most used function because browsers already have a 'favorite' function, bookmarks. I used a scrapbook extension in FireFox for years so even though I know it existed I've never used it. But this post actually serves to shine some light on it and I'll give it a shot for a few weeks to see how well it works for me. HN has some amazing threads every now and then and it is really worth remembering those.
• jedberg 6y ago
  Same here. Been here since the first week of HN, just learned about favorites.