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HN Replies – Get notified when someone replies to you
- lelf 6y agoCool! There was http://www.hnnotify.com http://www.hnnotify.com for this, same idea (but no longer works)
- syntaxing 6y agoThis is pretty neat, though I do have mixed feelings. On one hand, HN is great because it's more like a "fun things to read" aggregator to me so I don't want HN to become like a psuedo reddit. On the other hand, I feel like I have missed a lot of fun conversations because I didn't know someone replied to me and missed the window to reply since the other person wouldn't know about my response either.
- raiyu 6y agoI guess on the one hand if the conversation didn't warrant you returning to it in a timely fashion, maybe it wasn't that critical. For any company related stuff I usually checked in regularly and also have google alerts set up. But for casual banter, I think the no notification is a nice feature of HN and probably reduces some of the bad noise other public forums have. That being said, still a nice feature to add for those who want it =]
- neom 6y agoIt's true. There is also some interesting gamification in looking at your Karma and trying to figure out why it increased. Sometimes my karma randomly goes up a bit, and in investigating why, I get to go back and re-enjoy threads on articles because someone replied to something from a while ago, but most of all I like the impetuous is on me to go look for replies, I think it adds a level of friction that makes the HN experience better.
- phobosanomaly 6y agoYup, it's fun to chase-down arguments and points you were curious to hear feedback on.
- ivanovb 6y agoI think it will be nice to stay as it is for the most part, but for a comment of your own you should have the ability to enable notifications for direct answers. It would be really useful when I have follow up questions. Maybe add a limit on how many 'followed threads' you could have active at the same time, so they discourage automating this behavior and make you really think if the thread is that important for you at the moment.
- divbzero 6y agoI have very mixed feelings about this. The quality of HN threads benefits from more thought out comments and fewer reflexive replies. Notifications can promote “engagement” in the superficial sense of increasing frequency of replies, but will damage engagement in the deeper sense of decreasing depth of thought.
- romanoderoma 6y ago> HN to become like a psuedo reddit Is it really a thing to bash Reddit for everything? I mean, it's not great in general, but the few subreddits I follow are much better than HN, at least nobody is telling you what's good and what is not, it's the community that regulates itself. Isn't it possible that having a bad experience with Reddit is a “show me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are” more than anything else?
- andreareina 6y agoI don't see a privacy policy anywhere.
- noncoml 6y agoI thought making difficult for one to see replies on their posts was intentional and a “feature” of HN. Avoid flame wars and all. Edit: But having said that, this tool can come really handy in some cases
- pm90 6y agoYeah. I prefer not being notified.
- ngokevin 6y agoReddit replies 10 years ago used to feel like an exciting thing. Nowadays, I just feel dread.
- JoshTriplett 6y agoDepends on which Reddit communities you're a part of.
- vmception 6y agowhich really means unsubscribe from everything on all
- jcims 6y agoReddit Pro Tip #1: After unsubscribing from all of your original subreddits, only subscribe to those with less than ~100k users (YMMV). If there's a popular sub you like, there's probably an unpopular one for a similar topic. Reddit Pro Tip #2: On the 'old' site layout, adding /comments to your front page or any slow subreddit will surface all of the comments instead of the submissions. This is a super handy way to see where the conversation is happening when the list of posts hasn't changed much in the past day or two. E.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/hackernews/comments https://old.reddit.com/r/hackernews/comments
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- welder 6y agoReminds me of https://histre.com/features/ https://histre.com/features/
- thomasfromcdnjs 6y agoI've been wanting to build this for years, thought there must be a reason it doesn't exist aha
- rajool 6y agoNice idea, but as a new user I don't like to be notified! :)
- nxpnsv 6y agoOr as an old one....
- sails 6y agoOr follow yourself on RSS https://hnrss.org/replies?id= https://hnrss.org/replies?id=
- mraza007 6y agoWow this is actually pretty useful Thanks for sharing
- boraoztunc 6y agoright on! thank you.
- Vinnl 6y agoThat is perfect, thanks for sharing.
- Etheryte 6y agoNice, more power to RSS. Really digging that it's making a slow but steady comeback into more and more commonplace scenarios again.
- paranorman 6y agoI love it, thanks!
- r0rshrk 6y agoWhat do we pass in the id ?
- sails 6y agoprofile: https://hnrss.org/replies?id=r0rshrk https://hnrss.org/replies?id=r0rshrk
- lettergram 6y agoI built my own chrome extension for this and also tracking users (similar to an RSS feed). It was actually for a client, don’t know what happened to it. I used it for personal use a bit and frankly I like the untracked and unnamed nature of comments. I don’t need to follow people for thoughtful comments. I add insight where I can and honestly only return if I want to. I don’t need notifications, I’d rather explore organically. That being said, good work and I’m sure others will find value. Just not for me.
- unnouinceput 6y agoQuote: "1,945 HN Users Signed Up" Well, well, well. For a crowd that cries each time somebody like Google & Co gets data on users, this does sounds like the best tool to get hold of developers without them realizing they've just been fished :D.
- detaro 6y agoIgnoring the fallacy of equating crowd opinions with individual ones, what "fishing" is happening by explicitly putting data into the signup to this service?
- unnouinceput 6y agoAin't an active e-mail account that you read religiously, as required by this service, a gold mine for advertisers? Tell me I'm wrong.
- speedgoose 6y agoThat's not good for my addiction.
- benlumen 6y agoRight? With everything we know about the main social networks, I’d pass on this too.
- gorgoiler 6y agoI’d love to use this. A privacy notice would be cool. There’s surely a huge liability in maintaining a database of (HN username, email) pairs. It’s a valuable target that will attract attention and I’m wary of becoming part of a breach. So: a small privacy statement would be great to see, and maybe a note on security measures in place? Apologies to DG if I’ve been living under a rock and you are a leading figure in Security research whose reputation I should know!
- phobosanomaly 6y agoExcellent point.
- jvolkman 6y agoI've been happily using this since Jan 2019. Not sure how long it's been around, but it's not new.
- tirumaraiselvan 6y agoMy feature request came true :D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18587562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18587562
- StavrosK 6y agoHN replies has been running since before your post, I've been using it for a few years for sure.
- wodenokoto 6y agoI want to know where my upvotes are coming from! Some days the counter is increased by one or two, and there appears to be no activity on my newest comments.
- jan888 6y agoAnother free tool in a similar vein is F5Bot. It can monitor HN for keywords and email you whenever they show up. https://f5bot.com/ https://f5bot.com/
- Baeocystin 6y agoI've been using this service for a few months, now. I get enough comments even weeks after my original posts that I've grateful for the notification. So, to the creator, thank you!
- pabs3 6y agoYou could probably do something similar but hosted privately using haxor: https://github.com/avinassh/haxor https://github.com/avinassh/haxor
- grandinj 6y agoI really like this, I just wish the email was re-arranged a little to make it harder for me to hit the "unsubscribe" link instead of the "go to my post" link
- habosa 6y agoBeen using HN Replies for years, not sure why anyone comments on HN without it! Thanks for making a great free product.
- godelmachine 6y agoI went to the developers site from hnreplies.com and an advertisement opened. Hoping this site's revenues ain't ad driven.
- ablekh 6y agoIMO, reply notifications (configurable on per-thread basis) should have been a part of HN from the very beginning.
- appleflaxen 6y agoThis is great work, but I'd prefer an in-page notification (an HN inbox). I don't want more email.