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I 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, t

I 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 ago
Yeah. I prefer not being notified.
- ngokevin 6y ago
  Reddit replies 10 years ago used to feel like an exciting thing. Nowadays, I just feel dread.
  - JoshTriplett 6y ago
    Depends on which Reddit communities you're a part of.
    - vmception 6y ago
      which really means unsubscribe from everything on all
      - jcims 6y ago
        Reddit 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
    - throwaway0a5e 6y ago
      Even the niche subs all go to crap as they grow. I've left dozens of niche subs because they've become inundated with amateurs who think that some blog-spam article they read just before replying is an authoritative source and when they can't do that they just virtue signal (in the technical "look I believe what you believe" sense, not in the politically loaded sense of the word). I would just write this off as becoming old and bitter but I can see formerly dead subs in the same niche get activity from the good content creators as this happens to the popular sub (i.e. people are migrating) so it's clearly not just me.
  - sillysaurusx 6y ago
    I had the same feeling, so I stopped checking reddit replies and started using reddit like HN: just look at your profile to see any replies to you. It massively upgraded my reddit experience. And I have over 6k unread replies, which seems like some sort of high score. :)
simion314 6y ago
But not all conversations are "flame wars" , sometime you are having an interesting conversation/debate and you need a large amount of effort to remember to check for the replies and continue the thread. I know that some HNers will say HN > Reddit but this is in general I know some subbreddits that are better then HN and if you use those is great to see when somebody responded to your quality comment with an other quality comment.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  I've been using this for about three years and had multiple times where people contacted me days after a comment–usually they're quite good.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  Reddit is polite 4chan. HN is pun-free and witty quip-less Reddit. Humans are on average dumb pedantic jerks in internet comment sections everywhere. Some comment sections just have norms of conduct that do a better job masking it and making the people who can't mask it feel unwelcome. On HN we engage in mental gymnastics to avoid being wrong. On Reddit when people can't win they reply "yikes" or "who hurt you" and create an ad-hominum. On the chans they just call you a racial slur of some sort.
  - simion314 6y ago
    Reddit is not one place, there are subreddits, there are good ones with good moderation , but I do not participate in politics or heated topics. As an example you could compare r/starttrek vs r/DaystromInstitute , in the first you will find tons of low effort content and comments (memes, bad jokes,personal attacks, off topic stuff) int he second one only on topic and medium effor comments are allowed.
vmception 6y ago
there are no features on HN they just never developed it lol
smichel17 6y ago
Before hnreplies, I was manually scanning my history for replies. It got fairly time consuming, and I didn't like the relationship I was forming with my comment scores, which I had to look at all the time. I've found that replies coming to my inbox is very different from reply notifications on the site. I'm not already in "browsing mode" and the email contains the full comment; at least half the time I don't bother clicking the link in the email. YMMV.
scoot_718 6y ago
I love to go through my comments every so often and see the people who uselessly asked me questions or for more context.

pm90 6y ago

Yeah. I prefer not being notified.

ngokevin 6y ago
Reddit replies 10 years ago used to feel like an exciting thing. Nowadays, I just feel dread.
- JoshTriplett 6y ago
  Depends on which Reddit communities you're a part of.
  - vmception 6y ago
    which really means unsubscribe from everything on all
    - jcims 6y ago
      Reddit 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
  - throwaway0a5e 6y ago
    Even the niche subs all go to crap as they grow. I've left dozens of niche subs because they've become inundated with amateurs who think that some blog-spam article they read just before replying is an authoritative source and when they can't do that they just virtue signal (in the technical "look I believe what you believe" sense, not in the politically loaded sense of the word). I would just write this off as becoming old and bitter but I can see formerly dead subs in the same niche get activity from the good content creators as this happens to the popular sub (i.e. people are migrating) so it's clearly not just me.
- sillysaurusx 6y ago
  I had the same feeling, so I stopped checking reddit replies and started using reddit like HN: just look at your profile to see any replies to you. It massively upgraded my reddit experience. And I have over 6k unread replies, which seems like some sort of high score. :)

simion314 6y ago

But not all conversations are "flame wars" , sometime you are having an interesting conversation/debate and you need a large amount of effort to remember to check for the replies and continue the thread. I know that some HNers will say HN > Reddit but this is in general I know some subbreddits that are better then HN and if you use those is great to see when somebody responded to your quality comment with an other quality comment.

saagarjha 6y ago
I've been using this for about three years and had multiple times where people contacted me days after a comment–usually they're quite good.
throwaway0a5e 6y ago
Reddit is polite 4chan. HN is pun-free and witty quip-less Reddit. Humans are on average dumb pedantic jerks in internet comment sections everywhere. Some comment sections just have norms of conduct that do a better job masking it and making the people who can't mask it feel unwelcome. On HN we engage in mental gymnastics to avoid being wrong. On Reddit when people can't win they reply "yikes" or "who hurt you" and create an ad-hominum. On the chans they just call you a racial slur of some sort.
- simion314 6y ago
  Reddit is not one place, there are subreddits, there are good ones with good moderation , but I do not participate in politics or heated topics. As an example you could compare r/starttrek vs r/DaystromInstitute , in the first you will find tons of low effort content and comments (memes, bad jokes,personal attacks, off topic stuff) int he second one only on topic and medium effor comments are allowed.

vmception 6y ago

there are no features on HN they just never developed it lol

smichel17 6y ago

Before hnreplies, I was manually scanning my history for replies. It got fairly time consuming, and I didn't like the relationship I was forming with my comment scores, which I had to look at all the time. I've found that replies coming to my inbox is very different from reply notifications on the site. I'm not already in "browsing mode" and the email contains the full comment; at least half the time I don't bother clicking the link in the email. YMMV.

scoot_718 6y ago

I love to go through my comments every so often and see the people who uselessly asked me questions or for more context.