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I think you meant to post in this thread instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28366063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28366063

• sillysaurusx 5y ago
  I once accidentally posted a comment in the wrong thread, and someone replied with a link to the thread I meant to post it in. I spent the rest of the day wondering how the hell I'd managed to write an entire reply to the wrong thread. Bet they're going through a "what... but how...?" feeling right about now. (I still don't really know. It must be a combination of having HN tabs open, interleaved with articles, but then closing one of the comment tabs while reading its corresponding article, at which point you think of something you wanted to say about it. Presto, wrong HN thread?) It's interesting to me that it happens on HN, but not any other site. Never seen it on Reddit, doubtful it ever happened on Slashdot, etc. There's something interesting going on with HN's simple design – simple enough that you don't realize you're in the wrong thread – plus some kind of common reading pattern that involves closing or mixing tabs. Occasionally wondered about that over the years...
  • stevehawk 5y ago
    happens on reddit all of the time.. and slashdot
  • supermatt 5y ago
    Yep - im going through that feeling right now :D
• supermatt 5y ago
  Thanks! no idea how that happened!