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For reddit, this is massively easier to implement, as each comment contains in markup an accurate timestamp. That way the script only has to store the timestam

For reddit, this is massively easier to implement, as each comment contains in markup an accurate timestamp. That way the script only has to store the timestamps on which you visit a comment section, not the comment ids. Additionally, that way you can select "highlight all comments since visit [...]" with a dropdown from which you can choose out of all recent visits you did. Sadly, Hacker News does not provide any such metadata in the markup. (Just like the comment formatting is shit, and the markup structure is as well. HN should just copy the nesting markup and formatting 1:1 from reddit, and it'd be massively improved already).

linkdd 5y ago
But it would break the workflow of so many people relying on that shitty structure! https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ I like the fact that HN is so "stable".
- jraph 5y ago
  HN is so "table", I'd say.
kogir 5y ago
Comment item ids are sequential (unless that’s changed since I last looked). You can perform relative ordering operations using them just like you could dates.
sorenjan 5y ago
Next to your comment there's a timestamp for when it was posted, with the title "2021-09-15T14:18:16". This is available for all comments as far as I can see. In what way is this inaccurate?
- MrGilbert 5y ago
  I think I like the outlined approach (minus the rant) that GP described - it sounds kind of simple, yet elegant.
  - kuschku 5y ago
    I actually ended up writing an HN backend for my comment highlight user script I described earlier, here’s the HN version: https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0329a0e https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0...
    - MrGilbert 5y ago
      That's neat! :)
- kuschku 5y ago
  Oh, that's nice! last time I developed a browser addon like that (half a decade ago, tbh) that didn’t exist yet. Neat!
kuschku 5y ago
I actually ended up writing an HN backend for my comment highlight user script I described earlier, here’s the HN version: https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0329a0e https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0...

linkdd 5y ago

But it would break the workflow of so many people relying on that shitty structure! https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ I like the fact that HN is so "stable".

jraph 5y ago
HN is so "table", I'd say.

kogir 5y ago

Comment item ids are sequential (unless that’s changed since I last looked). You can perform relative ordering operations using them just like you could dates.

sorenjan 5y ago

Next to your comment there's a timestamp for when it was posted, with the title "2021-09-15T14:18:16". This is available for all comments as far as I can see. In what way is this inaccurate?

MrGilbert 5y ago
I think I like the outlined approach (minus the rant) that GP described - it sounds kind of simple, yet elegant.
- kuschku 5y ago
  I actually ended up writing an HN backend for my comment highlight user script I described earlier, here’s the HN version: https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0329a0e https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0...
  - MrGilbert 5y ago
    That's neat! :)
kuschku 5y ago
Oh, that's nice! last time I developed a browser addon like that (half a decade ago, tbh) that didn’t exist yet. Neat!

kuschku 5y ago

I actually ended up writing an HN backend for my comment highlight user script I described earlier, here’s the HN version: https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0329a0e https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0...