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I'm not sure if this is something I am fine to say, but I've never signed an NDA or something so I'll just say: (Moderators, feel free to hide this comment if y
by pcr910303 5y ago
I'm not sure if this is something I am fine to say, but I've never signed an NDA or something so I'll just say: (Moderators, feel free to hide this comment if you would rather not like an influx of alpha testers.)
If you sign up to the alpha-testing HN[0], you get access to the thread feature, which is... (quoted from my forwarded mail)
> New feature: when you visit a thread, the software now highlights
> comments that are new since you last viewed the page. These are
> displayed with an orange (or whatever your topcolor is) bar to the
> left of the new comment. Refreshing the page will reset these.
Very useful, I can't imagine having HN without these indicators any more.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788678
- brundolf 5y agoFor those who don't want to switch to alpha, I made a bookmarklet that lets you enter an amount of time and highlights comments made within that amount of time (i.e. "15 minutes" ago, etc) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424560
- jeffdn 5y agoHow do you sign up for it?
- carl_dr 5y agoTaken from the parent comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788678
- krapp 5y agoI used to be on the beta testing list, but I think I was removed. It would be nice if awareness of this was more visible, maybe as a link on the footer, with a list of in progress or planned features.
- kuschku 5y agoI wrote a userscript that implements exactly that, but with the added benefit of storing every time you visited that page, so you can select between all your visits to that page and see which comments have been added after each visit. https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0329a0e https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0...