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Thank you for liking it :D 1. The alt+h hotkey will be probably be replaced by "?". That should fix this. 2.1 That's a pretty cool idea. Would you want the "m

by pabue 5y ago

Thank you for liking it :D 1. The alt+h hotkey will be probably be replaced by "?". That should fix this. 2.1 That's a pretty cool idea. Would you want the "mark as read" part to happen automatically or manually? 2.2 Showing new/unread comments is also a cool idea but it will increase the amount of requests to the HN api. However I'm gonna look into it. Wrapping it in a Tauri might be cool, because I actually wanted to try that. But I think the first step would be to make it a PWA, so you can install it without downloading anything. Thank you for the feeback!

kbenson 5y ago
> Showing new/unread comments is also a cool idea but it will increase the amount of requests to the HN api. However I'm gonna look into it. At the simplest level LocalStorage or equivalent keyed on the submission id with a prior comment count to be compared with the new comment count would be sufficient. If it had a time of hast check as well, highlighting new comments would also be easy. I'm not sure about other people, but thise are really the two things I care about most when trying to keep up with a discussion (are there new comments, and which are they).
- mkl 5y ago
  Storing view time would make things easy, but might break on subthreads. You can probably just store all the comment ids in LocalStorage, and highlight comments that aren't in that set before putting them in there (or maybe put them in there only when scrolled to/past).
bennyp101 5y ago
It would be neat if there was an option (maybe for the future, a simple settings modal) to either mark as read once 'opened' or a hot key to mark as read (or toggle?). Kinda like email clients lists. I use live bookmarks in Firefox, so I have a tick next to the items I have looked at, just something like that, or some sort of visual indication. The comment count thing was more a thing I like on other sites, so like on ArsTech I can see if there are more comments from where I last read (which is handy to go and see if there are more cool discussions going on) but yea maybe would hammer the API a bit too much - unless limited to just 'new 'or 'ask' or something
ghengeveld 5y ago
If you switch to ? keep in mind that some keyboard layouts (e.g. Hungarian) require a modifier key to type this character.
- yurishimo 5y ago
  It requires one for a US layout too (shift) if you match on the actual `?` character and not `/`

by pabue 5y ago

kbenson 5y ago

> Showing new/unread comments is also a cool idea but it will increase the amount of requests to the HN api. However I'm gonna look into it. At the simplest level LocalStorage or equivalent keyed on the submission id with a prior comment count to be compared with the new comment count would be sufficient. If it had a time of hast check as well, highlighting new comments would also be easy. I'm not sure about other people, but thise are really the two things I care about most when trying to keep up with a discussion (are there new comments, and which are they).

mkl 5y ago
Storing view time would make things easy, but might break on subthreads. You can probably just store all the comment ids in LocalStorage, and highlight comments that aren't in that set before putting them in there (or maybe put them in there only when scrolled to/past).

bennyp101 5y ago

It would be neat if there was an option (maybe for the future, a simple settings modal) to either mark as read once 'opened' or a hot key to mark as read (or toggle?). Kinda like email clients lists. I use live bookmarks in Firefox, so I have a tick next to the items I have looked at, just something like that, or some sort of visual indication. The comment count thing was more a thing I like on other sites, so like on ArsTech I can see if there are more comments from where I last read (which is handy to go and see if there are more cool discussions going on) but yea maybe would hammer the API a bit too much - unless limited to just 'new 'or 'ask' or something

ghengeveld 5y ago

If you switch to ? keep in mind that some keyboard layouts (e.g. Hungarian) require a modifier key to type this character.

yurishimo 5y ago
It requires one for a US layout too (shift) if you match on the actual `?` character and not `/`