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In some cases this can cause a user to miss a reply in a discussion in which they had participated recently. Some users consider this to be a feature rather tha
by mindcrime 5y ago
In some cases this can cause a user to miss a reply in a discussion in which they had participated recently. Some users consider this to be a feature rather than a deficiency.
Yeah, I'm kinda glad HN doesn't have that. I think it helps avoid prolonged, drawn-out arguments that just go around in circles, generate animosity, and lead nowhere. Not getting notifications makes it easier to just let a conversation die out. I would put this in the "feature" category myself.
- ggerganov 5y agoI completely agree - I just wondered how one would do that and wrote the Bash script. Then I tried to optimize it with C++ and finally thought - why not share. Btw, your comment somehow didn't get detected by my service :-). First I thought I have a bug somewhere, but then I checked the result from the official HN API and for some reason it fails to return a result for the item id (30014342) of your comment [0]. Strange .. haven't seen this before. [0] https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/30014342.json https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/30014342.json Edit: and it just showed up -- I guess it can take some time.
- daenz 5y agoMaybe they can even take it a step further and delay all comments by 3 hours. I think this could encourage people to be more thoughtful and accurate if they knew that the round trip for clarification or knee-jerk responses was not immediate.