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Ask HN: How do you know when someone replies to your comment?
- perihelions 4y agoThere aren't any automatic notifications and that's by intentional design, to break the strong engagement loops that other social media sites run on. Confirmed by HN's @dang here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22930391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22930391 (You can *manually* scan for replies in your "threads" link, on the off chance you haven't noticed that).
- t-3 4y agoChecking the "threads" page. A notification on the main page would be nice (maybe in place of the useless and attention-hostile points counter?).
- muzani 4y agoI find notifications more attention hostile. Often I write comments to think over a topic properly, and I don't always want to go back and check them. Replies are often by people who didn't even really read the comment or the article, and I get sucked into long responses.
- t-3 4y agoYeah, you're probably right. It would be nice to be able to turn off the scorekeeping though.
- ksaj 4y agoI check when I notice my points have gone up, and I'm curious what it was. Sometimes that means it'll take a few days before I've even noticed. As someone else pointed out, it's by design. Twitter and YouTube sometimes get bogged down by inevitable debates. It's avoided here.
- clarkevans 4y agohttps://www.hnreplies.com/ https://www.hnreplies.com/