Not intending this to be an insult, but if you're posting so much that you're having difficulty following responses to your comments, you might be posting too m

Not intending this to be an insult, but if you're posting so much that you're having difficulty following responses to your comments, you might be posting too many low-effort comments. Reddit is where a chain of short posts, witty one-liners, or sarcastic comments is the culture: that's a site where you need good notifications if you're an active user. HN is more about insightful comments and nuanced details explained thoughtfully: notifications might be less useful here because the volume of comments from an average user should be much less. I agree that sometimes notifications on an older post might be useful because some great comment might be forever missed. I guess there's also competing design interests with reducing spam though: if notifications existed the incentive for bad actors to spam users might be significantly increased.