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Agreed. For serious, long-term discussions, forums work a lot better than sites like reddit. As soon as a submission on reddit gets more than a few hundred comm
by fuzionmonkey 15y ago
Agreed. For serious, long-term discussions, forums work a lot better than sites like reddit. As soon as a submission on reddit gets more than a few hundred comments, it really is hard to get everything.
I'm a big fan of serious hobby forums. Places like HardForum or the late TheGreenButton have lots of in-depth, long-standing, technical discussions. Discussions that just wouldn't be feasible on another software platform.
- jcitme 15y agoI was always suprised why HN never implemented a system for a user tracking new comments. How hard would it be to implement a slider that allows the client to choose up to how old should the comments be in black? For example, say I browsed an article during lunch. 5 hours later, after work, I go back to a thread I read an set a slider to fade out everything older than 5 hours old, as though they were downvoted. Then all I have to do is to scroll down, and the stuff that I can still see is what I haven't read yet...
- typicalrunt 15y agoUpvote to all of you. I hadn't realized this until today when I returned to this story and noticed that hardly anyone had responded to it. The story (and its comments) have basically died since it is off the "new" and "frontpage" sections of the site. However, if the story could somehow be found in a section on the HN site, I wonder if it would get more response and show some life. Just a thought...
- polyfractal 15y agoFor what its worth, I built a greasemonkey script to help find new comments in threads: https://github.com/polyfractal/HNHalfLife https://github.com/polyfractal/HNHalfLife