The thread discussion ends often because of two things - new popular posts pushing old ones off the front page and the lack of constant notification. Both are b

The thread discussion ends often because of two things - new popular posts pushing old ones off the front page and the lack of constant notification. Both are by design and what make HN great. To encourage longer term discussion without changing the existing design, one idea is to add longer term notification to keep the engagement on a thread discussion, e.g. a daily summary of the responses to my comments coming as a notification. One is not constantly bombarded with instant notifications but still have a chance to catch up on the responses. I remember Usenet newsgroups were sync’ed daily via uucp, which forced a delayed notification of new responses.