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> This makes it very hard to catch up later on an article’s comments My biggest complaint related to this is that all threads are dead within 24 hours, which k
by thunky 4y ago
> This makes it very hard to catch up later on an article’s comments
My biggest complaint related to this is that all threads are dead within 24 hours, which kills a lot of interesting discussion. And commenters have no incentive to reply to dead threads.
This discourages in depth back and forth conversation which I usually find is the most interesting.
- lawkwok 4y agoAnd even if someone replies to you specifically, the only way you would know is noticing your karma increased on the top right of the page.
- AnonHP 4y agoSomeone replying to your comment doesn’t change your karma points. Someone upvoting your comment may probably increase your karma points (the may probably is because of the undisclosed algorithms that attempt to compensate for gaming the system). In other words, looking at karma won’t tell you whether someone replied to your comments or not. There is nothing on HN to indicate replies unless you dig into your comments history. There nay be other sites or browser extensions that could help on getting notified.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoAdmittedly, it varies, but I tend to look back for responses to older discussions if it was an interesting engagement to me. I agree with you that long form discussion suffers from current format, but I think it is part of the deal. It is hacker news and not hacker discussions. TBH, I am not sure if there is a good non-invite-only forum that facilitates that.