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threads can go for multiple years, if you do it right
by hprotagonist 3y ago
threads can go for multiple years, if you do it right
- behnamoh 3y agohe's right tho — lack of notifs on HN means you won't know about replies to your comments or new comments in fav threads.
- aspenmayer 3y agoTell HN: HN Replies is email notifications for comment replies, maintained by Dan Grossman. https://hnreplies.com/ https://hnreplies.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dangrossman https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dangrossman
- DeathArrow 3y agoYou can make a browser add-on or use a script to keep you in the loop.
- maxbond 3y agoWhich is to say, always reply within two weeks. Does anyone know of a thread on HN that survived multiple months?
- Buttons840 3y agoAlso, old forums didn't organize comments in tree structures, they were just flat chronological comments. This is technically inferior, but it helped keep everyone more focused on a single thread, as it were.
- Paul-Craft 3y agoYou don't need to go to an unthreaded format, with all the attendant clutter and such, to do that. All you have to do is bubble up threads that have had recent messages to the top. That's why HN doesn't (or at least shouldn't) try something like that: it wouldn't be "Hacker News" anymore, so much as "Hacker Gossip" or whatev.
- DeathArrow 3y agoIn most forums, one example being DPReview, the user can switch between threaded view and flat view. I choose flat view, because I usually read the whole topic if it interests me and I usually want to read the last updates without having to go trough multiple threads. Also, flat view, mimics a real discussion between people.