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I was just working on simple widget that showed my last few comments with links back to HN. Although I'm having mixed feelings about using it on my homepage.

by nirmal 18y ago

raju 18y ago
Makes me think... maybe its time BackType came up with a widget... yes? Might save you the trouble. www.backtype.com Of course it won't help with your predicament, but it will be easier in case you do decide to display your HN comments.
- nirmal 18y ago
  Backtype is nice but it would require me to replace my profile url with one of theirs. It's really geared towards people that don't have a website of their own.
  - omakase 18y ago
    You don't have to replace your profile url with ours, we only suggest that for people that don't have a website. You could claim your comments: http://www.backtype.com/url/news.ycombinator.com%252fuser%3Fid%3Dnirmal http://www.backtype.com/url/news.ycombinator.com%252fuser%3F... and add them to your account and create a widget no problem.
    - nirmal 18y ago
      Can widgets pull in the actual comments? The widget I'm looking at only has a link to the parent article. I'd actually like both.
      - omakase 18y ago
        Right now the search widget is the only one that displays comments: http://mm.urbantwelve.com/ http://mm.urbantwelve.com/ We could do this pretty easily though.
        nirmal 18y ago
        I submitted a formal request as well, just in case no one was monitoring this thread.
- omakase 18y ago
  Hey Raju, we do have widgets :) and you can definitely use it to display HN comments (although not karma): http://www.backtype.com/widgets http://www.backtype.com/widgets
  - raju 18y ago
    Woops! Sorry. My bad. Should have looked harder before commenting. My apologies.
    - omakase 18y ago
      No worries, they're a bit hard to find.
epi0Bauqu 18y ago
Why mixed feelings?
- nirmal 18y ago
  Many of my comments don't make sense without knowledge of the parent article/comment.
  - epi0Bauqu 18y ago
    I'd still do it. They are probably still intriguing, and you would provide the links for context.
  - akkartik 18y ago
    Maybe link to links like: http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=391547 http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?http://news.ycombinator.com... If that doesn't work for you I'd love to hear why.

I was just working on simple widget that showed my last few comments with links back to HN. Although I'm having mixed feelings about using it on my homepage.

by nirmal 18y ago

I was just working on simple widget that showed my last few comments with links back to HN. Although I'm having mixed feelings about using it on my homepage.

raju 18y ago

Makes me think... maybe its time BackType came up with a widget... yes? Might save you the trouble. www.backtype.com Of course it won't help with your predicament, but it will be easier in case you do decide to display your HN comments.

nirmal 18y ago
Backtype is nice but it would require me to replace my profile url with one of theirs. It's really geared towards people that don't have a website of their own.
- omakase 18y ago
  You don't have to replace your profile url with ours, we only suggest that for people that don't have a website. You could claim your comments: http://www.backtype.com/url/news.ycombinator.com%252fuser%3Fid%3Dnirmal http://www.backtype.com/url/news.ycombinator.com%252fuser%3F... and add them to your account and create a widget no problem.
  - nirmal 18y ago
    Can widgets pull in the actual comments? The widget I'm looking at only has a link to the parent article. I'd actually like both.
    - omakase 18y ago
      Right now the search widget is the only one that displays comments: http://mm.urbantwelve.com/ http://mm.urbantwelve.com/ We could do this pretty easily though.
      - nirmal 18y ago
        I submitted a formal request as well, just in case no one was monitoring this thread.
omakase 18y ago
Hey Raju, we do have widgets :) and you can definitely use it to display HN comments (although not karma): http://www.backtype.com/widgets http://www.backtype.com/widgets
- raju 18y ago
  Woops! Sorry. My bad. Should have looked harder before commenting. My apologies.
  - omakase 18y ago
    No worries, they're a bit hard to find.

epi0Bauqu 18y ago

Why mixed feelings?

nirmal 18y ago
Many of my comments don't make sense without knowledge of the parent article/comment.
- epi0Bauqu 18y ago
  I'd still do it. They are probably still intriguing, and you would provide the links for context.
- akkartik 18y ago
  Maybe link to links like: http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=391547 http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?http://news.ycombinator.com... If that doesn't work for you I'd love to hear why.