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Yes, please, a way to see new comments in a discussion. One of the unfortunate side-effects of the current system is that interesting conversations get killed o
by kens 14y ago
Yes, please, a way to see new comments in a discussion. One of the unfortunate side-effects of the current system is that interesting conversations get killed off too soon because nobody can follow what's being said any more. (Falling off the front page is also a killer for discussions. It would be nice if active discussion threads remained visible somewhere.)
I'm not the first person to bring up Usenet here, but it pains me that Usenet had way more functionality in the 1980s. (Which I don't mean as a criticism of HN, but a wish for more learning from the past.)
- danmaz74 14y agoBut how many users were there on usenet? The special thing about HN is that it keeps a quality of comments way above average without needing to be too elitist; I think that limiting the conversations (and thus the flame wars etc.) is a choice. But to highlight new comments there are many different solutions already, take a look at the other comments :)
- moe 14y agoThe special thing about HN is that it keeps a quality of comments way above average That was in fact also a quality of Usenet, before it went out of fashion for unclear reasons. It would be an interesting exercise to mirror (or even move) HN to a nntp-server. Personally I believe the signal/noise ratio would improve drastically.