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Email notifications for Hacker News comment replies
- cpressland 2y agoThis is great! But I’m not keen that the site isn’t using HTTPS by default, nor the links in the verification emails.
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- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoFWIW I know there are a bunch of other "HN notification" sites. dang has previously commented why he doesn't think this feature fits with the ethos of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27901918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27901918 Also for the privacy conscious, hnreplies had a data breach in 2021, making public the link from email address to HN username: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26968908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26968908
- pavel_lishin 2y agoI'd like to point out that while there was indeed a breach, the response from the author felt very right.
- sklargh 2y agoNot a fan of this for aesthetic reasons. I enjoy that HN is beneficially slowed down by a lack of notifications. I believe it is a valuable distinction from most other forums and mainline social posts.
- chriswarbo 2y agoIt's useful to have options. In particular, I prefer RSS/Atom feeds (polled once a day), rather than visiting Web pages to check for updates "manually". HNReplies lets me treat comment replies in the same way (I'm currently consuming both in Thunderbird; in the past I converted RSS to maildir and consumed both in Emacs).