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Not 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 mos
by sklargh 2y ago
Not 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).