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The single biggest problem I have is finding an article again at a later time. Even if one remembers the item or list number at the time of viewing (which I don
by hilbert42 2y ago
The single biggest problem I have is finding an article again at a later time. Even if one remembers the item or list number at the time of viewing (which I don't unless I take special note) that number will change almost immediately, a day or two later the article can be buried many pages down or have disappeared altogether.
Then there's the problem of remembering the story's title so one can search for it. Say, several days later I want to revisit a story that I remember the substance of but I have forgotten its title then sometimes it's almost impossible for me to find it again (stories often have short or cryptic titles that have little bearing with their content).
There's also a similar problem with comments, if I want to revisit a comment I read several days earlier, it's often almost impossible to find—unless I've noted the handle of the poster.
Another annoyance are stories behind firewalls, the poster will have access but many of us will not. It would make sense for these stories to be flagged with a big red dot or such so we can bypass them.
- teitoklien 2y ago> I have is finding an article again at a later time. Even if one remembers the item or list number at the time of viewing (which I don't unless I take special note) that number will change almost immediately There is a button below every post labelled ‘favourite’, once you’ve marked a post as favourite you can access the list of such bookmarked posts under your profile settings called favourited posts Here’s a link to your one : https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=hilbert42 https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=hilbert42 > Then there's the problem of remembering the story's title so one can search for it. > There's also a similar problem with comments. There’s tool at https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com to help you search for posts via both title and comments > There's also a similar problem with comments, if I want to revisit a comment I read several days earlier, it's often almost impossible to find—unless I've noted the handle of the poster. You can quickly search for all comments on hn.algolia.com Its a YC 2014 batch company.
- hu3 2y agoI find it amazing that we both wrote a comment about HN favorite and https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com within 5 minutes. You're is more complete though.
- hilbert42 2y ago"There is a button below every post labelled ‘favourite’, once you’ve marked..." Right, but that presupposes I want to remember or mark it at the time when I first read it which is usually not the case.
- hu3 2y agoYeah I don't like disappearing articles. I've missed some very interesting articles only to stumble upon them by chance in https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com A quick tip though which helped me: you can favorite posts and comments. You need to open each to see the favorite link.
- wenc 2y agoI browse HN from https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ It's chronological.
- ffsm8 2y agoThe homepage only works for the current day however. It sadly doesn't just accrue the entries like it does in the 10-50% categories
- wenc 2y agoNot sure what you mean. It spans multiple days, it’s invite scroll.
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