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My point is that a brand new user might not know they need to manually check for replies. They’re much less likely to know about some third party utility for mo
by rimunroe 1y ago
My point is that a brand new user might not know they need to manually check for replies. They’re much less likely to know about some third party utility for monitoring them
- sillysaurusx 1y agoThat’s a feature, not a bug. Real time Reddit-style reply notifications encourage flamewars, or at least less thoughtful comments. I’ve even found myself falling into that trap now that I get notifications from HNReplies.
- rimunroe 1y agoPlease note I said “This is one of the few times I wish HN notified you of replies”. I’m normally glad it doesn’t notify me for that very reason.
- bot403 1y agoHm thanks for the meta-discussion. I thought I was missing a "reply notification" setting somewhere and was meaning to go search for enabling it one day.
- rimunroe 1y agoThis was also my experience when joining the site. Nowadays I appreciate not having the notifications, but when I joined I didn’t realize there weren’t any and I missed some comments I would have preferred to respond to.