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Nice! What would also be cool would be the following: -1- Being able to follow a thread you haven't commented on. -2- Being able to follow a comment that is n
by Jugurtha 13y ago
Nice! What would also be cool would be the following:
-1- Being able to follow a thread you haven't commented on.
-2- Being able to follow a comment that is not yours.
The reason behind number 2 is that sometimes, you see an interesting comment and you'd be interested to know what people think about it, so you'll follow it and be notified whenever people reply to it.
- bambax 13y agoFrom the form, it seems you can "subscribe" to any HN handle, not just your own...? I don't know if you can use the same email for different handles, but with gmail for example you can produce an infinity of different email addresses.
- Jugurtha 13y agoI tried to put my e-mail address and "bambax" as HN Username, it returned "bambax is already a registered user of HN Notify." So you can't use it if the person you want to "follow" is already registered. Now, I tried "pg" and it subscribed me. The result of this is that if "pg" wanted to subscribe, he wouldn't be allowed. I tried to unsubscribe. Unsubscription is e-mail based and not handle based. i.e: You can't unsubscribe from just one user, you unsubscribe from all the users, since you're taking out the root (e-mail address). Now I have to subscribe again to get my own replies. PS: Been notified of your reply by HNNotify :)
- bambax 13y agoOk, so obviously it needs work! I just subscribed while making the parent comment BTW, and find the service useful. It would make a lot of sense to allow handles to be monitored by many different people; some users are super popular and I guess many people would like to "follow" them...