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YC News Tracker: A better way to read comments
- gibsonf1 19y agoThanks Waleed - nice work!
- waleedka 19y agoIt was fun to write. Ideas for improvement are welcome. As well as bug reports.
- yubrew 19y agoThanks! This will help keep track of the hundreds of new comments when pg posts a new essay. It would be nice to have something that lists the monitored threads. For instance, if I wanted to track the progress of this thread, it would be a lot easier to have a list from YC Tracker bookmarklet than to remember and search for the title "YC News Tracker blah blah."
- waleedka 19y agoThat would be really nice. I'm storing the thread IDs in cookies, so I have a list of them. But I'm not storing the thread titles. If I do, the cookie might get big if you track a lot of threads. And, since cookies are sent to the server on every request, a big cookie could affect performance (although it's probably not noticeable at all on broadband). I'll have to think more about it. And, maybe check if I can have the cookies be set to client-only. If that's doable, it'll solve the problem.
- akkartik 19y agoWhat you really need is a greasemonkey plugin :)
- waleedka 19y agoIt's worth mentioning here that akkartik has built a really cool tool that shows the changes on any web page since the last time you visited it. And, it works automatically because it's a plugin, not a bookmarklet. Check it out: http://hystry.com/ http://hystry.com/
- akkartik 19y agoI just pushed all the javascript into a .user.js file and put in the correct header, and got a working greasemonkey plugin: http://akkartik.name/newsyc-comment-tracker.user.js http://akkartik.name/newsyc-comment-tracker.user.js Wow! Currently autoadds every comment thread you ever visit. I'll add support for seeing monitored threads now, and maybe deleting some threads if others want that. It's still Waleed's baby, though.
- waleedka 19y agoSuper. Thanks akkartik. Can't wait to see the monitored threads list, that would be awesome.
- akkartik 19y agoDone. http://akkartik.name/newsyc-comment-tracker2.user.js http://akkartik.name/newsyc-comment-tracker2.user.js
- waleedka 19y agoWow, very nice. Althogh my 'break time' link is gone :(. But, still, I really like it. Thanks a bunch.
- waleedka 19y agoOne little feature request. Can you list the threads in descending order by time of visit? This way, the ones I visit last show at the top. I think it can be done if you attach the time-stamp to the cookie, and then order by it.
- gibsonf1 19y agoAnother nice feature would be to have the comment notification automatically show on monitored threads without having to re-click the YC Tracker toolbar link.
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- matth 19y agoUnrelated but relevant: YC Application Word Count http://www.commonplacelog.com/ycbookmarklet.html http://www.commonplacelog.com/ycbookmarklet.html