We set it up so https://TrackIf.com https://TrackIf.com can track if a HackerNews story gets a new comment (or if a comment gets a new comment, etc. etc.) It wa

We set it up so https://TrackIf.com https://TrackIf.com can track if a HackerNews story gets a new comment (or if a comment gets a new comment, etc. etc.) It was 100% for selfish reasons and once we did it we recognized we don't actually use it that often. As awesome as HN is, there's never a reason* that you need to immediately come back and respond unless you're getting your flamewar on... * Or if you're wearing your PR hat and there's a story about your company, but we really don't want to make things easy for those people unless we want to see the forums overrun.