I’d love to use this. A privacy notice would be cool.
There’s surely a huge liability in maintaining a database of (HN username, email) pairs. It’s a valuable target that will attract attention and I’m wary of becoming part of a breach.
So: a small privacy statement would be great to see, and maybe a note on security measures in place?
Apologies to DG if I’ve been living under a rock and you are a leading figure in Security research whose reputation I should know!
But not all conversations are "flame wars" , sometime you are having an interesting conversation/debate and you need a large amount of effort to remember to check for the replies and continue the thread.
I know that some HNers will say HN > Reddit but this is in general I know some subbreddits that are better then HN and if you use those is great to see when somebody responded to your quality comment with an other quality comment.
Reddit is polite 4chan. HN is pun-free and witty quip-less Reddit.
Humans are on average dumb pedantic jerks in internet comment sections everywhere. Some comment sections just have norms of conduct that do a better job masking it and making the people who can't mask it feel unwelcome. On HN we engage in mental gymnastics to avoid being wrong. On Reddit when people can't win they reply "yikes" or "who hurt you" and create an ad-hominum. On the chans they just call you a racial slur of some sort.
Reddit is not one place, there are subreddits, there are good ones with good moderation , but I do not participate in politics or heated topics.
As an example you could compare r/starttrek vs r/DaystromInstitute , in the first you will find tons of low effort content and comments (memes, bad jokes,personal attacks, off topic stuff) int he second one only on topic and medium effor comments are allowed.
Even the niche subs all go to crap as they grow. I've left dozens of niche subs because they've become inundated with amateurs who think that some blog-spam article they read just before replying is an authoritative source and when they can't do that they just virtue signal (in the technical "look I believe what you believe" sense, not in the politically loaded sense of the word). I would just write this off as becoming old and bitter but I can see formerly dead subs in the same niche get activity from the good content creators as this happens to the popular sub (i.e. people are migrating) so it's clearly not just me.
Reddit Pro Tip #1: After unsubscribing from all of your original subreddits, only subscribe to those with less than ~100k users (YMMV). If there's a popular sub you like, there's probably an unpopular one for a similar topic.
Reddit Pro Tip #2: On the 'old' site layout, adding /comments to your front page or any slow subreddit will surface all of the comments instead of the submissions. This is a super handy way to see where the conversation is happening when the list of posts hasn't changed much in the past day or two. E.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/hackernews/comments
Before hnreplies, I was manually scanning my history for replies. It got fairly time consuming, and I didn't like the relationship I was forming with my comment scores, which I had to look at all the time. I've found that replies coming to my inbox is very different from reply notifications on the site. I'm not already in "browsing mode" and the email contains the full comment; at least half the time I don't bother clicking the link in the email. YMMV.
This is pretty neat, though I do have mixed feelings. On one hand, HN is great because it's more like a "fun things to read" aggregator to me so I don't want HN to become like a psuedo reddit. On the other hand, I feel like I have missed a lot of fun conversations because I didn't know someone replied to me and missed the window to reply since the other person wouldn't know about my response either.
The quality of HN threads benefits from more thought out comments and fewer reflexive replies. Notifications can promote “engagement” in the superficial sense of increasing frequency of replies, but will damage engagement in the deeper sense of decreasing depth of thought.
Is it really a thing to bash Reddit for everything?
I mean, it's not great in general, but the few subreddits I follow are much better than HN, at least nobody is telling you what's good and what is not, it's the community that regulates itself.
Isn't it possible that having a bad experience with Reddit is a “show me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are” more than anything else?
I think it will be nice to stay as it is for the most part, but for a comment of your own you should have the ability to enable notifications for direct answers. It would be really useful when I have follow up questions.
Maybe add a limit on how many 'followed threads' you could have active at the same time, so they discourage automating this behavior and make you really think if the thread is that important for you at the moment.
It's true. There is also some interesting gamification in looking at your Karma and trying to figure out why it increased.
Sometimes my karma randomly goes up a bit, and in investigating why, I get to go back and re-enjoy threads on articles because someone replied to something from a while ago, but most of all I like the impetuous is on me to go look for replies, I think it adds a level of friction that makes the HN experience better.
I built my own chrome extension for this and also tracking users (similar to an RSS feed). It was actually for a client, don’t know what happened to it. I used it for personal use a bit and frankly I like the untracked and unnamed nature of comments. I don’t need to follow people for thoughtful comments. I add insight where I can and honestly only return if I want to. I don’t need notifications, I’d rather explore organically.
That being said, good work and I’m sure others will find value. Just not for me.
I really like this, I just wish the email was re-arranged a little to make it harder for me to hit the "unsubscribe" link instead of the "go to my post" link
I've been using this service for a few months, now. I get enough comments even weeks after my original posts that I've grateful for the notification. So, to the creator, thank you!
I want to know where my upvotes are coming from! Some days the counter is increased by one or two, and there appears to be no activity on my newest comments.
Well, well, well. For a crowd that cries each time somebody like Google & Co gets data on users, this does sounds like the best tool to get hold of developers without them realizing they've just been fished :D.
Ignoring the fallacy of equating crowd opinions with individual ones, what "fishing" is happening by explicitly putting data into the signup to this service?
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