Note: you may get notified before the reply is actually visible, if the commenter has a nonzero number in the delay field in their profile. So if you don't see the reply, just wait a few minutes.
Plus, I am really suspicious of the whole the names only differ by one letter thing...
The name difference is innocuous. The main reason for "notifo" was that the .com was available, honestly.
Why 'notifo', why not simply an email address ?
That's universal instead of a service that only works with the ipbone.
Out of 172 companies we've funded, I've only integrated 2 functionally into HN: Clickpass and Notifo, both because I thought they were useful to users.
I approve. :-)
That said, installing qmail is probably not going to open you up to very many attacks...
Everything and their brother supports email, there are so many gateways that once you are at the 'email' stage you can pretty much reach any device.
On a related note, your comment is over a day old now - normally I wouldn't reply so long after the fact. Since I know you have notifications on, late replies are now worthwhile. There's a chance this feature can actually affect the discussion here by allowing people to ponder a while before responding. In the past you could only wait so long before the thread left the front page and everyone moved on; things were likely written in haste.
I think it would pay to encourage users to use a shared secret in place of a username, though, since it's not going to be visible to anyone else, and so is really more of a "stream name."
Yep.
> Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone.
My thoughts exactly. There are a lot of mobiles out there that are not iphones, in spite of the iphones popularity.
I occasionally read HN on my G1, but doing much of any sort of reading or replying on a phone is a half-assed experience.
I'd much prefer to get E-mail (which, surprise! I can read on my phone if I so choose) or perhaps an RSS feed (which, again, I can read on my phone, if I so choose).
About the only reason I can see for making such things an "app" of some kind is to restrict how the user can use it and hack the results.
I admit, though: an RSS -> iPhone push notification gateway would be more useful. (Though as far as I've seen, none of the iPhone RSS clients want to support Push, because none of their servers could handle the load. It would really just need to be a part of PubSubHubbub infrastructure.)
I can't think of any fields to enter on my profile for any site I use that are also brand names.
Since many HN readers produce web content on their own sites (personal and business blogs, content from their startup's site, etc), will adding this feature to HN create a ripple effect on the web? Pretty awesome way to get traction, IMO.
Under what conditions will this notify you? I know it will notify you when you are a direct parent to the comment but is there a limit on how deep the nesting is before it stops notifying you? Is every comment below you counted as a response worthy of a notification?
Other HN launch thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1202941
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077411
Femtoo.com already does this :-)
Check it out at http://femtoo.com
oh and regarding seed funding for Femtoo.... watch this space...
http://api.femtoo.com/trackers/content/?trackerKey=f2t4ba37b...
open, RESTful API's, no propriatory software required...
Will it also work for submissions? I've noticed lately that the threads page is slow, but clicking on 'submissions' via the profile page is crushingly slow. If I'm away for a day or two it can make it difficult to check up on older threads, or find the link to share at some later date.
Hot as in flamewar like ?