Ask HN: How do you know if someone asked/replied to your question on HN?

2 points·wkoszek··8 comments

There's a thread I like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957371 and I asked some questions to some people.

Problem 1: I think they don't know about it, since there's no notification function. So it's kinda sucks.

Problem 2: when they replied, I got no notification. That sucks #2.

How do people deal with it?

I imagine that no-notifications is an intentional part of the minimalist æsthetic of HN, but I would also like this feature. It seems that it could be made minimally obtrusive by just having a "Replies" entry on your profile page, so that it's never in your way, but you can find the replies without having to trawl through all your old comments.

Anything would be better to what we have now. Right now I need to bookmark the link, visit it every now and then and search for my username... It's pretty bad.

For what it's worth, I do just what I said: I go through my list of comments occasionally, and see if any of them has grown a thread. If there's only one in which you're interested then this method is no easier; but it's a nice way of keeping tabs on all of them (or at least the most recent ones) at once.

there is "threads" entry in menu bar, you can see your question and replies there

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wkoszek

I use hnreplies.

www.hnreplies.com

Nice. Just subscribed for this thing. We'll see...

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