Ask HN: Can I upvote submissions while offline?

1 pointorschiro10 comments

Imagine the following scenario:

1. Open Hacker News in a new tab

2. Go offline

3. Read through the submissions and give your votes

4. Go online

5. Automatically submit and sync my given votes

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Why can't you?

For me, it does not work in Chrome. The votes are not shown is counted if I reload HN.

Have you tried coding something up?

No, I am technically not skilled enough to do that. :-(

Ok. So why doesn't voting offline work?

I don't know. It just doesn't. If I vote offline, go online and then refresh the page, I can see that it did not count the votes.

How can Hacker News record your votes if you are offline?

That is exactly my question if there is a way to schedule offline actions (such as voting) and then release them when online again.

It would require learning to write code that solves the problem of why Hacker News does not count votes made offline. It's probably something that a motivated person can hack up, but it would require independent effort to gain an understanding of how websites and HTTP work.

Good luck.

Thanks!

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