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Show HN: HNfavorites – Explore the community's favorite content

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Nice. I suggest dropping the "Ask HN" posts or filtering them onto a second page, since those discussions tend to be a lot different from original story submissions.

We need to do more with the favorites feature! We'll do that eventually (in accordance with our motto, "move slowly and preserve things").

Thanks dang! I was super excited when you guys first announced favorites - there's so much cool stuff on HN that disappears after a day or two. Filtering the "Ask/Show/Tell HN" posts onto a new page is definitely a next step - as well as adding a favorite comments page.

Could you guys add favorites to the API? Scraping is pretty rough - Cloudflare doesn't seem to like me.

For me the Ask HN posts tend to have the most gold in terms of information. I tend to bookmark these the most.

Cool project!

I'd take issue with the claim that "the feature has had a good amount of adoption", though. The top result only has 41 favourites despite ~800 points.

Thanks man! Yeah that's a fair point - favorites still have a lot of room to grow. Hopefully this project can get them the attention they deserve.

I'm happy to report that a pretty large percentage of the daily active users on HN have favorited a few items (and some outlier users have favorited hundreds)!

That would be great, although personally speaking I like to keep all my bookmarks in one place, so it wasn't that useful for me. However, I do favourite particularly interesting comments sometimes, and would love to see what other people have saved as very often they're more interesting than the link itself.

Cool - I'm actually planning to spin off a version that just shows favorited comments when I have time!

I would find it really funny if this thread becomes a top favourited one since it's directly bringing attention to the feature and is very much worth bookmarking in some way.

+1 favorite :)

That would be a fun link along the lines as /new which would help new users get a sense of the place.

I like this thing about HN community, making something interesting from raw materials! Good Job.

I only noticed the feature a week or two ago, I guess this is one of those things that will slowly gain use...

great stuff, a lot of cool posts i wouldn't have known about otherwise.

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