Is there something like that for hacker news? (a browser addon or some custom client).
From dang (mod) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788678
[0] Email from April 2020:
> New feature: when you visit a thread, the software now highlights comments that are new since you last viewed the page. These are displayed with an orange (or whatever your topcolor is) bar to the left of the new comment. Refreshing the page will reset these.
> This will only work when you're logged in with your account that has this email address (and which we've marked as an alpha tester.)
tildes.net and some firefox extention (for reddit) implements it this way.
It can still be problematic, if i go to a thread with 100 comments and read it, come back and there are another 100 comments i might not want to read them all in one sit (e.g. because it is late at night).
It's interesting that all these "modern" platforms still don't have some of the usability benefits of email (while having their own benefits ofcourse) , I also wonder if this is part of the reason the linux kernal still uses email for communication.
I think so.
> can i opted in and out easily like the reddit beta?
I'm not sure. Why don't you email the mods and ask them?
It would even help keeping the conversation alive when you can easily find a relevant reply nested 5 levels deep.
did a quick scan through the awesome lists and found a couple other options.
The minus sign is in brackets like this: [ - ]
After you click it, it says "x number of replies" basically (in the form of the number of replies and the word more).
if there is a huge thread with lots of comments that you are really interested in, you read 50 comments and then come back and there is another 20 new comments, how do you easily find these comments?