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For replies to my own comments, I use the "threads" link.

I use https://f5bot.com/ to get an email when one of my projects is mentioned here.

For tracking threads where I want to see every comment, I wrote a little tool called hacker-news-to-sqlite which I can run against a thread ID to populate a SQLite database with all of the replies. Then I can sort by created date descending to see the most recent at the top: https://datasette.io/tools/hacker-news-to-sqlite

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This is interesting in that it seems it may be possible to download all of my comments from all threads and put into sqlite and then be able to search for old comments without have to go scroll page by page, click more - ctr0f - scroll - more repeat.. going to have to try this!

Why sqlite? just dump on a folder and use "ripgrep", obsidian, vscode.

Thanks for sharing f5bot, that is a wonderful service to learn about. Exactly what I was looking for!

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