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Nitpick: what's up with the underlines to the right of the up-arrows? http://i.imgur.com/PSPES.png (OS X 10.7.4, Chrome 21.0.1180.57)

Bigger nitpick: I'd rather have a fix for functionality than for loading some extra data. The "next" page problem still occurs, and it would be nice to know when someone responds to a comment.

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"...and it would be nice to know when someone responds to a comment."

http://hnnotify.com/

I mostly want other people to be aware of it - often times, I'll ask a question and never get a response. I don't know if that person is just ignoring me, or if they have no idea.

very true; clearly it would be best to have it actually integrated into the site itself. or, at the very least, throw-up a link to HN Notify on the profile/settings page..

There is the notifo option on the profile page, which I've been using successfully for some time.

It also doesn't address the 'mostly want other people to be aware of it' part though.

When i saw this i thought "Wow! This is something I wasn't aware of", grinning with delight. Then when i went to the profile page, hoping to see a simple opt-in/out via a checkbox. Instead I'm greeted with a mysterious text box with indication as to what I'm supposed enter.

I've assumed email address for now, let's see if I'm right!

Yeah, it is a little cryptic isn't it. I should have been less so with my comment. To get it working:

1. Sign up for an account at http://notifo.com

2. Download one or more of their client applications here: http://notifo.com/mobile_apps and enter your details

3. Enter your notifo username in the box on your HN profile page.

I think the reason this facility exists here on HN is because Notifo is a Y Combinator company.

thanks for the info; was always wondering what exactly that box was for..

unfortunately, given that i have a Windows Phone and they only seem to have completed an iPhone app, this doesn’t cut it for me personally (and i’m assuming for many others on Android as well). also, it seems they’ve closed down, so no hopes for further support coming anytime soon, if ever: http://blog.notifo.com/notifo

and i get that it was a YC Company and hence it probably made sense to feature them there (as it really could have added value to the site if widely adopted) but, as it’s gone, i really think the optimal solution would be to replace it with something like HN Notify which is platform agnostic (just need an email).

That is sad news (and I somehow missed this until now). I thought it was a good little service, I have been using it for a personal project too.

Indeed, something like HN notify would seem to be the go for me now also.

Only just saw your reply as my prior assumption that all it took was an email address was, of course, incorrect :) delicious irony!

Thanks for the info, sad to hear the company has gone under.

For what it's worth, that blog post was from September last year and Notifo notifications are still being sent at present. I assume the dude has put it in caretaker mode as he says in his post.

I'll investigate later on, hopefully they're still accepting new users. Thanks for the heads up

Woops, forgot to add the rule to remove the border off the image.

Are you talking about the "link expired" error that pops up when you want to go to the next page?

Yup.

This is part of the core of HN. As I understand it, it generates those links on the fly, and they expire. I think they are handled by some sort of lisp callbacks that expire at a certain age. It's not something that can be fixed with re-theme-ing the frontpage.

This is correct.

http://files.arcfn.com/doc/srv.html#rflink

Right, but a bit of javascript to rewrite the links and form submissions should be doable.

I've heard the explanation and I've heard the justifications, but it's still occasionally annoying to actual users of the website.

Right, but complaining about it to someone that spent a small bit of free time reworking the frontpage for fun seems out of place. He probably doesn't have the skills or access to make the changes that you want.

Took me about 10 seconds to locate & fix, and I am not the author :P

http://jsbin.com/ewufof/6/edit

Regarding his whole point of using css, that upvote image should really be a background in the css file and the innerHTML should be text with a negative indent.

Or we could go one step further and replace images with unicode characters: ▲ + ▼

    ▲ - U+25B2 BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE
    ▼ - U+25BC BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE

Like this : http://jsbin.com/ewufof/21/

Just please either don't put them right next to each other or make the vote reversible. I've often accidentally hit the wrong arrow.

So YOU'RE the person downvoting my brilliance! ;)

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