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Is there something like that for hacker news? (a browser addon or some custom client).
You can use a bookmarklet that blocks out already clicked URLs. You can use the 'hide visited' bookmarklet on this page https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagelinks.html
I don't want to hide URL's i want to hide comments.
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?
How much would you pay for this?
IDK, why do you ask? probably not enough to fund someone to work on this.
You can click on the minus sign in the comment to collapse it and all replies to it. You won't see new replies to old comments but you will see only new top level comments for that discussion (assuming you've collapsed all comments so far).
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).
Yes, I emailed the mods and got added to the alpha program for this in April 2020 [0]. When I visit a page a second time, any new comments have an orange bar next to them. I don't find it very useful, but I'm sure the team would take your feedback. Eg, I visit a page for the first time and it has 100 comments. I come back later and it has 103 comments. I have to scroll through the entire page to find the 3 new comments and re-grok their context.
From dang (mod) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788678
[0] Email from April 2020:
Is the alpha stable? can i opted in and out easily like the reddit beta?
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.
I'm not sure. Why don't you email the mods and ask them?
I never understood why HN didn't have a simple "sort by new" function for comments.
It would even help keeping the conversation alive when you can easily find a relevant reply nested 5 levels deep.
Yes, there is a way. Bookmark the thread, leave it a week or so, and then read the thread normally because there won't be any new comments anymore. Certainly it's not the end of the world if you leave a thread to mature.
https://github.com/etcet/HNES
did a quick scan through the awesome lists and found a couple other options.
https://github.com/bminusl/awesome-hackernews
https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mark-all-as-read/h...
Use the HACK app
You can use https://tinygem.org to get the next best (better?) thing (disclaimer: creator)
like this https://github.com/raszpl/hackahackernews ?