I've realized that it's hard for me to remember many of the comments I have read on HN, or Lobste.rs.<p>I can remember the articles and that are linked, but not the discussion about the articles.
This sucks since the discussion adds nuance and background to the article that is helpful.<p>Have other people noticed this, and if so, why do you think it happens?
Is it a UI issue (maybe mental energy is wasted keeping track of where we are in the comment tree)? Or is it a cognitive issue (just pay more attention)?
I favourite them - as simple as that. It keeps things contained on HN and connected to HN and that's how I prefer it. Also I have them handy when I'm on the site and can look things up when writing my own comments. When I'm not on HN I don't need the favourites and should HN ever die I'll probably not need them anymore anyway. I think you can easily fetch them as JSON with the API should you want to have them offline. Only downside I can think off is if you want to remember a comment privately for some reason, but that never happened to me so far.
My upvotes are automatically saved in Histre (which I built) and a few of my friends follow me so they see my upvotes <a href="https://histre.com/features/share-hackernews-upvotes/" rel="nofollow">https://histre.com/features/share-hackernews-upvotes/</a><p>I use Histre to save and tag useful comments if I think I'll need to refer to them again.
Usually I don't remember them because deep down I know don't need the information I just fed my stupid dopamine driven monkey brain with. I don't have to remember what a random person (or bot!?) said on the Internet about a random topic so it gets filtered in that manner and thrown away by this same brain. Sometime a message is so strong it gets through this filter, that is all.