Will HN ever support email notices to people who start threads or post to threads ... to alert them that new messages have been posted?<p>If not, what about supporting individual RSS feeds for each thread we want to track or intend to participate in?<p>Does anyone else see the value in features like these, or is it just me?
I just received my first email notice from notifo and it's still not clear to me when I will (and will not) receive email notices at HN:<p>Will I get them ONLY when someone replies to a specific post I've made?<p>Will I get them when someone posts a reply in a thread I've created, even though the reply is to someone else's post instead of to mine?<p>Will I get them when someone posts a reply to someone else in a thread that someone else has created?<p>These are just a few of the questions that remain unanswered until I do some more testing ... but my current suspicion is that notifo cannot notify me unless the post is a direct reply to one of my posts.<p>If this is true it means I will NOT get a notice -- even in a thread I created -- when a reply is made to someone else's post.<p>And if this is the case it will fail to notify me of all the HN activity I want to be notified about.<p>:(
Have a look at the Notifo field in your profile. Then do something like:<p><a href="https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+notifo" rel="nofollow">https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anews....</a><p>You will received notifications of replies -- to your comments, at least; I presume also to posts/threads that you start.<p>EDIT: I should add that there is an email notification option (as opposed to IM, SMS, or whatever). You may have to look a bit on the Notifo site to find it, IIRC.