Yesterday, I got lost track of the HN post comments.<p>I fixed that problem → http://hntoast.com<p>I make this in the last couple of hours. So, if you have any feature requests or feedback.<p>Let me know your thought about this tool.
One of the things I positively like about Hacker News is the complete lack of notifications or tools to make it easy to see when someone has replied to me.
I use <a href="https://hnrss.org/replies?id=timvisee" rel="nofollow">https://hnrss.org/replies?id=timvisee</a> in an RSS reader (Thunderbird in my case). Then I get alerted for comments. Much better!<p>See <a href="https://hnrss.github.io/#reply-feeds" rel="nofollow">https://hnrss.github.io/#reply-feeds</a>
So this will not show me replies to my comments, it is just showing comments with different layout? It's not very clear from title and description.<p>I am following my comments through threads button in top, though it's not so easy to notice which have new reply and everything need to be checked manually.
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=petodo" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=petodo</a><p>I wish there was some service where you enter your HN username and it would show you newest replies to all your comments.
To get automated email notifications of replies to your comments see <a href="http://www.hnreplies.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hnreplies.com/</a><p>2,578 HN Users Signed Up / 10,453 Reply Notifications Sent in Past 30 Days<p>Created by Dan Grossman
I like that HN didn’t act like other forums where 2 commentators go on a long threaded discussion. I like the fact that other people pick up the idea and carry it in the comments.<p>If HNers wanted notifications they would’ve implemented it in the last decade.
Nice! Can you add the <a href="https://hntoast.com" rel="nofollow">https://hntoast.com</a> URL to this post in the URL section? I had to copy-paste it.
Interesting idea!<p>A tiny nit - computers are good at things, so the input box could easily take either a post id - eg 34520664 - or, for ease of use, the whole url - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34520664" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34520664</a> - and then do the trivial string manipulation to extract out the id.<p>Saves the bit of friction going copying address bar to using hntoast.<p>Just my 2 cents.
I use this Safari extension (mac / iOS) to see new HN comments.<p><a href="https://apps.apple.com/be/app/hacker-news-comments/id1602932281?l=nl" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/be/app/hacker-news-comments/id1602932...</a>
Good stuff. Fonts could be a rendered a little bigger. Also, allow me to choose a handful of themes for better display spacing, minimal coloring between comments for better readability?