[striking]

Unless you use https://www.hnreplies.com/, you don't get a notification for when someone has replied to your comment. Even then it is as an email, decreasing immediacy and causing back and forth sessions to have overhead.

I understand this as an intentional feature of HN.

[sankalpb]

thanks, I hadn't known about this service!

[JohnL4]

Me too. :-)