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by gabrielsroka
1880 days ago
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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: > New feature: when you visit a thread, the software now highlights
comments that are new since you last viewed the page. These are
displayed with an orange (or whatever your topcolor is) bar to the
left of the new comment. Refreshing the page will reset these. > This will only work when you're logged in with your account that has
this email address (and which we've marked as an alpha tester.) |
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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.