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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by greggarious on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:54AM (#17464228)
Thanks, that is useful but I upvote lots of stuff so a separate saved list can also be useful :)

For now, I have a bookmarks folder for stuff like this.

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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by dang on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:17PM (#17465980)
The 'favorites' feature is a saved list. It's not widely used. Maybe we should promote it, or maybe get rid of it.
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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by mindcrime on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:33PM (#17466114)
My humble suggestion(s) to make "favorites" more useful (and hopefully more used):

1. add the ability to "favorite" from the front page. I rarely "favorite" anything, because I grew accustomed to using "upvote" as the mechanism to save stories. I would switch, but that extra little bit of friction of needing to click through first, means I stick with my old habit.

2. Add "favorite" for comments as well.

3. (maybe) - consider renaming "favorite" to "save"? Possibly people who are used to seeing the "save" link on Reddit would find that more intuitive.

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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by js2 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:51PM (#17466247)
You can favorite comments but you have to click their timestamp first. It's really hidden. I think most people don't know about the feature.

dang: if you get rid of it please don't do so w/o notice so that those of us who do use it can export the links first.

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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by mindcrime on Thursday July 05, 2018 @05:29PM (#17466996)
You can favorite comments but you have to click their timestamp first. It's really hidden.

Heh, there ya go. I'm one of the people who uses the favorite feature (albeit sporadically) and I didn't even know you could do that.

Yeah, surfacing the UI element for "favorite" to make it easier to find would, IMO, make it a lot more usable.

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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by Jach on Thursday July 05, 2018 @04:55PM (#17466763)
I'd cast my vote for promoting it more, it's a pretty handy feature (at least for comments)... I also like that it lists things in the order of recently favorited rather than chronologically.
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