Ask HN: Email updates on comment replies for non-OP?

Posted by ASlave2Gravity on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:51AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I often find threads with a few interesting and promising comments, which I'm assuming will have many replies to the discussion, but always have to remember to check back to the post. Is there any way to 'subscribe' to a comment and get emails when a new comment is added? Or maybe when new comments pass a user-set score threshold? Maybe this could be a browser extension?

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Re:Ask HN: Email updates on comment replies for non-OP? by borjasoler on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:46AM (#21646827)

You can try doing it with Zapier or IFTTT. Looking at IFTTT I have found an applet [1] that can do the trick for it.

[1] https://ifttt.com/applets/gk7AZpcd-get-an-email-when-a-speci...

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Re:Ask HN: Email updates on comment replies for non-OP? by DamonHD on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:01AM (#21646609)

AFAIK there is no easy way to do it: I would like to too!

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Re:Ask HN: Email updates on comment replies for non-OP? by ASlave2Gravity on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:11AM (#21646652)

Ironically, I'm having to constantly check this submission to see if anyone has posted a solution!

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Re:Ask HN: Email updates on comment replies for non-OP? by handoff on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:02PM (#21650268)

This is something a browser extension could easily do

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Re:Ask HN: Email updates on comment replies for non-OP? by tonyHwks on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:20PM (#21659934)

Instead of emails it could show a notification and update its badge

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Re:Ask HN: Email updates on comment replies for non-OP? by ASlave2Gravity on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:13PM (#21677818)

Mmm. Yes. That would be perfect!

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