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Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? by canada_dry on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:04AM (#22177618)
Playing devils advocate, I'd really prefer this kind of functionality as a separate browser add-on - i.e. unlinked to my reddit signon.

For privacy you needn't require the reddit ID of your users. Simply that they want to save something from reddit to their tryunearth.com account.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? by cedricium on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:42AM (#22177811)
I appreciate you raising this concern, I honestly never thought about that.

> Simply that they want to save something from reddit to their tryunearth.com account

When you say that, I envision the extension overriding or extending Reddit's save button functionality by making an API call to the unearth backend. Is that kinda what you had in mind?

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? by p0sixlang on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:00PM (#22195520)
Exactly. Have an initial import functionality in onboarding, where the user could somehow import their currently saved content. Thereafter you could have an extension that implements a 'save to unearth' button cleanly into reddit's UI.
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