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Ask HN: How do you track replies to your comments and posts on HN?

Posted by matanrubin on Sunday August 16, 2020 @01:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.
AFAIK HN doesn't have any convenient way of being notified when someone replies to a comment or a post you made.

I find myself checking my posts and comments every once in a while to see if anything changed, which feels kinda rediculuos.

Am I missing some hidden HN feature? How do you handle that?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you track replies to your comments and pos... by stevekemp on Sunday August 16, 2020 @02:50AM (#24175808)
I use https://hnrss.org/ along with a simple tool to send emails when the feed has new items.

(i.e. Comment-replies become emails.)

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Re:Ask HN: How do you track replies to your comments and pos... by rajnathani on Sunday August 16, 2020 @01:46AM (#24175526)
hnreplies.com [0] is a third party tool which quite a few people on HN [1] seem to use for this purpose.

Edit: I just noticed that this tool is made by dang.

[0] http://hnreplies.com/

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you track replies to your comments and pos... by greenyoda on Sunday August 16, 2020 @02:21AM (#24175690)
> I just noticed that this tool is made by dang.

The site says HN Replies was made by Dan Grossman, who is not the HN moderator 'dang'.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you track replies to your comments and pos... by rajnathani on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:39AM (#24176234)
My bad. Thanks for pointing this out!
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Re:Ask HN: How do you track replies to your comments and pos... by matanrubin on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:12AM (#24177960)
Awesome, this looks like exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
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