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Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by jacquesm on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @08:25AM (#24352530)
Hidden? They're in plain sight at the top of every article page.
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by avree on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:31AM (#24353011)
I've used this website since 2010 and just realized it was a feature. Maybe I'm just unobservant...
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by narag on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:53AM (#24353203)
It's relatively new. Before we used upvotes. Actually I still don't use it and keep using upvotes to favourite stories. I'm sorry for that and even worse: sometimes I upvote a story without following the link, just using the upvote as a "read later" bookmark because I found the title intriguing. Not so bad is when I upvote because there's a very interesting comment, even though the article itself is crappy.

Time ago someone posted a script that collects upvoted stories, but I can't find it now, it's in one of those upvoted stories O:) I guess I could make a conversion... but there are probably more than a thousand upvoted stories, I don't know.

Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by mindcrime on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:44AM (#24353759)
Actually I still don't use it and keep using upvotes to favourite stories. I'm sorry for that

So do I, but I'm not going to apologize for it. Upvoting is the fastest and more convenient way to save a story as "read later", so it's what I do. If they would add the "favorite" link to the front-page items, I'd use it instead of upvoting.

Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by mikestew on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:57AM (#24353255)
Not so bad is when I upvote because there's a very interesting comment

If you didn’t know, you can “favorite” comments, too.

Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by narag on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:12PM (#24358196)
That has become my favorite comment :)
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by jacquesm on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:24AM (#24353567)
It's not the most used function because browsers already have a 'favorite' function, bookmarks. I used a scrapbook extension in FireFox for years so even though I know it existed I've never used it. But this post actually serves to shine some light on it and I'll give it a shot for a few weeks to see how well it works for me. HN has some amazing threads every now and then and it is really worth remembering those.
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by jedberg on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:14AM (#24354033)
Same here. Been here since the first week of HN, just learned about favorites.
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by krapp on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @08:51AM (#24352680)
HN's minimalist UI designed to make elements unobtrusive and sometimes difficult to see, and new features being mentioned only in a single thread means most users will just not notice. It also doesn't help that HN is a conservative culture generally antagonistic towards any change to the layout, and people wouldn't want to notice those changes to begin with.

I've seen people not notice thread folding or the hide feature despite those also being "in plain sight." People don't know threads can span multiple pages - dang has to go out of his way to point that out because despite the UI being exactly the same as on the list pages, a "more" link at the bottom of the page, no one ever reads past the first thirty links on those pages to begin with.

Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by TheRealPomax on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:03AM (#24353940)
Those are not mutually exclusive facts. You're zero words away from the phrase "hidden in plain sight".
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by bmitc on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:30AM (#24353626)
To favorite a comment, you need to click on the time to be shown the favorite option.
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by tlarkworthy on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @08:33AM (#24352578)
See other comments. Maybe higher friction would be a better phrase
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by spicymaki on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:16AM (#24352889)
The favorite feature is hidden in plain sight.