Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts
by avree on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:31AM
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I've used this website since 2010 and just realized it was a feature. Maybe I'm just unobservant...
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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
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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
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Not so bad is when I upvote because there's a very interesting comment
If you didn’t know, you can “favorite” comments, too.
That has become my favorite comment :)
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts
by jacquesm on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:24AM
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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.