Yes, like you I use favourite routinely. Please don't remove it.
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts
by emerongi on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:06PM
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Favourite is great. I use it sparingly for obvious reasons - I only want truly important items in my favourites list.
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts
by mmsimanga on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:46PM
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Save is a better name. OP has updated list of favourite stories and many of the Ask HN posts make the list because they often yield a lot of useful information in the comments. I use SQL on a daily basis so most of my favourites are SQL stories. I use favourite to bookmark post and comments.
I frequently go back to these stories, whereas I don't often care to find things I upvoted again. If the two features become conflated, I'll probably stop upvoting so that I can use upvoted stories and posts as a bookmarking system.
Please keep favorite stories and posts around.
If you're worried about feature utilization, maybe name it "save" for better discoverability. That's essentially what I use the feature for.
I don't trust or use browser bookmarks much anymore. HN favorites are high quality bookmarks that work across all my browsers and devices.