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Re:Tell HN: Reddit does not allow comments post via old.redd... by moffkalast on Friday May 20, 2022 @05:04AM (#31444954)
Well it actually IS what reddit used to be. It's almost a carbon copy of the early versions before subreddits were a thing, though HN has slightly worse css and usability, presumably to keep out the normies and to make it run from that one raspberry pi that ycombinator has allocated to hosting it.

I do sorta wish HN had reply notifications.

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Re:Tell HN: Reddit does not allow comments post via old.redd... by moehm on Friday May 20, 2022 @05:19AM (#31445056)
> I do sorta wish HN had reply notifications.

There is a 3rd party app for that, though I haven't tried it yet.

https://www.hnreplies.com/

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Re:Tell HN: Reddit does not allow comments post via old.redd... by lproven on Friday May 20, 2022 @07:40AM (#31446005)
I use it. It's excellent and works well.

The only problem with it is that it does not send you replies to your submissions, e.g. AskHN posts.

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Re:Tell HN: Reddit does not allow comments post via old.redd... by robjan on Friday May 20, 2022 @07:22AM (#31445879)
It's by design to make flame wars harder to sustain
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Re:Tell HN: Reddit does not allow comments post via old.redd... by moffkalast on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:37AM (#31448919)
I'd believe that if it wasn't computationally intensive and HN wasn't already struggling under the 5 people that visit. I'm sure it's merely this way to reduce server load.
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