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Re:Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expen... by striking on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:23PM (#32037290)
To my knowledge, there is a combination of specific views on the site that highlight important features of the site (an obvious example might be the list of flagged comments; a less-obvious example might be https://news.ycombinator.com/topcomments which shows the top-most comment of each front page item) as well as email alerts from a variety of sources, some of those being user-driven.
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Re:Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expen... by cmonnow on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:35PM (#32037419)
in order to read your reply to my comment, i had to :

- click on my user name

- click on comments

- search/scroll to this thread and see your reply

I don't get notified of comment replies like on reddit. there is no slack/email page of DMs/PMs.

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Re:Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expen... by effingwewt on Saturday July 09, 2022 @03:03PM (#32038250)
You can just click the 'threads' link at the top left and it'll show you your comments and nested replies.

I had no idea about this until someone mentioned it. Prior to that I couldn't be bothered very often to check my comments for replies. It was too many steps and made me feel narcissistic for doing all that just to see.

edit- spelling.

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Re:Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expen... by striking on Saturday July 09, 2022 @02:05PM (#32037723)
You can refresh your replies list over time, or you can sign up for Notify HN or any similar service that notifies you via email.
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