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Re:Show HN: Don't lose track of HN post comments by twic on Thursday January 26, 2023 @09:30AM (#34531984)
A consequence of the current system is that it's impractical for an active user to have long-running conversations. As soon as a comment of mine has scrolled off the first page of threads, i'll almost never see a reply to it.

I would want to be very confident that this was a bad thing before "fixing" it. HN's current culture must inevitably be shaped by this effect. How would it change if it was removed? I'm not sure i want HN to become another forum where pairs of people get into long back-and-forths.

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Re:Show HN: Don't lose track of HN post comments by kazinator on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:12AM (#34533626)
I don't see how hntoast is going to address this problem. Say someone just replied to a comment of mine I made a month ago. Where do I see it?

The user interface you need to solve that problem is to be able to put in your user ID to see a timeline of all replies to any of your items whatsoever, not replies to a specific post.

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Re:Show HN: Don't lose track of HN post comments by twic on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:46PM (#34535425)
> The user interface you need to solve that problem is to be able to put in your user ID to see a timeline of all replies to any of your items whatsoever, not replies to a specific post.

Or, as petodo put it in the comment i was replying to:

> some service where you enter your HN username and it would show you newest replies to all your comments.

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