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Comment by Reedx | Hacker News Reader

A lot.

I actually optimize for the comments, heh. I open HN links in new tabs and then wait a day or two for the discussion to complete before reading through them. So I don't end up refreshing for new comments or re-reading the same ones.

There are a couple downsides to this though: One, I generally miss the window for participation. Two, my browser is perpetually filled with dozens of HN tabs.

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There are browser extensions that mitigate both of your reasons to delay reading the comments. I use hckr news (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...), which does the following:

- Highlight any comments added since the last time you loaded the page with a little vertical orange bar.

- Change the hckrnews.com comment count display to show the number of unread comments in addition to the number of total comments.

If you're on Chrome, you might like the "Tab Snooze" extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebia...

Thanks! That looks nifty, I'll try it out.

Good comment but I think you missed an important part of the question. Unless you're dang's alt account.

I don't know who dang is, and I don't go on HN enough for it to really matter to me. I'm not really part of the HN culture, I just come here for the occasional new software that might be of interest to me. It's likely there's a lot of people in the same boat including the person you responded to.

The topic is "Ask dang", which I think Reedx misread as "Ask HN". That's all I'm saying.

Not sure why your comment's light grey, but dang is... a/the moderator or the guy who runs HN or? I know it's something like that, and I just tried to look it up so I could tell you definitively, but I can't seem to find it stated explicitly anywhere here. Seems fair that a casual site user wouldn't know, if I'm not even entirely certain, and I'm on here every day.

edit: OK, I found https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac... which says he's "in charge of the HN community". (I kind of wish I didn't have to turn to a 2 year old blog post to see that stated.)

Ha, oops, I totally misread or glossed over the "Ask dang" part of it. I didn't grok that it was referring to a specific HN user.

You were right to comment! Perhaps we should s/dang/HN/ in the title.

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