Ask HN: Tool to follow or favorite HN users?

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So far, I just bookmark the respective "/user?id=" URL, but I still have to periodically check their submissions manually. Would be nice if there were a Chrome extension or Greasemonkey script. Anyone else do this?

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Hacker News RSS feeds "provides custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News", including for user posts and comments:

https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

Fantastic! Thanks...

Just curious, why do you "follow" HN users?

Personally, HN is where the content is the most important thing, usually disregarding the poster, but I'm interested in your view.

I haven't been doing it long, but it came to mind after noticing a user with a ton of karma & being interested in many of their previous submissions. Then I realized I'd seen patterns before when reading other users' submissions- someone with lots of AI/ML -related stuff for example. But I never bookmarked them so I feel like I'll miss out on others' themed contributions unless I bookmark & look regularly.

If you upvote/favorite enough comments & stories, you will observe a few recurring usernames. It would be good to have a view/feed of their stories & comments. For that matter, since favorites are public, it would be useful to see analytics based on favorited comments & stories.

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