Ask HN: Visually highlight the new comments since my last visit ?

4 pointsby boju1vor 17 Jahren4 comments

Sometimes, I read a whole page a comments (+30) and when I come back later and refresh the page, the number of comments has increased.

Is there a quick way to visually highlight the new comments that came up after my last visit to the post page ?

Example: Let's say I visit a thread at 12:03PM. If I come back later, the comments that were made after 12:03PM are light green.

That way, I can quickly read the new ones without reading again what I have read already.

Thanks.

2 comments

cooprvor 17 Jahren

Oh heck yeah, this would make HN WAY more useful to me.

Currently I work around this by forcing myself to wait a while before visiting the comments page, then visiting it just once, because if I come back it is typically too time consuming to scan through and figure out which comments I've read and which are new.

boju1vor 17 Jahren

Booya! Your comment somehow reminded me of a firefox addon I used and I totally forgot about ... until today. I am very happy, thank you.

Here you go: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3362

Screenshot of result: http://www.iconocast.com/B000000000000065/V1/News1_8.jpg

stcredzerovor 17 Jahren

Sounds like a job for a Greasemonkey script

boju1vor 17 Jahren

Yes, that's what I was thinking. Has anyone done it before, or am I the only one frustrated when I follow long comments thread ? How do you guys do to avoid readind the comments again when you come back ?

arantiusvor 17 Jahren

Indeed. Try this one I threw together:

http://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/hacker-news-new-commen...