Ask HN: How to save old stories on HN?

2 pointsby davidwparker11 tahun yang lalu2 comments

I often bookmark a few HN articles I want to read that I don't have time to read at the time.

When I finally get around to reading them, it may be 30+ days later. I've found that HN doesn't allow old articles to be saved (upvoted).

I can understand they don't want someone going through and up or downvoting old articles; however, the fact that the upvote button doubles as "saved stories" creates a problem for me, as I now want to save that article, but have no way to do so.

So my option is to either bookmark the article, or email it to myself, or something along those lines.

Long ago, I'd use a service such as del.icio.us for saving articles, but no longer have that option.

Anyone else experience the same issue and have a decent solution?

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teleclimber11 tahun yang lalu

I use getpocket.com for that. Doubles as offline reading app for long plane rides :)

I also just installed "Hacker News Discussion" Chrome extension which shows whether there are HN comments for any webpage I visit. This should be a very handy way to go back to comments for an article I am reading much later.

a3n11 tahun yang lalu

I use pinboard.in for probably what you used to use delicious for.

It's a one time fee of about $9 (haven't looked recently).

I'll bookmark an article there, or they also have a read later feature. If the HN discussion is relevant enough to why I bookmarked the article, I'll paste the HN link in to the bookmark note field.

If you pay a small yearly recurring fee to pinboard, then when you bookmark a page, they'll also save the contents of the page, in case the page disappears.