YC Feature Request: Marking new comments from last visit
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Already done:
By creating a bookmark in FireFox (best on the bookmarks toolbar) and pasting the code linked below as its location, you can highlight new comments. So, once the new bookmarklet is pressed, at top right of a HN article will show 'started tracking,' 'no new comments' or 'x new comments,' with new comments emboldened.
http://dpaste.com/hold/58840/
By creating a bookmark in FireFox (best on the bookmarks toolbar) and pasting the code linked below as its location, you can highlight new comments. So, once the new bookmarklet is pressed, at top right of a HN article will show 'started tracking,' 'no new comments' or 'x new comments,' with new comments emboldened.
http://dpaste.com/hold/58840/
I'd much rather see this done on the server side.
according to pg feature requests don't belong on the front page. There is a separate section for that.
Maybe the SearchYC guys have the data logging tools to make this necessary. This could probably be implemented as a greasemonkey script. This would be much easier if the exact timestamp of the comment was available in the source of the site itself.
I think an easy solution that would go most of the way would be the ability to order comments by latest which flattens out the threading. Would be a nice compromise and trivially implemented.
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Thanks.