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Ask HN: Can I upvote submissions while offline?

1 points by orschiro ↗ HN
Imagine the following scenario:

1. Open Hacker News in a new tab

2. Go offline

3. Read through the submissions and give your votes

4. Go online

5. Automatically submit and sync my given votes

10 comments

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brudgers
Why can't you?
orschiro
For me, it does not work in Chrome. The votes are not shown is counted if I reload HN.
brudgers
Have you tried coding something up?
orschiro
No, I am technically not skilled enough to do that. :-(
brudgers
Ok. So why doesn't voting offline work?
orschiro
I don't know. It just doesn't. If I vote offline, go online and then refresh the page, I can see that it did not count the votes.
brudgers
How can Hacker News record your votes if you are offline?
orschiro
That is exactly my question if there is a way to schedule offline actions (such as voting) and then release them when online again.
brudgers
It would require learning to write code that solves the problem of why Hacker News does not count votes made offline. It's probably something that a motivated person can hack up, but it would require independent effort to gain an understanding of how websites and HTTP work.

Good luck.