YC Feature Request: Marking new comments from last visit

9 points by lapenne 18y ago ↗ HN

I frequently read comments for some story and then come back some time later. It would be really nice if the comments posted from the last time checked would be somehow marked (maybe the poster's name in some other color, a 'new' sign -- or something else, it doesn't really matter.)

Thanks.

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adrianwaj 18y ago ↗

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/

mdemare 18y ago ↗

I'd much rather see this done on the server side.

cstejerean 18y ago ↗

according to pg feature requests don't belong on the front page. There is a separate section for that.

rms 18y ago ↗

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

nirmal 18y ago ↗

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.

immad 18y ago ↗

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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