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

4 points by boju1 ↗ HN
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.

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coopr
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.