Ask HN: How do you track comment threads in HN?

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  • hn-comments-owl

    Discontinued Browser extension which makes it easer to follow comment threads on Hacker News across multiple visits, allows you to annotate and mute users, and other UI tweaks and mobile UX improvements [Moved to: https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news]

    I use a plugin that shows new comment counts since my last visit and that highlights new comments[0].

    HN is beta testing a similar feature. I'd encourage them to add the new comment count as well if they haven't.

    [0]https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl

  • trakum

    Track changes to websites

    I made a Greasemonkey script to do this in 2008:

    https://gist.github.com/wayneburkett/0ce15042ee06931069bfb12...

    It has been on my project list to turn this into a proper extension that could be used on any website for more than a decade and I actually started working on it again recently, which led to a fun commit message when I restarted the project:

    > Convert the user script to a chrome extension …

    > This is a pretty straightforward port. In 12 years there'd been only a minor change to the DOM on HN comment pages. I also needed to port the Greasemonkey get/setValue methods to Chrome's local storage. And create the rest of the extension boilerplate. But that's about it!

    > What's fun about this is that Chrome's first stable release was on the day before this original user script was released. Chrome extensions weren't released until more than a year later.

    > So this Chrome extension predates Chrome extensions by about a year.

    https://github.com/wayneburkett/trakum/commit/9312dd1b283769...

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