YC News Tracker: A better way to read comments

http://www.selfdebugging.com/2007/10/09/yc-news-tracker-a-better-way-to-read-comments/

by waleedka • 19 years ago

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gibsonf12• 19 years ago

Thanks Waleed - nice work!

waleedka8• 19 years ago

It was fun to write. Ideas for improvement are welcome. As well as bug reports.

yubrew• 19 years ago

Thanks! This will help keep track of the hundreds of new comments when pg posts a new essay.

It would be nice to have something that lists the monitored threads. For instance, if I wanted to track the progress of this thread, it would be a lot easier to have a list from YC Tracker bookmarklet than to remember and search for the title "YC News Tracker blah blah."

waleedka8• 19 years ago

That would be really nice. I'm storing the thread IDs in cookies, so I have a list of them. But I'm not storing the thread titles. If I do, the cookie might get big if you track a lot of threads. And, since cookies are sent to the server on every request, a big cookie could affect performance (although it's probably not noticeable at all on broadband). I'll have to think more about it. And, maybe check if I can have the cookies be set to client-only. If that's doable, it'll solve the problem.

akkartik7• 19 years ago

What you really need is a greasemonkey plugin :)

gibsonf12• 19 years ago

Another nice feature would be to have the comment notification automatically show on monitored threads without having to re-click the YC Tracker toolbar link.

waleedka8• 19 years ago

Unfortunately, that's not possible with a bookmarklet because it doesn't execute unless you click it.

akkartik7• 19 years ago

A simple greasemonkey plugin: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65382

matth• 19 years ago

Unrelated but relevant: YC Application Word Count

http://www.commonplacelog.com/ycbookmarklet.html

YC News Tracker: A better way to read comments

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