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Comment author: pdf23ds 02 October 2009 02:46:51AM *  6 points [-]

What's the best way to follow the new comments on a thread you've already read through? How do you keep up with which ones are new? It'd be nice if there were a non-threaded view. RSS feed?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 02 October 2009 11:54:59AM 1 point [-]

Scanning through the new comments page is probably your best bet, though I wish there was a better solution.

Comment author: matt 11 October 2009 08:08:28PM 0 points [-]

Any ideas for a better solution? The devs are busy, but they're listening (and if the devs don't have time, the code is open).

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 27 October 2009 11:05:06AM 2 points [-]

My thought would be a "recent posts in your subscribed threads" kind of a feature, as they have on forums. In other words, an ability to add specific posts to a personal watchlist, and then have a page like the "new comments page" that only shows comments to posts on your watchlist.

Comment author: pdf23ds 11 October 2009 11:19:50PM *  2 points [-]

My idea would be to just have a link to a article-specific "recent comments" page on each article.

(But if they're going to work on anything, they might want to work first on the bug I posted about elsewhere in this thread.)

Comment author: matt 13 October 2009 03:23:31AM 1 point [-]

(But if they're going to work on anything, they might want to work first on the bug I posted about elsewhere in this thread.)

Hmm… raised as Issue 194

Comment author: Jonii 13 October 2009 03:36:02AM 0 points [-]

Something like the playback-feature on Google Wave would rock. Some neat way to specify that you only want to see(or highlight) comments that were made after some specific time would also be nice.

Comment author: matt 14 October 2009 01:46:11AM 0 points [-]

Something like the playback-feature on Google Wave would rock.

Yes, that would rock. Unfortunately it's not a small feature.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 04 October 2009 08:13:54PM *  0 points [-]

What's the best way to follow the new comments on a thread you've already read through? How do you keep up with which ones are new?

Kaj's suggestion (http://lesswrong.com/comments/) is your best bet, but there is another option that might merit consideration: if you happen to know that a new relevant comment is likely to be authored by JohnJones or Sally_Smith, keep an eye on the following 2 non-threaded views:

http://lesswrong.com/user/JohnJones

http://lesswrong.com/user/Sally_Smith

Pages like those 2 have RSS feeds associated with them, BTW. But, yeah, it would be nice if there were more options.

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