Bakkot comments on Open thread, August 4 - 10, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 11 August 2014 03:38:46AM *  1 point [-]

The use case is that I go to the top page of a huge thread, the only new messages are under a "Continue this thread" link, and I want the widget to tell me that there are new messages and help me find them. I don't want to have to open every "Continue" link to see if there are new messages under one of them.

Comment author: Bakkot 11 August 2014 04:48:01AM 0 points [-]

Ah. That's much more work, since there's no way of knowing if there's new comments in such a situation without fetching all of those pages. I might make that happen at some point, but not tonight.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 August 2014 04:49:53PM 1 point [-]

Thanks very much. I think there's an "unpack the whole page" program somewhere. Anyone remember it?