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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 threa
by yubrew 19y 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."
- waleedka 19y agoThat 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.
- akkartik 19y agoWhat you really need is a greasemonkey plugin :)
- waleedka 19y agoIt's worth mentioning here that akkartik has built a really cool tool that shows the changes on any web page since the last time you visited it. And, it works automatically because it's a plugin, not a bookmarklet. Check it out: http://hystry.com/ http://hystry.com/
- akkartik 19y agoI just pushed all the javascript into a .user.js file and put in the correct header, and got a working greasemonkey plugin: http://akkartik.name/newsyc-comment-tracker.user.js http://akkartik.name/newsyc-comment-tracker.user.js Wow! Currently autoadds every comment thread you ever visit. I'll add support for seeing monitored threads now, and maybe deleting some threads if others want that. It's still Waleed's baby, though.
- waleedka 19y agoSuper. Thanks akkartik. Can't wait to see the monitored threads list, that would be awesome.
- akkartik 19y agoDone. http://akkartik.name/newsyc-comment-tracker2.user.js http://akkartik.name/newsyc-comment-tracker2.user.js
- waleedka 19y agoWow, very nice. Althogh my 'break time' link is gone :(. But, still, I really like it. Thanks a bunch.
- waleedka 19y agoOne little feature request. Can you list the threads in descending order by time of visit? This way, the ones I visit last show at the top. I think it can be done if you attach the time-stamp to the cookie, and then order by it.
- akkartik 19y agoYeah, let me look into it. New version with delete by cookie. http://akkartik.name/newsyc-comment-tracker3.user.js http://akkartik.name/newsyc-comment-tracker3.user.js