Comment by Tomte
9 years ago
Still, the most urgently needed feature is missing: telling me which comments I haven't seen, yet. It's a constant nuisance in longer threads. Really, this is much more vital than just about every feature you've introduced over the last months.
> Really, this is much more vital than just about every feature you've introduced over the last months
That is a highly disputable claim, given the overall user feedback we've seen.
Such things always remind me of Jerry Weinberg's fable about how he couldn't sleep because a dripping faucet was driving him crazy. He gets up to fix it in the middle of the night, finally gets back to bed, and... now he can't sleep because hears a gate creaking. Moral: when you fix your #1 problem, your #2 problem becomes your #1 problem.
This is definitely on the list.
Try this [0]
0: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...
FYI there's a chrome extension for that though not updated in a while and I didn't use it personally
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-unread-comments...
https://github.com/janhancic/hn-unread-comments
You read my mind. I'd love to see this feature, too.