Is there some way for using Hacker News with a “mark as read” function?

Question

basically in Reddit enhancement suite you can filter comments to only show comments that are &ldquo;unread&rdquo;, you click on a comment to mark it as read (or with email when clicking on a message marks it as read and you can even mark it as unread).Is there something like that for hacker news? (a browser addon or some custom client).

gabrielsroka · Accepted Answer

Yes, I emailed the mods and got added to the alpha program for this in April 2020 [0]. When I visit a page a second time, any new comments have an orange bar next to them. I don't find it very useful, but I'm sure the team would take your feedback. Eg, I visit a page for the first time and it has 100 comments. I come back later and it has 103 comments. I have to scroll through the entire page to find the 3 new comments and re-grok their context.
From dang (mod) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788678
[0] Email from April 2020:
> New feature: when you visit a thread, the software now highlights comments that are new since you last viewed the page. These are displayed with an orange (or whatever your topcolor is) bar to the left of the new comment. Refreshing the page will reset these.
> This will only work when you're logged in with your account that has this email address (and which we've marked as an alpha tester.)

Leparamour · Answer

I never understood why HN didn't have a simple "sort by new" function for comments.It would even help keeping the conversation alive when you can easily find a relevant reply nested 5 levels deep.

password4321 · Answer

https://github.com/etcet/HNESdid a quick scan through the awesome lists and found a couple other options.https://github.com/bminusl/awesome-hackernewshttps://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news

DoreenMichele · Answer

You can click on the minus sign in the comment to collapse it and all replies to it. You won't see new replies to old comments but you will see only new top level comments for that discussion (assuming you've collapsed all comments so far).
The minus sign is in brackets like this: [ - ]
After you click it, it says "x number of replies" basically (in the form of the number of replies and the word more).

CloudBuddy · Answer

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mark-all-as-read/h...

DonCopal · Answer

Yes, there is a way. Bookmark the thread, leave it a week or so, and then read the thread normally because there won't be any new comments anymore. Certainly it's not the end of the world if you leave a thread to mature.

freediver · Answer

You can use https://tinygem.org to get the next best (better?) thing (disclaimer: creator)

rasz · Answer

like this https://github.com/raszpl/hackahackernews ?

coopreme · Answer

Use the HACK app

jmercouris · Answer

You can use a bookmarklet that blocks out already clicked URLs. You can use the 'hide visited' bookmarklet on this page https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagelinks.html