Are you sure RSS won’t work for you? I follow LW and a bunch of other sites/feeds in a feed reader (Feedly). I scan all of my feeds in a big ‘oldest first’ list, read most in the reader, but sometimes look at posts on their original sites (via a keyboard shortcut consisting of a single key) – the latter seems like a perfectly fine way to read comments (when I want to).
Or do you need or want to follow comments too, i.e. comments made after you read the original post? I think a lot of sites have comments feeds, so that should be possible via RSS too. I don’t do this tho. I do selectively subscribe to comments for specific posts, but typically via email. On some sites, including LW, I only get new comments via on-site or in-app notifications, which mostly seems fine.
Sadly not. I like RSS (and have it for curated posts), but I got a lot of value from browsing ‘Recent Discussion’ on LW (both that comments are often very good, and it’s a major way that I find posts I want to read). And I heavily use quality-of-life features like pop-up links when scanning updates
I think there’s a way to submit feature requests to the LW dev(s). An RSS feed for ‘Recent Discussion’ should be possible.
And, as I wrote before, I sometimes look at posts on their original sites – LW is one for which I do this a lot of the time (e.g. so I can vote or comment).
Are you sure RSS won’t work for you? I follow LW and a bunch of other sites/feeds in a feed reader (Feedly). I scan all of my feeds in a big ‘oldest first’ list, read most in the reader, but sometimes look at posts on their original sites (via a keyboard shortcut consisting of a single key) – the latter seems like a perfectly fine way to read comments (when I want to).
Or do you need or want to follow comments too, i.e. comments made after you read the original post? I think a lot of sites have comments feeds, so that should be possible via RSS too. I don’t do this tho. I do selectively subscribe to comments for specific posts, but typically via email. On some sites, including LW, I only get new comments via on-site or in-app notifications, which mostly seems fine.
Sadly not. I like RSS (and have it for curated posts), but I got a lot of value from browsing ‘Recent Discussion’ on LW (both that comments are often very good, and it’s a major way that I find posts I want to read). And I heavily use quality-of-life features like pop-up links when scanning updates
I think there’s a way to submit feature requests to the LW dev(s). An RSS feed for ‘Recent Discussion’ should be possible.
And, as I wrote before, I sometimes look at posts on their original sites – LW is one for which I do this a lot of the time (e.g. so I can vote or comment).