It's like a combination of gmail and RSS that allows me to see updates in chronological order, and with all the context for each comment. The arc community's still small enough that I'm pretty certain to see people's updates, including to comments I've made. As it grows I can start filtering by stories or by commenters:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71827
Like I said in the slideshow, it's just an extra set of mechanisms. I switch between the two interfaces all the time as I read.
Try it out, and if you don't like it I'd love to hear why. There's only a handful of people using it (but already a couple who like it a lot), so the app's really responsive to feedback :)
Well, I think this is a pretty simple and useful feature that should just be built into the forum - it's just a different ordering on the 'threads' link.
In other words, I want the content to be identical to what is on the 'threads' link, but in a simple, sequential list with most recent at the top. If your tool can do that, I'd love to see a URL to do it.
Oh, so even if there's a child that's new you want the whole thread to move up?
That's a good request. Yeah, go to PG :) Doesn't make sense to ask people to login/type in a username a second time for my interface. And there's no other way to tell who you are.
Hmm, it might be doable as a greasemonkey script. But that'll only reorder threads on the first page..
It shows all threads involving you in reverse chronological order. It doesn't show trees, instead it shows each leaf and the context includes path to root.
Cool, I actually found a comment on that URL that I had missed. The reason I missed it is because it wasn't in my 'threads' area because it was a reply to someone else's comment, not mine.
Apparently the 'threads' link won't show comments to your own submissions unless you're in a comment thread, but I'm generally interested in any comment to one of my submissions (hmm... that could get lengthy though :( )
Your ordering is quite what I had in mind. I was basically looking for:
1) collect all comments that are either on one of my submissions or threads.
2) sort in reverse chronological order
