That's not obvious or useful (and neither is notifo). Really it should email you about replies if you enter your email address in the 'email address' field.
To be honest HN is sucky in many ways (very buggy with crappy UX). Kind of ironic really.
This thread is from three days ago. That's ancient history on this forum. It is page 2 of my own comments. So I only know you replied to me because of the service you are dissing.
I had left another remark elsewhere in this discussion then deleted it because I didn't feel well and decided the less said by me, the better. I still don't feel well and for that reason was simply going to not reply.
My deleted remark was to the effect that HN has a business purpose for Y Combinator in that it is used as part of their applicant screening process. However, it is not something drectly monetized and is a side project and free service. A lot of the issues here are known issues and have been known a long time. But fixing them is not a high priority for the people who run the site, thus the community copes as bet it can. This thread is an example of one of the coping mechanisms employed by the community.
Paul Graham has better things to do than worry about your ungrateful critisms. Frankly, so do I. I am getting well from a deadly medical condition which has left me deeply in debt and homeless. I need to be trying to figure out how to get traffic and monetize my websites, not coddling some spoiled hypercritical noob (dwj's account is currently 21 hours old and this is their second comment).
Actually I've been coming to HN on and off for years...I eventually get put off by the bugs. I just chose to register a different username yesterday. I also wouldn't say I'm hypercritical in pointing out serious flaws that have been there for years. I like to keep my products at zero known bugs and it irks me when I have to use a buggy product. Sorry to hear about your health problems...
Have an upvote (for civility). But you still sound kind of spoiled to me. I have insanely high standards as well, which have allowed me to get well when doctors say it cannot be done. Yet, doing so has prevented me from being as accomplished as I would like in other areas (like financially). If you can pull off zero bugs, you probably have more supportive circumstances than most folks. And I still see no reason to apply that standard to this forum, given its purpose, constraints, etc.
No, I can assure you I do not have more supportive circumstances than most folks (certainly less than HN). Having zero known bugs is just a decision that anyone can make (but few choose to). Large companies like google and facebook (with the most resources) tend to be the worst offenders.
I also have suffered from chronic illness in the past, so I understand a little bit about what you are going through.
In other words: Companies that actually make good money don't bother to pursue that standard. That detail fits with my theory that my financial problems grow in part out of being too perfectionistic. Unfortunately, my survival depends upon my perfectionism. Thus I cannot actually afford to give it up.
