I recommend this too. I tried an alternate browser notification based solution as it was showed on HN[1] but it doesn't seem to handle HN traffic as I received notifications weeks later.
I was notified about this response, so seems okay for me. It may be a problem with email deliverability with your provider. I notice they use Sendgrid to send the mails, so if your address is on a commercial system using Mimecast or a lot of popular French email services, say, then you're probably out of luck. Sendgrid IP ranges seem to have a poor rep at various places, annoyingly. (Edit: I note you're on Protonmail, which doesn't usually have a problem, but might be worth resubbing.)
That extensions essentially hands over control of your HN account to some internet stranger. It's a little bit better described in the store now than it used to be although I'm surprised the chrome store allows this kind of thing at all.
I did something like this a couple months ago with RSS, it was one of the most stressful experiences ever. I realized that one of the things I liked is that HN was something I had to deliberately visit, not get lured into with notifications.
I actually like the fact that I don't get notified. It means I only check if I care, and the desire for validation and approval is less of a motivation to engage in discussion here. When people don't get notified they tend to only talk when they actually have something to say.
I'm still looking for something that notifies me when someone else posts or comments. Twitter followees for HN. I used to have an app that did that, 10 years ago.
Is there a tool that can watch HN for links to (or mentions of) projects one has?
For my own websites, I could run a notifier daemon checking server logs for spikes from referrer domains. But that doesn't work for code hosting sites like GitHub.
Wow, this comment made me realise that his username is "dan g" not "dang". I had a mental image of him as someone who was always polite but slightly annoyed.
One of the most wonderful aspects of HN is when another person replies to continue the thread, instead of the original commenter. Much better than a deep tree of comments dominated by the original commenter, ugggh.
That said, I do think it is important to calibrate the quality of one’s own comments by looking at how others respond.
