Follow specific thread

[RayBB]

Is it possible to have a setup where I can follow for comments on a specific thread?

Kind of like how you can turn on inbox replies for your own posts?

The use case is if I see a thread that I like and wanna be updated on if someone comments.

Thanks

[flytaly]

No, you can't follow for comments currently. But there is API for comments, so maybe I will add this option later.

As a workaround, you can use rss endpoint with any RSS reader. There should be browser extensions for RSS too.

A thread link, for example, https://www.reddit.com/r/Frontend/comments/hdpu09/making_sense_of_redux/.

Add .rss?sort=new at the end or .rss?sort=new&depth=1 if you need only top level comments.
So the link now looks like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Frontend/comments/hdpu09/making_sense_of_redux/.rss?sort=new
and you can put it into RSS-reader.

[dandepeched]

@flytaly +1 for this feature. Reddit RSS feed is unreliable, some new comments are missing, ?sort=new makes results even worse :(

[flytaly]

Reddit now has the built-in feature to follow a post. It's only available in the new design.

Though it looks like it works only with level 1 comments, and you need to manually subscribe to every comments down the comment tree with Follow button.

Even if I implement it in the extension, it would work the same way as RSS/Reddit built-in feature works. Reddit has an old API, and it's impossible to efficiently fetch new nested replies. You can only fetch a limited number of replies to a post or comment.

In other words, I can add follow thread functionally, but it will work only with level 1 comments.

[dandepeched]

@flytaly , Reddit solution have significant delay. Will it be possible to create same notification type but with adjustable delay?