Following multiple threads

[rhialto]

I have been wondering the past days how other people on lj do it: follow multiple threads of discussion that sprout from the various entries in people's journals. If you leave your computer on all the time, you can keep the pages open, but then you get a ridiculous number of open tabs in your browser (if you even have one that supports that), and I noticed that lj starts to split big threads into multiple pages so that will fail anyway. And even if all this is not failing, you still have to reload lots of pages, and read all the way through them, to check if there are any new comments you haven't seen.
Newsreaders are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better at this kind of thing. Somebody surely must have found a solution for this?

Comments

[meihua.livejournal.com]

You can set LJ to email you notification whenever someone comments on a comment or post you've written. :) It's under Edit Personal Information - tick the box marked "Get message board replies". :)

[rhialto.livejournal.com]

See other comments about it not working right now... and I'd like to have the solution work for other threads too, ones that that I'm not contributing to (or for parts of other threads that I'm not contributing to).
I have been thinking about NNTP interfaces, but the article numbering in friends-pages would be impossible; maybe there should be just a newsgroup per journal.

I'd like to have the solution work for other threads too, ones that that I'm not contributing to

[earwigmc.livejournal.com]

yes, they're the ones that i'm sure take on further interesting directions and i just don't get back to follow them...

[paintedfairy.livejournal.com]

Have you activated the thingy that emails you when people have responded to a comment/posting you have made? That helps. Otherwise, pass.

[earwigmc.livejournal.com]

it helps when it works... it's currently not working here particularly well tho i still have it enabled...

[rhialto.livejournal.com]

I have it checked indeed, and right now it does not work since there are 4 comments here and I have received no mails, even though I have received mails before.
I also noticed there is a disabled option to mail me the comments I write myself. Perhaps that's an option for paid accounts only...

[lownote.livejournal.com]

Yeah I seem to be missing notifications at the moment as well - very irritating!

[janesmouse.livejournal.com]

Ditto here, thought it was just my ISP mucking about again.

[lownote.livejournal.com]

Not unless mine has joined in :D

[janesmouse.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough I checked my email after writing this to find a notification had arrived, someone had posted a reply to something in my journal! And it only took 4 hours to arrive!!!! Yours though was pretty instant, one wonders sometimes :-(

[earwigmc.livejournal.com]

yeah, i think that bit is for paid accounts, i can't check that box with a free account...

[earwigmc.livejournal.com]

no solution here.. i try the best i can to keep up, but i'm sure i miss much stuff...

[jolarti.livejournal.com]

Odd.
i've never had a problem with the notification.
i'm even under the impression this service waits a while to notify me to give me a chance to make up my mind - because sometimes I delete a comment and change it because of typos.