How to best keep an eye on your favorite site?
May 27, 2015 14:56:01 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 14:56:01 GMT -6
It doesn't matter if HH is your favorite site or not (but..it is..right? 
) Whatever your favorite is? It is likely you are one who likes to keep up on the latest posts and information, right? How best to do that.... Hmmm..... Well? There are a couple ways.
#1. You can reload the page with the refresh button, all day and night, to keep a running view of what is new and different. (Hey..I respect that dedication!)
#2. You can use the RSS feeds with a proper RSS reader and have IT check and update many times throughout the day, and that will also keep you current on your favorite site.
or..
#3. You can use an auto-refresh browser extension to keep it updated for you and without any effort from you to maintain it. (Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner here!)
You may be saying to yourself....'Self? I've used those before, and they didn't work because . . . ', and many can give a variety of issues at the end of that statement. I come with a new discovery I recently made, and an extension that avoids many of the problems which others suffer from.
(Google Store)
) Whatever your favorite is? It is likely you are one who likes to keep up on the latest posts and information, right? How best to do that.... Hmmm..... Well? There are a couple ways. #1. You can reload the page with the refresh button, all day and night, to keep a running view of what is new and different. (Hey..I respect that dedication!)
#2. You can use the RSS feeds with a proper RSS reader and have IT check and update many times throughout the day, and that will also keep you current on your favorite site.
or..
#3. You can use an auto-refresh browser extension to keep it updated for you and without any effort from you to maintain it. (Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner here!)
You may be saying to yourself....'Self? I've used those before, and they didn't work because . . . ', and many can give a variety of issues at the end of that statement. I come with a new discovery I recently made, and an extension that avoids many of the problems which others suffer from.
(Google Store)
As with most extensions for a browser, this is 100% free of charge, and very simple to use. Again though, there are many many refresh tools...so why this one?
Well, many of these refresh by Domain or some other odd scheme. So if you set it for the HH home page, other extensions may gleefully refresh EVERY HH page on the same interval. It makes it useful when you aren't using the browser...but worthless otherwise. MANY others will also refresh on their set interval whether you are ON that page and DOING something that moment or not. I can't say how upset I've been a couple times to see a thread I was writing vanish in a forced page reload I forgot I had set.
This extension has two big factors that cause me to recommend it!
#1. This is set to a PAGE...not a whole domain. For example. Mine is set up to refresh the HH home page on a 60 second interval ....ONLY....when I have a tab open and sitting on the HH homepage. If I am on an HH thread page? It doesn't do anything, because that isn't THE page I told it I cared to see refreshed...and it cares to remember that.
#2. It does NOT continue in it's mindless routine of refreshing, regardless of user actions. If I am using HH, it goes to sleep until I return the tab to the page it is set to watch, and then it automatically re-engages to start refreshing again.
I have had this extension set up, running non-stop and without anything to remind me it existed in any annoying way for a couple weeks now. Long enough to have had several conflicts and moments of tried patience with other extensions designed to do this...but for this one? I need to remind myself this is even ON ..for how quiet and unobtrusive it is. The tab holding the HH front page always has a current number of notifications or PM's showing on the top when I glance at it tho.
This just reloads one defined page, at the time set, when that page is loaded and left. Nothing more. Nothing less. It just works...'just right'.
Well, many of these refresh by Domain or some other odd scheme. So if you set it for the HH home page, other extensions may gleefully refresh EVERY HH page on the same interval. It makes it useful when you aren't using the browser...but worthless otherwise. MANY others will also refresh on their set interval whether you are ON that page and DOING something that moment or not. I can't say how upset I've been a couple times to see a thread I was writing vanish in a forced page reload I forgot I had set.
This extension has two big factors that cause me to recommend it!
#1. This is set to a PAGE...not a whole domain. For example. Mine is set up to refresh the HH home page on a 60 second interval ....ONLY....when I have a tab open and sitting on the HH homepage. If I am on an HH thread page? It doesn't do anything, because that isn't THE page I told it I cared to see refreshed...and it cares to remember that.
#2. It does NOT continue in it's mindless routine of refreshing, regardless of user actions. If I am using HH, it goes to sleep until I return the tab to the page it is set to watch, and then it automatically re-engages to start refreshing again.
I have had this extension set up, running non-stop and without anything to remind me it existed in any annoying way for a couple weeks now. Long enough to have had several conflicts and moments of tried patience with other extensions designed to do this...but for this one? I need to remind myself this is even ON ..for how quiet and unobtrusive it is. The tab holding the HH front page always has a current number of notifications or PM's showing on the top when I glance at it tho.
This just reloads one defined page, at the time set, when that page is loaded and left. Nothing more. Nothing less. It just works...'just right'.
