On: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

[alxmng]

Why use website-specific favorites instead of browser favorites? Isn’t it inconvenient to have bookmarks siloed across different websites? My browser bookmarks work on any website, are synced across devices and backed up automatically (Safari), and are easily searchable and organized via folders or tags.

[kohtatsu → alxmng]

I use it as a super-upvote.

I try to only favourite the cream of the crop, in the hopes someone will stumble into my favourites list and enjoy them.

I mostly favourite comments not submissions though.

[yorwba → kohtatsu]

> in the hopes someone will stumble into my favourites list and enjoy them.

I did. Thank you!

[pc86 → alxmng]

The only benefit is that the HN favorites are public (to HN) so you can get aggregate data like this.

For the individual user there is zero reason.