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[zupa]

Can someone explain what these fields are? - notifo - showdead - noprocrast - maxvisit - minaway - delay

[kaybe → zupa]

notifo is a notification service that you can link your account to.

showdead gives you the option to see posts of hellbanned users (which are usually invisible).

noprocrast and the following two are a neat feature to lock yourself out of hn after maxvisit minutes for minaway minutes (to stop procrastination, as the name says).

[jaredsohn → kaybe]

I think showdead may also allow you to see manually flagged posts.

[zupa → kaybe]

thank you so much!

lol @ noprocrast :D

[Danieru → zupa]

noprocrast works very well. As someone how has a HN 'problem' I would not be able to come here if it was not for noprocrast.

noprocrast must have been a technical feat. It will enforce the limit even if you are logged out and on an entire different network and switch browsers. I have not investigated how it works (I do not want to know how to avoid it) but it works better than cookies would.

[kijin → Danieru]

If curious programmers end up spending several hours trying to beat noprocrast, wouldn't that, like, defeat the purpose of noprocrast? ;)

[dkulchenko → Danieru]

Unfortunately all too easy to beat in Chrome: ⌘-Shift-N + news.ycombinator.com. Relying on StayFocusd instead.

[pooriaazimi → dkulchenko]

But you wouldn't be able to vote/comment, which is not fun (sometimes you might be bursting with a desire to contradict someone!).