Probably just web push notifications for when users directly reply to your comment.
This exists, though it's a free third-party service.
Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
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Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#12A kill file. Automatic highlighting of not-yet-seen comments.
There is a "hide" button. Not sure if that's what you mean by "kill file."
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#13Ability to make links open in a new tab by default.
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#14A kill file. Automatic highlighting of not-yet-seen comments.
There is a "hide" button. Not sure if that's what you mean by "kill file."
A "kill file" was a feature popularized by Usenet news readers. It lets you save a list of terms that you're not interested in seeing. For example, you may never want to see articles or comments from a particular user or which contain a particular phrase.
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#15Larger vote and collapse buttons for mobile so you're not constantly tapping the wrong thing by accident.
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#16Decent styles and markup. I like the simple design, but:
- the font is too small. It's impossible to read on a mobile or tablet. Body font is set to 10pt; comments to 9pt. Just use the browser default size (1em ~= 16px)
- the markup is really bloated for what it does. The nested tables are unnecessary.
Bookmarklet to fix the font size on mobile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19468463
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#17Hashtags / labels som that the content becomes curated. Only sorting by upvotes / comments is too 1 dimensional for me, and it does not favours to the future readers of the site, nor to the goldmine content posted here.
Not a perfect solution, but the algolia search index is pretty good at finding topical articles that are most popular. If you don't use it already, it's the search bar at the very bottom of the front page.
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#18I'd like to see downvotes only used when a comment doesn't add to the conversation, not when the comment gives a wrong answer. Some comments highlight a popular misconception which is useful to the conversation.
I think this is more a UX problem, where sites like Stack Overflow use downvotes to indicate that they disagree with the answer.
Maybe instead of a downvote button it should be a flag or -_- emoji. (edit: apparently HN removes emojis)
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#19Ability for me to mark a user as "someone I'd like to meet". If they also mark me within 12 months, then we both get an automated email. If they don't, nothing happens.
It would probably need some anti-abuse mechanism, to prevent someone from just marking every single user.
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#20Decent styles and markup. I like the simple design, but: - the font is too small. It's impossible to read on a mobile or tablet. Body font is set to 10pt; comments to 9pt. Just use the browser default size (1em ~= 16px) - the markup is really bloated for what it does. The nested tables are unnecessary. Bookmarklet to fix the font size on mobile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19468463
Agree about the markup, but the current font is perfect on small phones. Anything larger would have a line length with too few characters to be legible; and reader mode doesn’t work.