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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?

#21
I would very much love a "feature" to disappear: the silent rewriting of titles in submissions.

Just right now: "The Forgotten Lens" became "The Lens".

Some time ago, someone posted "How I Choose What to Read" (an essay on how he selects books) which became "I Choose What to Read" (must be an angry rant about main stream media shoving fake news into his face).

Unfortunately, the mods have already clarified that this "feature" is here to stay.

Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?

#22

Probably just web push notifications for when users directly reply to your comment.

This is doable with hnrss if RSS is good enough:

https://hnrss.org/replies?id=devwastaken (replies to any of your comments)

https://hnrss.org/replies?id=19599229 (replies to a particular comment ID)

Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?

#25
An option to highlight comments that were added since I last read the thread. Often when I find one interesting, I start reading comments (and possibly replying) early and check back several times. It's annoying to have to go over everything again that was already there last time. Right now I have to search repeatedly for '2 hours ago', '1 hour ago' and 'minutes ago', or wait until the thread has cooled down to read all at once.
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