Nice to see some new features! I hope it's not rude to ask if there's a special reason the URLs in Ask HN submission text aren't hyperlinks?
Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
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Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#32I'm not sure how the UI for this would work, and perhaps it's best left as an idea for a browser extension, but I like the idea of showing a selection of the five or so most recently submitted stories on the homepage, separate from the main articles. It wouldn't be enabled by default, only when an option is selected in the user profile.
I never visit the new section of HN. I really wish I did but I always forget about it. However, if there was a little section for new articles on the homepage (perhaps at the bottom or the side of the page in a box) I'd definitely check some out and upvote the interesting articles.
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#33Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#34The "past" link is a nice feature, but what I'd really like to see is a way of weeding out duplicate stories before they're posted. For example, today there were 9 similar stories posted (so far) about Facebook's new "dislike" button[1], causing none of them to receive a significant numbers of upvotes. Could we have a feature in the "submit" dialog that displays similar stories in the last 24 hours and then asks the…
What is the difference between new-hn.algolia.com/?experimental, and just regular hn.algolia.com ?
"Experimental" changes the layout a bit. You can try it by going into the settings (icon at upper right) and changing "Style" to "Experimental".
I think that at this point, "hn" gives you the same thing as "new-hn". I just have an outdated link in my bookmark.
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#35This change just broke the Chrome extension Georgify for HN.
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#36I'd like to see stats of first time URLs pre and post greenification.
I suspect we may see more green links on front page than prior... just a hunch.
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#37The "past" link is a nice feature, but what I'd really like to see is a way of weeding out duplicate stories before they're posted. For example, today there were 9 similar stories posted (so far) about Facebook's new "dislike" button[1], causing none of them to receive a significant numbers of upvotes. Could we have a feature in the "submit" dialog that displays similar stories in the last 24 hours and then asks the…
When a story gets posted in many versions, most are knockoffs. If a knockoff has made it to HN first, I wouldn't want someone to hesitate to post a more solid article. I'm also not sure how to define "similar stories". Your link picks out the word "dislike" to search for, but that essentially encodes the answer to the hard part in the question. I do agree that it would be good to weed out variants of the same story (…
What about this for a sketch of an idea:
Give us the ability to cite 'other sources' for the same story (ideally it should be smart enough to dereference other HN submissions if that's passed in). Then mods can, if they so desire, merge comments from separate discussions into one pool.
Finally, for the alternate links, you could consider allowing users to vote the best source. I say 'consider' because I'm a bit iffy as to how it might work out. I don't remember any significant controversy over which story was best and mod rule might be for the best. There are also issues with how you score a poll when some options may not have existed during any given vote and HN tends to use approval voting in polls.
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#38The "past" link is a nice feature, but what I'd really like to see is a way of weeding out duplicate stories before they're posted. For example, today there were 9 similar stories posted (so far) about Facebook's new "dislike" button[1], causing none of them to receive a significant numbers of upvotes. Could we have a feature in the "submit" dialog that displays similar stories in the last 24 hours and then asks the…
When a story gets posted in many versions, most are knockoffs. If a knockoff has made it to HN first, I wouldn't want someone to hesitate to post a more solid article. I'm also not sure how to define "similar stories". Your link picks out the word "dislike" to search for, but that essentially encodes the answer to the hard part in the question. I do agree that it would be good to weed out variants of the same story (…
How about grouping stories covering the same current event/topic and ranking them by an aggregate score? This would keep the front page clean while also giving the event/topic a more appropriate rank (i.e. one higher listing rather than 2 or 3 separate lower ones).
6. SOPA making a comeback
217 points | guardian.com 46 comments | eff.org 27 comments | motherboard.vice.com 13 comments
6. SOPA making a comeback
217 points 76 comments
SOPA Lives on for the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (www.eff.org)
113 points by DiabloD3 2 hours ago | flag | 41 comments
Google, Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo Claim MPAA Is Trying to Resurrect SOPA (www.theguardian.com)
89 points by runesoerensen 3 hours ago | flag | 23 comments
An Undead SOPA Is Hiding Inside an Extremely Boring Case About Invisible Braces (motherboard.vice.com)
12 points by lizzard 15 minutes ago | flag | 12 comments
Within the group you could list the links in order of their individual scores. The title of the group could come from the highest ranked or could be manually chosen by editors. You could have separate comments pages, but also a group comment page which is just the union of all the comments.
Later you could take this a step further and include historical posts in the list, thus avoiding redundant comment streams (but only use new votes and new comments for ranking the group -- it has to freshly earn any reappearance on the front page).
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#39When are you going to fix the mobile css? Surely that'd take about 4 minutes.
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#40Minor feedback, if you look at "past" for a domain that's a YC company that often posts jobs to HN, the results are littered with those postings rather than other content from the site which may be more relevant.