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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

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Post by 001sky »

dang wrote: post #11
greenyoda wrote: post #4

The "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 (…

I think a small bibliography type feature would be interesting. so, a story on topic X hits the front page. instead of killing the next 5 stories on topic X, find a way to cite 2-5 as bibliography on topic X.

Point is, the first story on topic X has a random element. killing all other stories leads to monoculture.

legitimate issue is having 5 / 30 front page stories be topic X drowns out other discussion. solution is to have the bibliography become deeper...rather than spam the front page with the bilbiolgraphy-type stories.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by colinbartlett »

captainbenises wrote: post #39

When are you going to fix the mobile css? Surely that'd take about 4 minutes.

I'm quite certain the world's optometrists are paying HN to keep that font tiny so my eyes are strained every time I use the site on mobile.

But seriously, I've heard in the past that they wish not to break the many apps that scrape HN, and therefore have hesitated to change the markup.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by jodah »

colinbartlett wrote: post #42
captainbenises wrote: post #39

When are you going to fix the mobile css? Surely that'd take about 4 minutes.

I'm quite certain the world's optometrists are paying HN to keep that font tiny so my eyes are strained every time I use the site on mobile. But seriously, I've heard in the past that they wish not to break the many apps that scrape HN, and therefore have hesitated to change the markup.

Not sure why the current markup couldn't support some responsive styling.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by krapp »

colinbartlett wrote: post #42
captainbenises wrote: post #39

When are you going to fix the mobile css? Surely that'd take about 4 minutes.

I'm quite certain the world's optometrists are paying HN to keep that font tiny so my eyes are strained every time I use the site on mobile. But seriously, I've heard in the past that they wish not to break the many apps that scrape HN, and therefore have hesitated to change the markup.

That shouldn't be HN's problem, though. Apps that scrape the HTML of a site take it entirely upon themselves to keep up with changes in the markup.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by eevilspock »

colinbartlett wrote: post #42
captainbenises wrote: post #39

When are you going to fix the mobile css? Surely that'd take about 4 minutes.

I'm quite certain the world's optometrists are paying HN to keep that font tiny so my eyes are strained every time I use the site on mobile. But seriously, I've heard in the past that they wish not to break the many apps that scrape HN, and therefore have hesitated to change the markup.

all it takes is a separate mobile URL, or dynamic response to mobile user-agents.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by krapp »

eevilspock wrote: post #38
dang wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 or perhaps: 6. SOPA making a come…

If and or when they add thread folding, folding for the story links themselves might be a logical extension of that. You could have the top ranked story and under the fold the last, say, five related.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

#48

Post by koala_advert »

grecy wrote: post #30

Any chance we can have collapsible comments without a greasemonkey script, or bookmarklet?

This seems to be the most obvious thing they're missing. I can't stand trying to read through HN comments without a greasemonkey script.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by JeffreyKaine »

What does everyone think about links opening in a new tab rather than the parent tab? I'll often find myself getting off on a wikipedia tangent (or some similar learning loop) and HN will be several back buttons back. I now open every link in a new tab manually to solve for this problem.
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