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Minor 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.
Edit: this should be fixed now. Is it?
I'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.
Low-quality posts tend to get flagged, though, so it's also possible this won't be a problem.
Any chance we can have collapsible comments without a greasemonkey script, or bookmarklet?
you should be able to scroll a page and pick out the top 5 original comments...even without collapsing...
Clicking the domain to see other submissions from that site is the best feature HN has added in years.
between /new and /firstpage
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edit: hope sw prevents prs/upvote rings from abusing)
When are you going to fix the mobile css? Surely that'd take about 4 minutes.
This is what happens when we try 4-minute fixes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205733 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9206427.
We've been working on a more thorough solution since then. I've posted about it many times, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104936, and no one will be more relieved when those days are over. I just hope everyone doesn't still disagree and propose more 4-minute fixes forever.
Any chance we can have collapsible comments without a greasemonkey script, or bookmarklet?
Even if the don't collapse, It might be nice to see first level comments have some kind of distinguishing visual context...to get to another thought... eg, comment number 2,3 etc...is ofetn buried under 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.4 sub comment discusion minutia....when a top comment has 30 or 40 sub comments. you should be able to scroll a page and pick out the top 5 original comments...even without collapsing...
I'd like to suggest a very basic fix that will help new users. People need to know about rules before they can reliably follow them. And Hacker News makes that surprisingly hard for new people. Above the submit button, there is a line that says: "If you haven't already, would you mind reading about HN's approach to comments ?" I wanted to make sure I followed the rules, so I clicked the hyperlink and began reading a…
Maybe add a link to 'cached' in addition to 'web'? You could either do your own caching when the link is submitted, or use a service. The link will be useful immediately if the site goes down over load, and keeping an archive will keep the comments comprehensible for future readers if/when the link erodes.
HN comments contain a lot of a value in aggregate, and it would be a shame to lose necessary context to exploit this value due to simple link-rot.
However, I can see issues arising with paywalled links. The HN cache would likely display a rather useless paywall for many of the most popular stories. Navigating around the paywall by technical means may present an IP issue.