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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 harperlee »

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…

I think this is a great idea; you just put a "group" flag that we can click on new stories, and the context should be enough to know which submissions to group. Limiting them only to new also avoids the urge to just group all resubmissions, create ongoing topic threads, etc.

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

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Post by stevoski »

These other features you've added are good. But years after I started using HN, I still accidentally downvote when I want to upvote because the mobile experience is...well, you know. You all probably often use HN on a mobile device.

Please, please, please, can we have a mobile-friendly layout?

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

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Post by stevoski »

dang wrote: post #3
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Very good improvements! However, the green-URL-for-noob-domains may be problematic. The green is used to give an indication for potentially low-quality content, but public startup/project launches would all fall under the noob-domain heading.

> The green is used to give an indication for potentially low-quality content. I wouldn't say that at all! It's just interesting to know what's new. We've been displaying new sites in green to moderators for a while now. When a high-quality story comes from a brand new (to HN) site, that's interesting. The converse, too: it's interesting when you can see that an obscure site isn't new to HN (because it's not green).…

I've been assuming that green usernames indicated some kind of super user. That's because the green usernames stands out so much compared to all other usernames.

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

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Post by huskyr »

stevoski wrote: post #122

These other features you've added are good. But years after I started using HN, I still accidentally downvote when I want to upvote because the mobile experience is...well, you know. You all probably often use HN on a mobile device. Please, please, please, can we have a mobile-friendly layout?

Until there's an 'official' version, @cheeaun's HackerWeb is an excellent alternative for all platforms:

https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/

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

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Post by brador »

stevoski wrote: post #122

These other features you've added are good. But years after I started using HN, I still accidentally downvote when I want to upvote because the mobile experience is...well, you know. You all probably often use HN on a mobile device. Please, please, please, can we have a mobile-friendly layout?

Upvote on left of title, downvote on right?

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

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Post by LordIllidan »

stevoski wrote: post #122

These other features you've added are good. But years after I started using HN, I still accidentally downvote when I want to upvote because the mobile experience is...well, you know. You all probably often use HN on a mobile device. Please, please, please, can we have a mobile-friendly layout?

Seconded - this really should be a top priority. I know there are some good apps out there, and I use them, but it would be so much better to have a responsive design.

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

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Post by solistice »

krapp wrote: post #47
eevilspock wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The discussions could likely be put on one page as well, allowing you to reference to the other articles without having to add links to other similar articles or other comment threads. That'd be pretty cool.

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

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Post by tokenizerrr »

stevoski wrote: post #122

These other features you've added are good. But years after I started using HN, I still accidentally downvote when I want to upvote because the mobile experience is...well, you know. You all probably often use HN on a mobile device. Please, please, please, can we have a mobile-friendly layout?

I've also done this on desktop. The ability to change your vote, possibly only for a limited amount of time after casting it, would be far more valuable to me.

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

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Post by heinrich5991 »

Too wrote: post #116
vertis wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I quite like the way Stackexchange displays a list of similar questions when you're submitting a new question. It doesn't stop you from posting, but it does give pause if you didn't know it existed.

Yes, stackexchange really got this right. Many times i've been searching for the answer to a question on google, even with site:stackoverflow.com. I don't find anything and eventually i give up and decide to post a question myself but after writing half of the question, stackoverflow finds a previous post about this very topic which answers my question.

I also experienced this. I believe it's due to the fact that I phrase my questions differently from how I phrase my searches. :)
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