@Dang, I once posted a link and then someone reposted the same link but added /# to it. HN treated that as a new URL and that link, because karma -I think- got to the FP. Any solution to that?
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
#142These 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?
Someone should make a round up of HN apps. My personal favorite: Boreal
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#143I'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.
We'll watch for that. If people start to abuse it we'll deal with it somehow. Low-quality posts tend to get flagged, though, so it's also possible this won't be a problem.
Cool...
To be clear I didn't mean to imply that would happen. I was more interested in the psychology of it. And I thought the data would be fun to look at.
But thanks!
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#144When 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.
Can I ask why, when using FF on Android showing the mobile version of HN, replies appear using different font sizes? Some are tiny, some are actually readable.
I have to zoom/unzoom constantly to read just a thread, or switch to the desktop version, which doesn't have this issue.
It's so dumb, I feel dumber just asking.
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#145I'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…
Ok, we changed the text of both https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and the "would you mind" blurb to make it clear that the HN guidelines are an additional thing to read.
Nice job! :) Thanks for responding to my feedback.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Agree 100%! If you click "downvote", the arrow should just turn to orange instead of disappearing. If you click "up" ditto. You can then change your vote for a limited time. As a bonus: please don't refresh the page just because I upvoted someone. Why should I search where it is I left off reading just because I upvoted someone? EDIT: nevermind about second point, it looks like it happens only if JS is disabled. My b…
HN is gracefully degrading you ;)
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#147@Dang, I once posted a link and then someone reposted the same link but added /# to it. HN treated that as a new URL and that link, because karma -I think- got to the FP. Any solution to that?
That's the flip side of what I said above: "allowing reposts is a way of giving high-quality stories multiple chances at making the front page". It's pretty random which particular submission ends up making it.
We've thought about some form of karma distribution across every user who submitted the link, but that gets complex quickly and I'm not sure it's a good idea. In the meantime, the best approach is to realize that any individual submission is subject to randomness (i.e. /newest is a lottery), and the reliable way to gain karma over time is simply to enter more often, i.e. post more high-quality stories. That's best for the community too!
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#148These 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?
Yes. We've been working on it for a while and are hopeful we can start alpha-testing it soon. There has been much discussion of this, including elsewhere in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224045, and follow the links from there).
The last few times this has come up I have begun to feel a gnawing fear that everyone has an incompatible idea of what "mobile-friendly" and "responsive" means, and the disagreement about how it should work will never cease. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
#149I have the feeling that creating a new domain is going to be a way of growth hacking one's story toward the HN front page. Green is a big bump in a world of greys.
Fluff tends to get flagged off the front page pretty quickly, so it may not turn out to be a problem. But if that does start to happen, please let us know. We can turn it off, or maybe turn it off on the front page.
I'm surprised that the green sites turned out to be controversial because I have found them helpful as a moderator and a reader, but in retrospect I can see why a visually noticeable change would be. We're not attached to this feature.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that the classic noob green is a little loud, but wow, your eyes are way sharper than mine, or we're using different devices, or both. Maybe we can tone it down a bit though.
I was going to ask to make it more prominent! Maybe an option like the top bar colour?
Avoiding option proliferation seems important. It might be better to just toss the feature.
Edit: we tossed the feature. I'll edit the OP.