After you edit a comment, it's very difficult to figure out how to get back to the discussion. This is a problem with posting a comment or performing other actions too, but it's particularly annoying when you edit a comment.
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#52Would an implicit +2 for every unique user that posts a comment in the thread be a good idea? Or maybe number of characters in comments / 10, where only those comments posted by people with Karma of >10 are counted? Or maybe there should be a longetivity modifier, where a topic that was heavily voted up and discussed at length should stay for, say, twice as long as a topic that was just voted heavily up?
Or there could be a 'Top Discussions' side by side with 'Top' so there's a different filter for people looking for news (which you want to be recent and not obscured by long running threads) and people looking for discussions (which I'd argue will be more valuable if the popular ones are kept around for a while).
Open for abuse, most definitely, but if the purpose of this site is to build community, I think those topics that get discussed should be more easily accessed. Ideally people would appreciate some valuable discussion and upvote the thread, but this thread here is a perfect example of one that should probably stick around for a while, but has nearly 3x as many comments as upvotes.
Just throwing ideas out - tell me if I'm crazy.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#53When submitting a link, sometimes I want to add a text in addition to the title. Usually I just add a comment in the discuss/comments section, but it'd be nice to have a field for that specifically.
This works especially well if you're submitting a link and want to add a remark about why it might be relevant for others to check out.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#54Hi,
Like many others here, I read a lot. Consequently, I find that I have already seen many of the links on this site.
With this in mind, you should consider providing a link next to each article that a user could click if he/she has already read this article elsewhere.
This info could then be used to give an idea of how old the article is, and would also perhaps help prevent overlap with reddit/digg, thereby improving the value of your site.
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#55What happens to old posts? I would like a way to browse the archive.
Also, threads you comment on should show up in your profile so you can keep track of ongoing conversations.
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#56I would like to have the option of changing my vote on articles and comments. There are times (on reddit) when I vote an article up and then read the comments and find that the blogger was actually full of crap.
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#57i like the 'friends' option. i unfortunately didn't use it enough at Reddit when it was new and now i can't filter for the users that consistently matched my tastes (or challenged them) - the noob tide has risen... i like reddit but a filter that lets everything in isn't filtering anymore. i guess i'm looking for a way that allows me to create my own 'recomendations' type algorithm. i think if it's on and clear at the beginning, it might allow the system to scale if/when it hits a major growth curve and allow that community vibe to remain.
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#58Better display of source code in comments
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#59Make urls in comments clickable, ie. automatically wrap markup around them, or let us type the markup ourselves.
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#60I'd just like visited links to be more different from unvisited links. Right now I have to look closely to distinguish between the two.