Tell HN: New features and a moderator • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#71

Post by dmvaldman » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 7:48 PM UTC

Feature request: Cache favorites so they never 404

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#72

Post by ChuckMcM » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 7:48 PM UTC

Dang those are some nice features! :-) I really really love the collapse feature. Does the collapse persist across new comments being added or are those not collapsed? We'll have to see.

And final thought on the stories/submissions vs comments the challenge is that comment is both a verb and a noun, you comment, and you can read a comment. Whereas stories is always a noun. Submission is the correct name for something submitted.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#73

Post by profmonocle » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 7:48 PM UTC

Unvoting is a very welcome change. I've misclicked and accidentally downvoted people a few times.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#74

Post by WayneBro » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 7:49 PM UTC

trjordan wrote: post #39

Suggestion: Can you move the collapse button to the left of the username? One way I tend to use nested comment threads is reading all top comments, collapsing as I go. Great stuff, overall -- thanks!

I would say: left of the vote button too.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#75

Post by gardano » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 7:49 PM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #29

Still, the most urgently needed feature is missing: telling me which comments I haven't seen, yet. It's a constant nuisance in longer threads. Really, this is much more vital than just about every feature you've introduced over the last months.

You read my mind. I'd love to see this feature, too.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#76

Post by gus_massa » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 7:49 PM UTC

Yhippa wrote: post #42

Re: 5 > We don't have this data before 2014-11-11. Aww bummer. Would have been cool to see what was the new shiny over time. Still a cool feature!

Isn't it possible to simulate it? Just make a few wrong assumptions, like that the sorting algorithm hadn't changed and that the hand assigned penalties were applied all the time, and ...

(Alternative: sort by points instead of by time.)

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#77

Post by pen2l » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 7:49 PM UTC

cryptoz wrote: post #38

dsr_ wrote: post #4

Collapsing threads! Thanks!

The problem is that the collapse is on the right. It used to be this way on Reddit too, but after users complained they moved it to the left. Right now it's hard to collapse a series of top level comments in a row since you have to keep moving the mouse around a lot. Feature request to move the collapse to the left side, like on reddit?

For me it's on both sides: https://i.imgur.com/vTPD63G.png

One of those is because of a chrome extension. I guess just get the extension. :)

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#78

Post by manish_gill » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 7:50 PM UTC

Thank you for the great features! More than the collapsible comments, I'll look forward to people's favourite list :D

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#79

Post by dang » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 7:51 PM UTC

cm3 wrote: post #12

Is there a place to ask for features?

Emailing hn@ycombinator.com is the way to ask us anything.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#80

Post by vinchuco » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 7:51 PM UTC

Pxtl wrote: post #27

The comment-collapsing feature is nice, but the big [-] on every comment is somewhat ugly, visually speaking.

I think it's the brackets. A simple - changing to + would suffice IMHO. Also, it would help my OCD (exaggerating) to auto-collapse if I have visited the page before, instead of collapsing all of the comments.