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When hiding the first and then the last story, this was the result: https://news.ycombinator.com/snip-story?onop=news&id=1207282... I guess that's not intended...
Was that intuition to test that? Hiding the first then the last story seems an awfully specific test.
#1 This is the only good feature listed. It helps people skim comment threads for a relevant discussion.
#2 Without this feature, people are encouraged to think before voting, and only vote when they mean it.
#3 Without this feature, people are encouraged to use HN as a transient source of news and intellectual discussion, and not twitter.
#4 Without this feature, people are encouraged to go away and do real stuff until enough time has passed that the front page is new again.
#5 Without this feature, people are encouraged to read or discuss an article based on its own merits, not just what appeals most to hivemind upvotes.
>>> 5. Find out which stories were the most popular on HN on a given day by visiting /front?day=yyyy-mm-dd. You'll see all the front page stories for that day, sorted by how much time they spent there. For example, Alan Kay's AMA had the most front page time on June 20: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-06-20
That's cool, I guess, but algolia " rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/> seems like a much better tool for the task.
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.
https://productpains.com/product/hacker-news
Hacker News stands out to me as a product that could be significantly improved through aggregated user feedback. I encourage others to contribute and Dan + Scott (Welcome!) to subscribe to feedback.
Thanks for the improvements.
The one feature I can't believe I lived without that the HN Enhancement Suite chrome extension provides, is highlighting unread comments since your last visit. It actually makes it worthwhile revisiting e.g. a 200 comment thread when there are now 300 comments without just reading all the same comments again and being unable to spot the new ones.
If it became supported cross device by HN itself I would be very grateful.