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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by theli0nheart »

Thanks, folks, for the great improvements!

1. The time-capsule feature is really cool. Traveling back in time to see what sort of tech people were building / what other things were on the front page when X popular product launched is going to be so much fun. Update: it only goes back about a year and a half. See below.

2. Undoing votes has also been something I've wanted for a long time. I've accidentally downvoted/upvoted more times than I'd like to count when using my phone.

3. I currently use a bookmarking service to keep track of posts I want to save on HN, but native favoriting is much better. :)

Also, welcome, Scott!

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Edit: I tried to view the front page [1] on the day I launched Breakup Notifier [2] ~5 years ago, but I get an error message. Is there any way you HN wizards can add the ability to go back further in time?

> We don't have this data before 2014-11-11.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-02-21

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2243650

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#122

Post by ihuman »

spicyj wrote: post #52
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!

That would certainly increase the number of accidental votes.

Reddit does it that way, and I haven't seen any of the developers complain about accidental votes.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#123

Post by aleem »

Someone1234 wrote: post #106

I have a piece of feedback. The new collapse button is at the end of the comment. This means that the collapse button's position on the page changes based on username length and duration wording (hours Vs. minutes, etc). One nice thing about other websites which I won't name, is that you can read and collapse all of the top comments without having to "seek" the collapse button constantly. You can literally scroll and…

Coming from HN Enhancement Suite add-on I too found this annoying.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#128

Post by netcraft »

dang wrote: post #56
lotharbot wrote: post #46

How long does the "unvote" option last? Permanently? If I accidentally bump the "unvote" button on a comment that's years old, can I re-apply my vote, or only if it's an upvote?

That is a subtle point and I was curious if someone would ask about it! Unvote links last for an hour. This is because the main use of voting data is to rank posts, and that's time sensitive. If we let people go back and unvote after hours have gone by (let alone years), that would be rewriting history, or counterfactually messing with it. Even an hour is arguably too long. Since the main purpose of this feature is t…

I think a few minutes would be fine - but it would be nice to still know how I voted after the fact.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#129

Post by jacquesm »

__mp wrote: post #107
splawn wrote: post #18

I bet whoever has the top comment on this one is going to see their karma go up and down as everyone tests out the unvote and undown feature. :)

I can't downvote. How much Karma do I need to activate it?

400 or 500 points, I forgot which. Maybe someone with something between those two can tell?
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