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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#161

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 agree -- the Hacker News Collapse Chrome extension works this way, and I have become accustomed to it.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#162
post #155

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…

The argument against that is that with the collapse button so close to the vote arrow, we would be guaranteed to get misvotes, especially on mobile. The undo vote feature would no doubt help with that some, but only so much.

Easily solved with some margin and padding, heck maybe even a media query for the mobile users!

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got my downvote ability at around 550 or so...

For me it was 500.

I'm not sure the number is constant. I think it scales with either the age or the prominence of the comment. I've seen threads where I was unable to downvote top tier comments, even though I could downvote their children.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#164

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/u…

Alas, we only started tracking this data in November 2014.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#165
post #49
post #25

The persistence of collapsing is a killer feature that I wish reddit had.

Try RES :) https://redditenhancementsuite.com/ lots of other nice features aside from collapsible comments (got no affiliation to them, just a happy user).

I don't want to have to install browser extensions or configure reddit. Seriously I get enough of that by using Linux desktop.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#166
post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me it was 500.

I'm not sure the number is constant. I think it scales with either the age or the prominence of the comment. I've seen threads where I was unable to downvote top tier comments, even though I could downvote their children.

It's constant at 501.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#167
post #155

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…

The argument against that is that with the collapse button so close to the vote arrow, we would be guaranteed to get misvotes, especially on mobile. The undo vote feature would no doubt help with that some, but only so much.

To be honest I would rather have the vote arrow moved somewhere else. I'm often more interested in collapsing a comment thread than voting. I'm not sure if this is something only I care about though.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#168
post #56

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…

An hour seems a good compromise, since one reason you may want to change your vote would be if the post was edited after you voted.

An hour provides enough time for the edit to happen, and for you to see it and change your vote.

If this is not a target use case and you only want people to be able to undo misclicks, then 5-10 minutes may be adequate.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#169

I love the hiding feature, thank you. I did noticed I can't hide YC company "hiring" posts. Ex: "GitLab is hiring a security engineer (gitlab.com)"

Good catch. That's probably a side effect of job ads being treated differently in the code. We'll look into fixing it.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#170
post #13

Very cool. Great work! Small suggestion: Maybe put a link to /hidden somewhere, like the user's own profile page.

Good idea. Will add to list.

I'd appreciate a link to /hidden as well, as I just spent some time hunting around for one.
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