Upvote and collapse buttons have similar symbols. Could the upvote button also not be the collapse thread icon?
Have to collapse thread to see the comment score (as [+25]) - could [-] not also mean that a comment was downvoted? You have to know that grey means negative score.
Tell HN: New features and a moderator
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#202I 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. :)
Tested upvote, worked. Tested undo upvote, worked. Tested downvote, worked. My testing is complete.
So was the final state of your vote down or did you change it afterwards? Did you test attempting to upvote twice in a row, downvote twice in a row, etc? :)
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#203One feature request: Notification of comment replies.
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#204The Hackernews server, slowly turning into the Reddit server 0.2 (minus Reddit's famous performance problems) :)
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#205Thanks for the update this awesome!
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#206Love the changes and thanks for the un-feature. My only wish now is making the up / down arrows bigger, but the un might just make that a moot point. Is this still written in Arc?
On a related note, I wonder how well an Arc implementation on top of (the newly freed) Chez Scheme would work.
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#207Some UI issues and recommendations. 1. The up/down arrows after a vote leave behind a clickable void. That means you can still click that void after you have voted. If you changed the visibility on .votelinks instead of the buttons this would get fixed. Though even better UX would be to have togglable up/down buttons ala stackoverflow and others. 2. Why not provide the favourite link directly on the comment instead o…
The "pointer" cursor state remaining after clicking an up/down arrow looks like it was rushed or not quite finished.
I understand HN likes to keep things limited, which has been a real benefit to the overall UX on HN. But minimalism is often something that requires more time to get right, rather than just the result of having spent less time working on it. I feel like that might have been the issue here.
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#208These mostly seem like bad ideas: #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 encourag…
Tough crowd. I think all of them have their uses. The good news is you don't have to use them and how others use them is not really your problem. You're speaking about 'people' as if you speak for others, when in reality you only speak for yourself.
Just giving my feedback. Don't really care how it's used, or even if at all.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#209Yay, some extra RAM for me! I was using this extension to collapse comments, the new functionality seems to be identical with what the extension does.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think a few minutes would be fine - but it would be nice to still know how I voted after the fact.
Hmm. Good point.
How about in lieu of a stylesheet/visual change (since those seem to be few in number over the years), have upvote/downvote status result in a HTML element class attribute that browser-plugins can leverage for custom styling?