Why am I this happy about a very tiny change to HN.
Tell HN: New features and a moderator
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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
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Posts is an interesting alternative. It has the same verb/noun flexibility as comments. But really it is minor, I wondered what 'stories' was but quickly realized it was things that I had submitted. So I think you should keep what ever you feel is best. Given that you know "when" a thread was collapsed and you know when a given comment was added, there is data available to compute "new since you collapsed it" but I r…
I agree with Chuck, by the way. "stories" is much less clear than "submitted". Perhaps in the theme of verbose clarity, "submitted stories" would be a good label?
Never!
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Another user has argued for this effectively and persuaded us to do some version of it.
The simple hack I use in my own extension to provide that feature on reddit without Gold just simply logs the timestamp of every visit of the thread in a cookie, and then allows to select "new comments since visit X", and then just computes the comment time back into a timestamp, compares, highlights. If HN would provide the actual timestamp in ISO format, as reddit does it, we could've had that a lot simpler a lot e…
For other people's interest - there is a "Reddit New Comments Highlighter" chrome extension that does that for non-gold users.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#274I 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 actually did that before reading this comment. :)
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#275Great features, thanks! 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 itsel…
Yes. Another user has argued for this effectively and persuaded us to do some version of it.
Thank you so much for these new features! They make using HN a much better experience.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#276Looks like this means HN's JavaScript is no longer just a single short script tag's worth. Definitely welcome changes, and thanks to those involved.
I've been using HN with JavaScript disabled and it has worked fine until today. Only thing that didn't work for me was search.
But these new features require JS and that's fine with me. Not all JS is evil.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#277I 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 think we really just need to test that down-voting works. But I almost never use down-votes so I'll leave that up to the "crowd".
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
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Tested upvote, worked. Tested undo upvote, worked. Tested downvote, worked. My testing is complete.
new user so pardon my ignorance but I dont have a downvote button. Do I need to enable it somewhere?
No, you generally don't get to downvote in HN until your karma is above some threshold that changes occasionally.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#279I am happy to add "undown/unvote" to my list of internet words that should have existed before but did not.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
new user so pardon my ignorance but I dont have a downvote button. Do I need to enable it somewhere?
You need a certain amount of karma to downvote. I think it's 500, but I'm not sure because I don't have that much yet. :) Edit: it's confirmed at 501: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074198
Just 5400 more days and I'll be able to downvote! What a time to be alive!