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Tell HN: New features and a moderator
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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#282Earlier 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
I just upvoted you there because I'm nice like that.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tested upvote, worked. Tested undo upvote, worked. Tested downvote, worked. My testing is complete.
I went for iterations - up, down, up, down, up, down. So it seems to track. I left an upvote to make sure it stuck when I come back in a few hours to revisit.
Now put that in a loop to see if they have any memory leaks :)
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I could've saved a day of work if I had known that before, lol.
Although my thing nowadays uses an XPosed module to integrate with Relay and uses a server, cause I wanted that to work.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#285I 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…
For me, at least, the most frequent use case for collapsing a thread is in the middle of it, when the discussion has veered off into territory in which I have no interest. In this case, I need to either scroll back up and find the originating post of the thread in order to collapse it, or scroll down until I find the beginning of the next thread.
What I'd like to see is a control that takes advantage of this right-side position of the collapse button to add something like the following, perhaps only visible on rollover:
[-] all
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#286I was clicking hide, hide, hide for the stories near the bottom of the front-page until I got this back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/snip-story?onop=news&id=1206078...
[" \n 1. A WYSIWYG math editor (coding.net)\n 63 points by tvvocold 1 day ago | flag | hide | 21 comments \n ",null]
Edit: there it is again: https://news.ycombinator.com/snip-story?onop=news&id=1207486...
Steps to reproduce: https://news.ycombinator.com/hide?id=12074096&goto=news https://news.ycombinator.com/hide?id=12073011&goto=news https://news.ycombinator.com/hide?id=12074388&goto=news https://news.ycombinator.com/hide?id=12074388&goto=news (last news item on front-page)
https://news.ycombinator.com/snip-story?onop=news&id=1207438...
[" \n 1. Brexit Is a Lehman Moment for European Banks (bloomberg.com)\n 200 points by vool 1 day ago | flag | hide | 146 comments \n ",null]Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#287One feature request: Notification of comment replies.
This has really been my main complaint of HN. Nearly impossible to have a conversation if I don't notice a reply until I randomly decide to click the number beside my username.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm at 495 and can't downvote. Quick, 5 people upvote me and I'll tell you if it kicks in.
OK, at exactly 501 you get a little down arrow (doesn't appear at 500). dang already confirmed it below, but at least I got to feel like a camgirl for 5 minutes. Thanks for playing!
Would you like to know whether you lose your downvoting ability if your karma drops below 500 again? Just ask, and I'm sure the HN crowd is willing to help you find out :-)
Also, would that freeze the downvotes you gave earlier, or would you still be able to undo them?
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#289Collapsible comments... thank you so much.