I wish you a nice and well deserved holiday, @dang! And good luck + fun, @sctb!
Tell HN: New features and a moderator
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#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
You are on some kind of genius crowd sourced testing thing, you should start a SaaS!
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#333Feels like april 1st!
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#334Disable HN Enhancement Suite
See collapse is all the way on the right and realize unread highlights are gone
Renable HN Enhancement Suite
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Even if I mention that you could make it "Submitted stories / comments" on a single line to be just like the two others?
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#336I think many HN readers should take a good look at this list of features and look at how long HN has been around. These may seem like obvious things, but HN stayed very true to MVP for a very long time.
Any insight as to why now was the right time to add in these features might help others identify timing of expanding on a core feature set.
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#337I 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…
I like the button well separated from voting buttons. It's still too close to the "unvote" text, on mobile, which needs considerable love.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#338Still no ability to comment via the API? Apps are still scraping to do this.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#339I 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…
I've been using this handy Chrome extension for years. It places the collapse button in front of the username. https://github.com/andrewheins/HN-Comment-Hider
Similarly, I've been using the userscript version of this (or at least something similar to this if it isn't the same) now available at https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/2960-hacker-news-collapsib...
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#340I 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-si…
That's precisely the hack I mentioned a few comments back on ... some subreddit somewhere.
Essentially, the left-hand indent zones are collapse regions for the post topping that level of the hierarcy. It's sheer brilliance.
Can't find the sub, though I've looked for it. I thought it was a science one. Maybe politics -- somewhere I don't often go. Hrm, no, not there either.