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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by JoshTriplett »

crb wrote: post #327
dang wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The HN app I use lets you click anywhere in the heading line to collapse/expand. Could you do the same here?

> The HN app I use lets you click anywhere in the heading line to collapse/expand. Could you do the same here?

Both the username and the date are clickable links in the HN interface (to the user profile and the comment itself, respectively).

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by pfarnsworth »

danso wrote: post #195
MrMrtn wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It'd be hard to say what most users prefer. I would venture to guess that we're all conditioned to vote before collapsing comments simply because we've never had the option to collapse comments until today. So behavior preferences will change over time. However, I'll hypothesize that it's preferable (overall) to have more friction on collapsing comments. A lot of great discussion happens in response to even a mediocr…

>A lot of great discussion happens in response to even a mediocre top-level comment, and forcing the user to take a few extra moments to skim the child-comments will increase the serendipitous discovery of these nested gems.

Is this actually data-driven or just a guess on your part? My experience is that a mediocre comment rarely ever gets good replies.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by archon810 »

dredmorbius wrote: post #337
Someone1234 wrote: post #106

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…

I like the button well separated from voting buttons. It's still too close to the "unvote" text, on mobile, which needs considerable love.

I was going to say the same thing. On mobile, hitting collapsing or unvoting is 50/50 right now.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by tempestn »

tedmiston wrote: post #307
justinpombrio wrote: post #256

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I suspect you mean 501. I reached 500 a few weeks ago, and left it there for a while... it was such a nice, round number.

^ This is correct. I was equally confused when mine hit 500 and downvote wasn't there.

Presumably somewhere in the HN code you would find `karma > KARMA_THRESHOLD_DOWNVOTE`.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by panic »

Awesome! One small bit of feedback: clicking [-] to collapse a thread moves the nearby text ("user 3 hours ago [+ 5]") a small amount vertically. It would be cleaner visually if it stayed in place, and it's easier to un-do an accidental collapse if you don't have to move your mouse.
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