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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#393

Post by brudgers »

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…

A piece of kludgecode for Greasemonkey[Firefox] or TamperMonkey[Chrome/Chromium]. The script will all move the collapse links to the left margin on this page:

  // ==UserScript==
  // @name        move_collapse_link
  // @namespace   com.kludgecode.hn.demo
  // @include     https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675
  // @version     1
  // @grant       none
  // @run-at      document-end
  // ==/UserScript==

  window.$destination =  document.getElementsByClassName('comtr');
  window.$source = document.getElementsByClassName('togg');

  for (var i = 0; i
Modifying the @include line by replacing the query portion of the URI with an asterisk, will cause the code to run on all HN "story" pages. Matters of preference ought to be within the users control. I like Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey because suddenly a lot of things are.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#394

Post by slowmovintarget »

shin_lao wrote: post #230
splawn wrote: post #18

I 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 wanted to upvote that comment and so I did! Then later I changed my mind because really, it deserved a downvote. Anger passed and facing the consequences of my actions I was nothing but a broken man. I brought back equilibrium and removed that downvote. This is when I realized that the timing was perfect for a self-centered comment.

This comment made me want to test the reply. When there is a mighty wind, two cheeks are funnier than one.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#395

Post by peterkelly »

The collapsing comments thing is great, but what I'd really love to see is the ability to display only the top-level comments, so then I can drill down to sub-comments I'm interested in reading. Often I find that there'll be one sub-comment thread I'm not particularly interested in (e.g. discussion trails off into a completely different topic) and end up scrolling a lot to try and find the next top-level comment.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#397

Post by Cieplak »

PhantomGremlin wrote: post #276
zbuttram wrote: post #82

Looks 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.

Same story here. Actually, I think all of these new features would work without JS, using just CSS, except retaining collapsed threads across page loads (although given that CSS is technically Turing complete it is probably possible if the state were persisted server-side, which you can do with an html form; personally I would just use JS and cut my hosting costs). Check out this demo of CSS-only HTML:

http://codepen.io/ekrof/pen/YqmXdQ/

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#398

Post by theli0nheart »

rachkovsky wrote: post #378
theli0nheart wrote: post #121

Thanks, folks, for the great improvements! 1. The time-capsule feature is really cool. Traveling back in time to see what sort of tech people were building / what other things were on the front page when X popular product launched is going to be so much fun. Update: it only goes back about a year and a half. See below. 2. Undoing votes has also been something I've wanted for a long time. I've accidentally downvoted/u…

Which bookmarking service do you use, just curious?

I use Pinboard. FWIW, I also write one of the more popular iOS apps for it. :P

http://lionheartsw.com/software/pushpin/

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#400

Post by acjohnson55 »

peterkelly wrote: post #395

The collapsing comments thing is great, but what I'd really love to see is the ability to display only the top-level comments, so then I can drill down to sub-comments I'm interested in reading. Often I find that there'll be one sub-comment thread I'm not particularly interested in (e.g. discussion trails off into a completely different topic) and end up scrolling a lot to try and find the next top-level comment.

When I was at HuffPost, we briefly had a comment interface that let you switch between depth-first and breadth-first comment listing. We retired it pretty quickly with our entire comments system, but I remain convinced that some version of that is the way to go.
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