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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by hacker42 »

arviewer wrote: post #420
hacker42 wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would also be handy to have some visual guides for the indentation levels of nested comments as on Reddit. I've hacked my own indentation marks using a CSS injection for now, but this is clearly still not optimal: @-moz-document url-prefix(https://news.ycombinator.com/) { td { vertical-align: top } td > img { background: repeating-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0,0,0,0), rgba(0,0,0,0) 38px, rgba(0,0,0,0.3) 38px, r…

Proper nesting layout will only work if they use proper nesting. Given the limitations - great job! I only use the first two lines as the png does not load.

Try this:

    background: url("data:image/svg+xml,") !important;

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by coldpie »

gedrap wrote: post #85

What I find more annoying is that it's on the right hand side even though all the other actions (vote on post, vote on comment, reply) are on the left hand side. Seems like a trivial thing but that is annoying quite a bit. >>> 5. Find out which stories were the most popular on HN on a given day by visiting /front?day=yyyy-mm-dd. You'll see all the front page stories for that day, sorted by how much time they spent th…

> " rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/>

I see this bug's still hanging in there.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by tripzilch »

trjordan wrote: post #39

Suggestion: Can you move the collapse button to the left of the username? One way I tend to use nested comment threads is reading all top comments, collapsing as I go. Great stuff, overall -- thanks!

yes. it doesn't make sense from any design perspective. alignment is an important visual signifier and usability design tool.

there is no reason why vote arrows would be aligned across posts (it suggests a connection where there is none), while there are several for the collapse buttons.

this is textbook user interface design!

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by username3 »

dang wrote: post #177
dragonwriter wrote: post #61

> You can collapse comments in threads. If you're logged in, collapses persist across page refreshes and devices for a week. This is a nice feature, though I'd prefer if collapsing preserved the "root" comment and collapsed the responses, rather than hiding the root comment.

We did consider that, but sometimes one wants to collapse a very long top-level comment.

Why not set a max height for the top-level comment and use overflow CSS?

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by hnapi-user »

dang wrote: post #164
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…

Alas, we only started tracking this data in November 2014.

I have historical rankings for all major list pages (/news, /news?p=2, /active, /best, /classic, etc) since 2014-05-05, if it's helpful. Currently 27MM records.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by basseq »

hacker42 wrote: post #355
aleem wrote: post #159

Some UI issues and recommendations. 1. The up/down arrows after a vote leave behind a clickable void. That means you can still click that void after you have voted. If you changed the visibility on .votelinks instead of the buttons this would get fixed. Though even better UX would be to have togglable up/down buttons ala stackoverflow and others. 2. Why not provide the favourite link directly on the comment instead o…

It would also be handy to have some visual guides for the indentation levels of nested comments as on Reddit. I've hacked my own indentation marks using a CSS injection for now, but this is clearly still not optimal: @-moz-document url-prefix(https://news.ycombinator.com/) { td { vertical-align: top } td > img { background: repeating-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0,0,0,0), rgba(0,0,0,0) 38px, rgba(0,0,0,0.3) 38px, r…

Riffing off your code, this extends the bars all the way up/down.

  td.ind > img {
      background: repeating-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0,0,0,0), rgba(0,0,0,0) 38px, rgba(0,0,0,0.1) 38px, rgba(0,0,0,0.1) 40px);
      margin-top: 0px;
      height: 100%;
  }
  
  table.comment-tree td,
  table.comment-tree tr,
  table.comment-tree th,
  table.comment-tree,
  table.comment-tree tbody,
  table.comment-tree table {
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
      border-spacing: 0;
  }
  
  table.comment-tree td.default {
      padding: 0.5em 0.5em 1em 0.5em;
  }
  
  table.comment-tree td.ind {
      padding: 0 0.5em;
  }

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by dang »

hnapi-user wrote: post #445
dang wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alas, we only started tracking this data in November 2014.

I have historical rankings for all major list pages (/news, /news?p=2, /active, /best, /classic, etc) since 2014-05-05, if it's helpful. Currently 27MM records.

Sounds like it might be useful for getting the front page archive to back that far. Can you email us at hn@ycombinator.com?

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by Houshalter »

dang wrote: post #403
aleem wrote: post #159

Some UI issues and recommendations. 1. The up/down arrows after a vote leave behind a clickable void. That means you can still click that void after you have voted. If you changed the visibility on .votelinks instead of the buttons this would get fixed. Though even better UX would be to have togglable up/down buttons ala stackoverflow and others. 2. Why not provide the favourite link directly on the comment instead o…

#1 should be fixed now. Thanks! Re #2: yes, clutter (icons don't solve the clutter problem, and HN's design is emphatically textual), plus there should be a bit of a speed bump before favoriting much as there is before flagging.

What about discoverabiliy? I doubt most users are aware flagging or favoriting comments is possible.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by dang »

Houshalter wrote: post #449
dang wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

#1 should be fixed now. Thanks! Re #2: yes, clutter (icons don't solve the clutter problem, and HN's design is emphatically textual), plus there should be a bit of a speed bump before favoriting much as there is before flagging.

What about discoverabiliy? I doubt most users are aware flagging or favoriting comments is possible.

That's definitely a problem, which we're thinking about.
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