An option for having submissions of selected users to float to my front page even with a score of 1 (and perhaps staying there longer than under normal circumstances).
Call it "tracking" or "following the user" if you will.
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#512Let me follow people. I just learned about Bret Taylor's account.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440154
I'd love to click "follow" next to that comment. Then I want my view on hacker news to be heavily weighted by the mods from the people I follow (you could make it a mod on the normal ranking, like a reordering of the top stories). A friend comment view would be even more useful - like the thread view for any user, but collected among friends. A synopsis view of the comments without the full thread and only the first 200 chars of the comment would be easy to digest.
Generally I think the solution to making HN not suck is to let me ignore completely the parts that suck.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#513I was wondering if you could add a link to the hacker news homepage to the "Unknown or Expired Link." response that you serve up. Often I'll click more on an old page or hit back on an article I am reading and get this response. My next action is almost always to navigate to the homepage.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#514Can the stylesheet be tweaked to say font-family:Verdana, sans-serif; instead of font-family:Verdana;
Otherwise, systems without Verdana installed show a serif font.
Thanks.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#515I've got thousands of saved pages, and I was trying to find one I saved a year or two ago. It's a disaster. Having to page dozens of times, trying to physically spot the text.
Sure would be nice to have a single page with everything saved right there. Then I could just search the one web page for what I'm looking for. I could also put these in a spreadsheet or database for future reference.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#516I would like to see the servce ingboo.com used on this site. Their tool allows you to take rss updates to any channel you want like facebook,twitter,email,igoogle,etc. Its a free tool and would make readers lives easier.
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#517Would be great, if you could include whole articles in the RSS feed. Making it easier to read it offline, on the go.
Also a more flexible layout, better suiting devices with limited screen sizes (read mobile, aka iPod/Pad/Phone) would be great.
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#518I would like updates from Hacker News by texting the word Hacker to 90210. And then you all can send out personal messages to your fans! It would also be nice if you allowed me to be your agent to sign you up :). I just think it would be so cool to get Personal Updates from the DNA running Hacker News via 90210 :) Thank you so much for all of your support in the community! www.danielnabors.com explains it all i felt this would be an Exciting Deep Story and strong individuals like your selves would see the Vision :)
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#519put http://searchyc.com/ as a search feature and ban google and other popular search engines from indexing HN. Please tell me why this is a bad idea.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#520Echoing a lot of comments here, a following facility would be excellent. I haven't needed to follow specific people much, but I'd really like to be able to follow specific threads. Some threads interest me a lot and I'd like to keep track of the comments, but as the threads get longer it becomes a lot harder to tell which comments were recently added.