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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
#542Please add the domain name to the RSS feed. Much like the posts on the page it would be Post Title(somedomain.com).
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#543Please ignore case when comparing submissions, as well as trailing slashes.
A dupe made it through today with identical URLs; but a special character was URL encoded using 2 different capitalizations:
http://steveblank.com/2010/10/13/too-young-to-know-it-can%E2%80%99t-be-done/
http://steveblank.com/2010/10/13/too-young-to-know-it-can%e2%80%99t-be-done/
(There is an "E" that was capitalized in the first submission.)
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#544HN is case sensitive when linking urls.
http://works.example.com HTTP://does.not.work.example.com
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#545Would love to see faces / avatars added like in the Facebook Group, that's a killer feature I think.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#546Flag Reason Field:
When a submission gets flagged, a "reason" string is entered by the flagger. This could be done via javascript event binded to the flag link, or by redirecting to a "flag" page that gets the id of the submission being flagged. The flagger then either types a short string, or selects from a limited set of reason from a dropdown box. The reason string is then displayed at the top of a submissions's comment page when the flag is approved as [dead].
The reason string could be added in the title, appended to the byline, as an autosubmitted comment, or as a new heading... whatever is easiest to implement.
Ex. if submission X is [dead] and a user has "show dead" enabled, when they click on submission X it will now say "spam", "duplicate", "inflammatory", "automatic" etc.
This would prevent issues like: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801727 A post was most likely harmlessly flagged and [dead]ened for being a duplicate of one by a cofounder, but a user who saw it interpreted it as persecution.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#547Subcategories for the feature request page would help me see if my suggestion is already here for me to simply vote up.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#548When I submit a story early in the morning on the east coast, I sometimes kill it. Hours later, long after it has rolled off the news page, California people submit the same story, but it has no chance of hitting the front page because it's "old". East-coast people should not be able to preemtively kill stories this way.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#549Some items are displayed multiple times in the "ask" section. For example:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748045
appears 3 times on the front page of the "ask" section (at least at the time this comment was posted).
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#550Differentiate whether something was killed by flags or mods, instead of saying 'Dead'
It would cut down on the need for comments like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815316