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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

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Re: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

#11

> If the comment desaturation makes Hacker News difficult to read, you can click on the comment's timestamp to go to its page where the comment will no longer be faded, or you can install the CSS extension discussed here. Or, you can select its text to see it in (typically) black on blue.

I get white on blue, but yeah, I also do this and it's very readable.

Re: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

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post #6

My only wish is that dupes weren't marked as dupes. It's not like you are submitting with the intention of creating a duplicate link (normally), it should just take you there instead of a [dupe] mark on your submission.

I should add a section on dupes to the list, as the policy is a bit inconsistent (for example, a post on a subject that gets a lot of upvotes but is not the original source, might have the original source submission duped to that later submission.)

Re: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

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>Likewise, topics around diversity and inclusion in tech have gained lots of visibility over the past few years. However, despite these discussions not being off-topic, they tend to be flagged to death by users regardless. Time to see see if mentioning this very clear behavior gets this link flagged/killed. Privileged people usually don't like having their privilege challenged.

It's less about privilege being challenged, more about "inclusion" being used to justify just about anything and often going too far.

Here's a comment in an official nodejs repository that got edited by a contributor to correct a pronoun on somebody else's post: https://github.com/nodejs/package-maintenance/issues/77#issu... (click the "edited" dropdown)

That you yourself come right out the gate guns blazing about "privilege" shows exactly why people prefer to just not have the discussion at all anymore on this forum. It seems more like flamebait and it never ends well.

Re: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

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>If a user has 251 Karma, they can set the color of the top bar in their profile settings Why on earth is there a karma requirement for this, let alone such a high one?

Think of it like a video game, which often gives people surprises by unlocking the hidden feature based on unclear conditions. I was really impressed was I discovered it for the first time. This feature is more of a Easter egg than a practical option.

If you really NEED to change the color, you can simply load a custom CSS in your web browser.

Re: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

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post #9

>Likewise, topics around diversity and inclusion in tech have gained lots of visibility over the past few years. However, despite these discussions not being off-topic, they tend to be flagged to death by users regardless. Time to see see if mentioning this very clear behavior gets this link flagged/killed. Privileged people usually don't like having their privilege challenged.

Nah. I think it's just aversion to culture war. I know I get more than enough of my fill on Twitter.

Your ability to ignore "the culture war" is the very definition of privilege.

Re: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

#18

>Likewise, topics around diversity and inclusion in tech have gained lots of visibility over the past few years. However, despite these discussions not being off-topic, they tend to be flagged to death by users regardless. Time to see see if mentioning this very clear behavior gets this link flagged/killed. Privileged people usually don't like having their privilege challenged.

One of the best ways to get downvoted is to predict in advance why you'll be downvoted! In this case you appear to be setting up a narrative to claim downvoters are evidence of a particular ideological point, when instead they might be downvoting you because you're being a jerk.

Re: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

#19

>If a user has 251 Karma, they can set the color of the top bar in their profile settings Why on earth is there a karma requirement for this, let alone such a high one?

I was kind of disappointed when I found out about this because I had already written a Userscript to do it for me

Re: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

#20

> If the comment desaturation makes Hacker News difficult to read, you can click on the comment's timestamp to go to its page where the comment will no longer be faded, or you can install the CSS extension discussed here. Or, you can select its text to see it in (typically) black on blue.

HN should update its color scheme. I use a quality IPS monitor with color calibration, and those comments are still hard to read.
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