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Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by dang »

hanoz wrote: post #67
dang wrote: post #3

Not new; just the link at the top is new. The hard part was what to call it. Since the point is to give people more to read, 'more' seemed right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512028 Edit: Oh, also: "more" fits with the "More" links you see at the bottom of the front page and other places, clicking which takes you back to previous posts. Edit 2: Ok, you guys have…

Surely "top" would be more suitable. Now when I want the second page of "more" I have to ask for more more.

I would say "top" has different connotations.

More more doesn't seem so bad? It's between more and more more more.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by EamonnMR »

natebleker wrote: post #16
franky47 wrote: post #8

I like the "Time Machine" feature of going back 1 (to N) year(s) in the past, it brings a lot of insight as to how technologies and trends evolved (for those of us who have only recently joined Hacker News).

This is one area when the functionally can really be improved over what reddit implements. Having a moving window of time to sort within is an amazingly useful feature for sorting out trends or lost articles. The expanded granularity would be very much appreciated.

Also with Reddit being able to trace causality between memes and such would be interesting.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by O1111OOO »

digitaltrees wrote: post #113
dang wrote: post #3

Not new; just the link at the top is new. The hard part was what to call it. Since the point is to give people more to read, 'more' seemed right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512028 Edit: Oh, also: "more" fits with the "More" links you see at the bottom of the front page and other places, clicking which takes you back to previous posts. Edit 2: Ok, you guys have…

Snapshot. Or Time Capsule. It’s really like a glimpse of the most important news on that specific day. More just feels like moving to the next page. Really cool concept in my opinion; no matter what the name is.

Agree. More is too often used to display 'more options', which is what I thought this was going to be. I tailgated on your Snapshot and "Time Capsule" suggestions (which I liked) to try to find other one word alternatives. Came up with the following:

cache, record, timecard, log, chronicle, registry, diary, chronology, timeline, calendar, register, log and archive.

I'm partial to snapshot, archive and timeline - as one word substitutes.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by ShamelessC »

tedmiston wrote: post #33
chmaynard wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Just a reminder, don't forget to add a "hide" button under each post. Some of us use "hide" a lot. :)

Just curious what purpose you use hide for? It's a feature I've always kinda ignored. (If I don't want to see a story, I just keep scrolling.)

It's good for personal bookkeeping. Whether you've already read a story, the comments or just have no interest - it's nice to get off your page so you don't have the unnecessary clutter and/or distraction.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by ashishtilak »

dmix wrote: post #115
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like both of these options (more than "more")

It’s neither past nor old but rather it shows the full current day first. Rather top posted grouped by day. So maybe a new ‘top’ IMO.

Or call it 'archive' may be!

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by dangwu »

Any plans to update the official Hacker News API? I’d love more features, such as ability to reply and upvote, but more importantly, the API currently requires using a really old version of Firebase SDK. The rest API is an alternative, but it doesn’t work well due to the design of the API needing a whole network call per post/comment.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by dang »

dangwu wrote: post #127

Any plans to update the official Hacker News API? I’d love more features, such as ability to reply and upvote, but more importantly, the API currently requires using a really old version of Firebase SDK. The rest API is an alternative, but it doesn’t work well due to the design of the API needing a whole network call per post/comment.

We're going to replace it with a new API that just gives a JSON version of any HN URL. Will that work?

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by brazzledazzle »

nmstoker wrote: post #93
dang wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, added.

BTW: If there was something to reduce accidental hits on hide and flag, that would be great. On mobile touch screens, being right under the main links they can get hit a surprising number of times and then you've got to go fumble around to undo it. Maybe a "comfortable" setting a la Gmail?

It keeps the normies away.

Just kidding (mostly).

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