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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
#632I'd like SSL. Especially since Y Combinator uses the same site for various internal things, it would be nice to be able to protect from passive monitoring at cafes (I use a VPN but a lot of people don't).
Splitting news.yc from the YC app, hours, etc. system might also be nice, so people can blackhole hackernews without losing YC functionality.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#633When flagging stories, please could we get asked for confirmation before the story is flagged? Since I started using HN on a touchscreen phone, I have found myself unable to precisely control where I click, meaning that I have accidentally flagged a lot of stories. A simple "are you sure you want to flag?" would save me from having to click unflag so often.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#634Have a "widget" that allows users to display their submissions (or recent number of submissions) on another site.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#635Delete stories button, or maybe downvote button equals this delete behaviour.
Reloading the front page will not show stories that I've deleted.
That way my valuable front page slots will be full of stories that I have upvoted, or forgot to vote, or that simply are new :)
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#636I'd like to see an official "HN Marketplace". Whether that means building a new service (doubtful) or simply having pg endorse an existing site (http://www.hntrade.com, perhaps) is an open question. If pg felt comfortable endorsing, and linking to, an existing site, I think it would be a win for everybody.
Why is this a good idea? Because more than a few of us would probably be good trading partners for various things.. domain names, services, and $DEITY knows what else. But with no official market, people are left to just spam HN with their "domain for sale" and "service trade opportunity" things. And I expect more than a few people have domains, startups, whatever, for sale, but don't post because they don't want to be seen as spamming the site.
Edit: Disclaimer - I have no affiliation with, or commercial interest/stake in, hntrades.com. I just mentioned them because it's the only HN Marketplace site I'm familiar with.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#637I would like the ability to follow users.
I would like the votes, comments, and user submissions of the users I'm following to help curate a personalised version of the front page that is of specific interest to me.
Doing this would mean that, when I found people that I thought were intelligent, the front page and threads I was looking at would not reflect the general user bases opinion, but the opinion of the members of the user base that I hold with highest respect.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#638Fix srv.arc to recognise "Content-Length:" case-insensitively
(in (def parseheader ...)).
Lynx says "Content-length:" in the POST requests it sends, which are thus rejected.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#639Make "saved links" page public.
Or at least accessible by crawlers if the user allow it.
Use case: I'd like to see all the links I have upvoted to be indexed by Trunk.ly so that I can find them later if I want.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#640Reiterating a past request because I can't reply to it.
Please can we get sub domains for google domains displayed. Especially now that we have google plus, I'd like to know what the actual service a link is coming from is. Google code is especially confusing. There are lots of project announcements at I initially assume come from google but are just hosted on google code.