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Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#134
For the "comments" page, how about putting each comment in context, by indenting it underneath the submission to which it belongs?

I know you've got a "parent" link there already, but it's not something people are going to click for each one (and the comment text alone is often not enough to figure out what it's in reference to).

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#135
For some reason, the submit page isn't doing dupe checking anymore-- it doesn't take me directly to the discussion page of the article being resubmitted. This means I have to go back to the homepage and find the article I clicked to find the discussion page.

Also, there's no link to the homepage from the submit page-- clicking the icon takes me to the YC main page, not the news.yc main page.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#136
Add a way to contact another user directly, not necessarily Personal Message, maybe something along the lines of sending an email address from one user to another privately.

The current method seems to be posting your email address in the comments with something like, "Hey, email me about that . . ."

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#137
1. Make it clear that feature requests are not welcome as threads on the submit page. Provide a link to this thread.

2. If no URL is given, prompt the user to submit a comment before creating the thread. If given, always display that comment at the top of the page.

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