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Re: Non-Hacker News

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Post by hs »

I don't mind about off-topic posts since what i'm looking for mostly is short, witty / insightful comments

for example, pg may not comment on obviously "hacker" stuff like php thread, but he might on 'non-hacker' posts like healthy food, stock market, etc

that's why i avoid (skimming) posts with php, python, ruby, windows, linux, gnu, oss, fsf, mac, osx, apple since the probability that i get great comments is approaching zero [over time]

Yes, there's a "comments" link up there, but i still have to manually search

My suggestion is that hn to have an alert icon where the list of my favorite "thought leaders" comment on the post - think about gmail's star

so if a post has a star next to it, then maybe pg and some thought leaders comment on it ... that post could be interesting

"always take the harder path" ... commenting is harder than upvoting

Re: Non-Hacker News

#42

Post by newt0311 »

kcy wrote: post #28

Two suggestions - totally personal, so curious what other's think: 1) get rid of the front page dominating "welcome", I think it's unnecessary and annoying - people will click on the link and read more if they want to. 2) make the interface exactly like hacker news. For instance I think the bold titles is a bit distracting, esp after navigating over from hn. 3) one of my favorite features of hn is that I can often ju…

Firefox has a (to my knowledge -- undocumented) bookmark keyword feature which allows assigning keywords to bookmarks. These keywords can then be typed into the location bar and firefox with automatically load the bookmark. The keyword input box only pops up when you right-click on the bookmark and go to properties. This along with the search keywords probably account for ~40% of my speed when surfing. (tabs account for a lot of the remaining 60%).

Re: Non-Hacker News

#45

Post by netcan »

Would all of this "off-topic" go away if there was a reddit like check box for topics in the settings, HN & NHN that users could turn on/off. That way, a user can just turn off all NHN.

Sealing these two off with two different sites seems a bit much. Are strictly HN people so offended by NHN that they want it of there GD site altogether.

Re: Non-Hacker News

#47

Post by mdolon »

13ren wrote: post #44
alaskamiller wrote: post #12

Reddit?

done: http://www.reddit.com/r/nonhackernews/ note it's moderated (Matt, you can have this if you want - just a demo).

basically same thing as the slinkset site, no? i still agree with alaskamiller - if we do anything for unrelated content, why not use a forum?

more logic at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=312213

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