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

As posted in another thread: Please add a view of only startup / site review threads.

Also please change the way 'threads' view is sorted to bring the most recent thread to the top, meaning my most recent post in a thread of comments rather than my most recent root comment.

Please add item summary abstracts (or better yet complete text) to your RSS feed. Publishing headlines only doesn't convey enough information to decide whether the article is worth clicking through to.

I see this problem in every social news site, and also here: it seems that over a few days, 3 or 4 posts will eventually refer to exactly the same "news". But unless the duplicate submission has the same URL, the redundancy isn't detected.

Users should be able to flag new posts as duplicates, and identify the "older" headline to use instead.

If enough users agree that a post is redundant, then it would become "merged". The oldest submission on that topic is then rewarded all vote-up karma points from all duplicates, and displays all comment threads. In addition, the duplicates either go away or are displayed side-by-side with the original in all lists, avoiding the problem where the "same" story is front-page news under one title and page 5 under another name.

When viewing messages on the Threads page often you have to click parent multiple times to see what the thread was in it's entirety.

Putting in a link maybe called thread start and making it go to the beginning of a thread would be a good idea.

Example:

5 points by vaksel 2 days ago | link | thread start | parent | flag

parent brings you up one message, thread start would put you at the beginning of the thread.

In the spirit of accountability and openness, please add a "history" link next to headlines or posts which have been edited. Version control is a good idea for source code, so why not for discourse?