pg, when will HN be getting hashtags? This is an essential feature!
Facebook now has clickable hashtags
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#13While it makes logical sense I can't help but be saddened by the further misuse of hash tagging by the clueless.
what's the proper use? I'm one of the clueless
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and it will take another 20 years before we realize that in most cases we don't really need upper case letters. now burn me for heresy.
Forgive the crudeness of the example, but there's a huge difference between the following two sentences: I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse. i had to help my uncle jack off a horse.
i had to help my uncle, jack, off a horse.
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and it will take another 20 years before we realize that in most cases we don't really need upper case letters. now burn me for heresy.
Forgive the crudeness of the example, but there's a huge difference between the following two sentences: I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse. i had to help my uncle jack off a horse.
I suspect a reduction in the number of people with names like that, much like Dick, Gaylord, etc.
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#16#slowclap
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#17I just tried it with a post that included #nsa and it's not clickable. Not rolled out yet or am I too dumb?
They're really slow with rolling out new features it seems, as proven by the re-design of the news feed. Myself and others haven't received it yet.
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Forgive the crudeness of the example, but there's a huge difference between the following two sentences: I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse. i had to help my uncle jack off a horse.
i had to help my uncle, jack, off a horse.
And that doesn't "read" well.
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#19pg, when will HN be getting hashtags? This is an essential feature!
just start using them now so when pg implements them the content will already be ready.
#hashtagallthethings #earlyadopter
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#20As someone who created a startup around a hashtags search engine (1), I'm very glad of this development from a business point of view - the more hashtags are used, the better. As I already wrote (2), though, I'm not sure if this is a great move for Facebook in the long run. Facebook owns the incredibly compelling core expectation of "easily sharing with friends and family through the Internet". But, for obvious reaso…
> "My guess is that you can't..."
Why would you guess that you can't be that place? Personally, it would make much more sense to have a place where I share all my stories and then choose whether it should be for the public or just personal (like how it's currently done with Facebook). That makes more sense to me than having two separate sites to share public vs personal, as long as there is still the aspect that personal DOES, indeed, stay personal.