Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Murkin » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 5:29 PM UTC

A little far from news. But after a few days using the site I find it to have an excellent community of users.

There are quite a few questions I would of loved to post for general discussion. Alas the discussions are limited to the posted news item.

Perhaps adding a general/daily discussion form where users can talk about general issues would greatly improve the experience.

Keep it up Boris

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

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Post by dfranke » Sat, Oct 10, 2009, 1:24 AM UTC

I notice the new 'avg' column on the leader board. Can you add a breakdown into submission scores and comment scores?

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

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Post by jakecarpenter » Sat, Oct 10, 2009, 8:57 PM UTC

Can we get a mute button? For those discussions that stay at the top for hours and usually degenerate into name calling anyway?

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

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Post by ivankirigin » Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 3:31 AM UTC

Do you have a way of tracking new comments on this thread?

It would be interesting if you have special tools that let you "follow" stories or even people. If I had to choose, I'd rather see the recent comments from a few select people than the front page.

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

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Post by abukres » Tue, Oct 20, 2009, 4:53 PM UTC

Please add some text in the body of the RSS feed. All I see is a subject line and an empty body. Sometimes that's not enough to determine if the post is interesting enough.

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

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Post by jraines » Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 10:10 PM UTC

I would like to see a "collapse" button to hide a comment's children, like on Reddit. With the new ranking algorithm, I do a lot more scrolling than I used to (good thing in terms of giving everyone's comments more visibility, but [-] would be handy)

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

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Post by cake » Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 9:37 PM UTC

1) I would be curious to see an experiment concerning the karma system, a downvote would cost you (2 karma) an upvote too (1 karma). You gain 1 karma per day if you visited the site, this means as you get to know the community and its codes more and more you get more control.

I think it could increase the value of the karma system, I am seeing a lot of downvotes that I can't explain or that I find unfair. I am also seeing excessive points on some comments.

2) Not related : if you browse someone's comments you may encounter truncated posts titles :

12 points by pg 1 hour ago | link | parent | on: Announcement: YC alumni will help us read applicat...

It would be nice to include the full title in the "title" attribute of those links.

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

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Post by jbr » Sun, Nov 01, 2009, 8:41 AM UTC

In the spirit of brainstorming:

  o Suggest users who upvote similar items.
  o Highlight items that have been upvoted by
    other users who upvote things that I upvote.

I'd love to write something like this, but would need the data. What are the impediments to publishing or sharing upvote data?

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

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Post by christopherolah » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 12:12 AM UTC

LaTeX/TeX style math, syntax highlighting.

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

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Post by kristianp » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 7:22 AM UTC

Bug:

I've just started using the noprocrast function. I find the 'retry' link expires well before the 180 minutes of wait is up.