A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
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Re: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
#2Are you the person behind that list? If so, thank you! I referenced this list quite extensively last month when I was developing my iOS app HACK as it supports pretty much every endpoint referenced there!
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#3Does anyone know if 50 was the original karma limit for downvoting? I'm asking because I've always thought it was 50 and was surprised I was wrong by a factor of 10 :-).
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#4Are you the person behind that list? If so, thank you! I referenced this list quite extensively last month when I was developing my iOS app HACK as it supports pretty much every endpoint referenced there!
No, it's minimaxir: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=minimaxir
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#5Are you the person behind that list? If so, thank you! I referenced this list quite extensively last month when I was developing my iOS app HACK as it supports pretty much every endpoint referenced there!
No, it's minimaxir: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=minimaxir
Thank you mkl for answering me!
Re: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
#6Big discussion 4 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212822 (437 points/188 comments)
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#7'If the comment desaturation makes Hacker News difficult to read, you can click on the comment's timestamp to go to its page where the comment will no longer be faded, or you can install the CSS extension discussed here.'
Actually, it is also possible to just select the text. This will make it readable again, at least in my firefox.
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#8It's a great list, I've kept the link from the last time [0] it was posted.
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#9Comment collapsing is a useful feature. The problem with giving the largest weight to the most upvoted comment is it also gives a large weight to all replies (unless they're heavily downvoted). It's useful to be able to skip those replies once they get less interesting.
However, this does lead to yo-yoing: reading comments downwards, going back up to find the right collapse button then reading down again. It'd be useful to have a more direct "fast forward" button. Though admittedly I haven't thought this through in terms of UI design.
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#10> Downvoted comments (i.e. with a score This desaturation is the most annoying misfeature of Hacker News IMO, it makes reading comments very hard and negates the "bandwagoning prevention" that not showing a visible score has (which is a good idea). I'd rather judge for myself a comment's worth than have it faded out for me.
(yes there are workarounds, like using Stylus to override the CSS, but my comment is against the misfeature not trying to find a workaround)
On a similar note, i see a lot of dead comments which i guess are marked as dead by getting flagged too much - essentially using the flag as a super-downvote and driving whoever is flagged out of discussion, not just because of faded out text (which can be worked around) but because you cannot reply to dead comments. The idea is only goon on a surface level (stomp out the bad commenters) but in practice it often backfires since if someone is spreading misinformation and their comment is killed, you cannot reply to it with the correct information so all what people will see is the misinformation.