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If YC is full of such great product people and hackers, why wouldn't they use (searchable) permalinks? I'm assuming there's a reason for this, as its not the easiest way to do things.
> why wouldn't they use (searchable) permalinks? I'm assuming there's a reason for this, as its not the easiest way to do things.
It's straight forward, but not when you are using closures and continuations.
Instead of http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=KnmhPyrF1t Why not for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/news?page=2 ?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098756 > why wouldn't they use (searchable) permalinks? I'm assuming there's a reason for this, as its not the easiest way to do things. It's straight forward, but not when you are using closures and continuations.
How about some keyboard navigation shortcuts? (left-right arrows). It works on http://www.HnEasy.com .
If I remember correctly, there was quite a bit of teeth-gnashing over the state of password storage on HN awhile back, and it took the moving of mountains before things were changed (were they ever changed?).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098756 > why wouldn't they use (searchable) permalinks? I'm assuming there's a reason for this, as its not the easiest way to do things. It's straight forward, but not when you are using closures and continuations.
So... hacker news chose to let their product be limited by an engineering issue?
Those kind of links are a great irritation for me when browsing and reading HN. Instead of http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=KnmhPyrF1t Why not for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/news?page=2 ?