A full-text search facility for postings would be nice.
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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#102a good way to put chunks of code in comments. ideally some wrapper notation around the code that does all or some of the following for its contents:
-uses a monospaced font
-newlines get turned into
so that lines show up next to eachother
- get html escaped
- extra spaces and tabs get turned into s to preserve indentation
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#103Documentation on the mark-up allowed, e.g. italic, some way to post normal ASCII characters for code snippets, which in turn require line breaks.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#104The HTML header's title should have more page context in it so the browser's Back menu isn't a list of identical titles making selection difficult.
Cheers, Ralph.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#105The page showing the comments of a user should only show each post once. At the moment, if I have a conversation, me1 - you1 - me2 - you2 - me3, then m3 appears first as the most recent, then later me2 downwards, then later still me1 downwards. It's redundant clutter. The only benefit of this arrangement is my most recent posts are first instead of the most recent chain of my posts. I'd prefer the latter.
Cheers, Ralph.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#106Feature request: a way to escape an asterisk. Sometimes you do want to write a literal asterisk. (E.g. to say "a times b")
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#107Using character entities, e.g. & to give an &, works on submitting the comment, but editing the comment populates the form's area with an unescaped ampersand causing corruption on submitting the form. Encoding and decoding needs to be symmetrical.
Cheers, Ralph.
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#1081. Mark all items as read.
2. Avatars.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#109Prevent this kind of nonsense:
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15630
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#110Request: More meningful tag text. Paul, could you copy the text from the title of the article and palce it in between title tags?