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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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I bet whoever has the top comment on this one is going to see their karma go up and down as everyone tests out the unvote and undown feature. :)

I can't downvote. How much Karma do I need to activate it?

I got my downvote ability at around 550 or so...

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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post #77
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that the collapse is on the right. It used to be this way on Reddit too, but after users complained they moved it to the left. Right now it's hard to collapse a series of top level comments in a row since you have to keep moving the mouse around a lot. Feature request to move the collapse to the left side, like on reddit?

For me it's on both sides: https://i.imgur.com/vTPD63G.png One of those is because of a chrome extension. I guess just get the extension. :)

The one thing the web should have had from the beginning: flexibility of what happens to the contents on the client. Somehow this "feels right", given the original Alan Kay's vision of what should be happening on a personal device. Users should always be able to tweak things the way they like them.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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post #29

Still, the most urgently needed feature is missing: telling me which comments I haven't seen, yet. It's a constant nuisance in longer threads. Really, this is much more vital than just about every feature you've introduced over the last months.

FYI there's a chrome extension for that though not updated in a while and I didn't use it personally

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-unread-comments...

https://github.com/janhancic/hn-unread-comments

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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post #100

Dang those are some nice features! :-) I really really love the collapse feature. Does the collapse persist across new comments being added or are those not collapsed? We'll have to see. And final thought on the stories/submissions vs comments the challenge is that comment is both a verb and a noun, you comment, and you can read a comment. Whereas stories is always a noun. Submission is the correct name for something…

yeah collapse is nice, but curious what will happen on collapsed thread which is added to... i'm also confused, wasn't there already a "saved" section where upvoted items went previously? seems like all which was done was renamed a few items (and added the favorite which allows marking for later, without giving a vote)

Users could see stories which they've upvoted, but these were not visible to others. Your favorites will be.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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post #100

Dang those are some nice features! :-) I really really love the collapse feature. Does the collapse persist across new comments being added or are those not collapsed? We'll have to see. And final thought on the stories/submissions vs comments the challenge is that comment is both a verb and a noun, you comment, and you can read a comment. Whereas stories is always a noun. Submission is the correct name for something…

yeah collapse is nice, but curious what will happen on collapsed thread which is added to... i'm also confused, wasn't there already a "saved" section where upvoted items went previously? seems like all which was done was renamed a few items (and added the favorite which allows marking for later, without giving a vote)

The old 'saved' list still exists, but has been renamed to 'upvoted' because that is a more precise name. That list is private—we certainly don't want to publish users' votes.

The new 'favorites' list is for highlighting the best stories and comments you see on HN. That list is shared, because want people to browse each other's favorites. The idea is to help disseminate more of the amazing content that people post to Hacker News, much (most?) of which is only seen by a few readers. And I hope that for dedicated HN users it will be fun to curate your own list of highlights, plus see what others have on theirs.

Also if the most-favorited stories and comments turn out to be interesting, we'll publish those lists.

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