Bug report: When I am logged in, http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=evgen shows that evgen has made no comments, but http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=14943 is written by evgen. The parent comment to this comment is one written by me. When I'm logged out, http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=evgen shows the thread where evgen responded to a comment I made.
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#112My karma shot up mysteriously sometime in the past few days. I thought people were replying to my posts but no, my posts were still lonely.
If this isn't a bug, the request is for a more transparent karma system.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#113Ability to find out if the new article that I am posting has already been posted in the past or not. I wanted to post a few articles from venture blog but before posting I searched on Google using "title of article + news.ycombinator" as a query.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#114More stats on the leaders page please. Karma breakdown by submissions and comments. Number of submissions and comments. Mean, mode, median? A means of entering a username and seeing the table +/- 15 around it.
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#115Show the number of responses to my posts/comments next to my name, let's say: mojuba (44/120), where 120 is the total number of messages in all threads I'm involved in. This will give me a chance to know if someone replied in a thread I started by just looking at the number. What I'm doing instead is I'm checking my "comments" page regularly, from top to bottom to see if anyone replied to me.
I saw this feature on other social sites, it works pretty well.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#116So, it might be my browser, but whenever someone uses a British pound or a Euro currency symbol in a comment, it shows up as two ascii characters rather than the desired unicode character.
You might wish to: 1) verify your database and code support unicode 2) use the utf-8 charset for your pages instead of ISO-8859-1
:)
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#117On the 'submit' page, adding a note about the feature request thread would save us lots of "Upvote this if you'd like news.yc to..." posts.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#118I commissioned a Firefox extension to add a "Mark as read" button to news.yc: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19816
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#119Originally at http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19920
Paul, might you modify the submissions page to have some guidelines?
Point people to the Feature Requests thread as they clearly don't notice the link at the bottom of the page. Remind them that this is Startup News so it would be good if the posting was applicable. Tell them where to find Slashdot if that's what they want. And explain that they are not the only ones with RSS feeds so they don't need to just copy links from there to here.
Personally, I think news quality has degraded since karma came along. Some people are clearly keen to move up the leader board and starting a new thread is one way to do that. How about not rewarding karma for a thread's score? It can still be voted up by others to show it's interesting but karma must be earned by quality comments on the thread. Either that, or let us down vote threads to penalise non-applicable threads.
Better statistics may help show some light. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=18085
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#120Long URLS break the page.
http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp...