It has been mentioned a few times below, but I'd love to see search implemented. It'd be useful for knowing what has been submitted, as well as make the wealth of information already on news.yc more accessible.
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#142Can we build a local community out of YC news? Currently YC is focus is the US. For the RestOfWorld, can we have a country/city page that links to a local startup website or a yahoo/google groups page?
This would to some extent help facilitating potential co-founders -- since that's a constant them on this board.
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#143Allow users to choose to either add a comment or add a sub-link to the primary link. It's amazingly common to have great links burried in the comments. It would be great if there was a way to have them show up near the top, under the primary link.
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#144Recently I have seen the proportion of weak submissions become very high, high enough that I think a down vote arrow for submissions to help weed out content would be beneficial.
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#145BTW, How to restore forgotten password? I didn't find that feature on the site.
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#146Separate ask.yc from news posts. The questions often generate good discussions, but die too quickly because they get pushed off too quickly.
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#147Detect and prevent someone from running through a user's threads down voting a lot of them in quick secession.
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#148I'd like a reference page for the markup syntax used in comments.
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#149I often look to the comments of a particular user, like people I know or PG.
It would be nice when looking at a comment to immediately get the full context with the submitted story and top level comment. I find myself hitting "parent" many times, when a "root" button would be useful.
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#150Can you put a page views number in front of each submission?