Bring back down arrows on story submissions, but instead of voting the story down like before, enough down votes would show the community disagrees with that type of submission.
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
#162There are a lot more posts on the front and new pages now... can I have the option of viewing 60 or more posts at a time?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#163On the profile page, break out the components of a user's karma.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#164Next to the email area in user profiles, add a checkbox for display/don't display email in profile.
If the user enables this option, their email address is shown as an image (or otherwise spam proofed) in their profile to other logged in users.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#165Ability to check if one URL is submitted already, but then submit another.
E.g. you want to submit http://example.com/#part2
But first check if someone has submitted http://example.com/
Right now you either have to submit your less-preferred URL, or browse around and use google to see if the less-preferred URL has already been submitted.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#166Provide a reply indicator similar to Reddit's red envelope. Make it a #part link to the most recent new reply on my threads page.
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#167Render text between asterisks as emphasized only if there is no space between the asterisk and the contained text, and only for pairs of asterisks. If there is any space, or for unmatched asterisks, assume the author really meant to place a star there. This is to prevent things like the following
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137
where the author meant to use the asterisk as a multiplication symbol.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#168I think a formatting cheatsheet would be quite useful. I was just commenting a few minutes ago, and I wanted to put some rather large URLs in my comment, but I couldn't figure out the markup to link a text string to the URL. (It's just occured to me that perhaps I should have just tried HTML. If that's the case, I'm stupid.)
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#169Please add a wiki. news.yc has become a "community" and we need a way to store stuff longer-term.
Or, if someone else sets up a wiki, could a link be added to it on the navigation bar?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#170Can't locate a 'SEARCH in news' function.