This actually seems to be a duplicate, though it got a lot more traction than the previous post I know of:
“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
I honestly don't mind the lack of comment reply notifications because I find that it makes conversations less aggressive than on sites like reddit which do that. Less of a feeling of a mandated reply, more opportunities for other users to speak up on your behalf.
4chan doesn't have reply notification either and I wonder if the theory applies there..
Only if you post cats.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only thing I miss are comment reply notifications. Someone might reply to something I wrote in comments a week ago and I have to visit my comment history periodically to check that. It doesn't have to be an active notification. Just add a numeric field added to user account that means "you got N new replies" and show it in the top-right corner next to my username. Once I see it, I will go and browse through comme…
I honestly don't mind the lack of comment reply notifications because I find that it makes conversations less aggressive than on sites like reddit which do that. Less of a feeling of a mandated reply, more opportunities for other users to speak up on your behalf.
Someone might reply to something I wrote in comments a week ago
If you leave a lot of comments, going back a week to check your comments is quite the burden. In practice, this means you may never see such replies.
There used to be a 3rd party HN comment notify service and it went down. It was replaced with a different one. I seem to no longer be getting those either here lately. Not sure when it stopped, but recent-ish.
It doesn't matter that much for current, active discussions. But it does mean I am vastly less likely to have any idea that someone replied to something of mine from a few days back and that has to potential to have me ignoring someone asking a good faith question, among other things. That is something that somewhat bothers me.
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#174Aside undeadly.org the only other website on the internet in 2018 that doesn't leave any cookies in my browser. I am still amazed by that fact and applaud it.
I see five in mine.
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#175This actually seems to be a duplicate, though it got a lot more traction than the previous post I know of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178889
Hacker News can achieve perfection only after they figure out how to automate the merger of duplicate posts and their comments. This might be a problem for machine learning.
Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
#176This actually seems to be a duplicate, though it got a lot more traction than the previous post I know of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178889
Hacker News can achieve perfection only after they figure out how to automate the merger of duplicate posts and their comments. This might be a problem for machine learning.
I happen to like its messy imperfection. Wo unto us should they ever achieve perfection and stop having tolerance for imperfect people and their endless typos, auto-corrupt BS, misreadings of what the other commenter meant and myriad other human shortcomings.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
I for one would like to see some improvements. Here is my wishlist: 1. Markdown support 2. More profile capabilities. e.g. avatars, vanity URLs, link to your GitHub, Twitter, Stack Overflow, blog, etc. 3. Automatically create cache link for articles in case their hosts go down after being linked from HN. 4. Revision history for comments.
5. Comment reply notifications 6. Responsive design so the site doesn't suck on mobile What else? Honestly there's probably a _ton_ of stuff that could be improved, but given how change-averse the typical HN user seems to be perhaps just leaving it as it is _is_ the best idea.
> 6. Responsive design so the site doesn't suck on mobile
It's responsive on my end, I think they changed it this year.