It could be nice to have a way to change your password.
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
#182I really appreciate the procrastination preventer, but would like one change.
It is not enough that the reader does not spend too much time reading and commenting on Hacker News. Because willpower is a depletable resource, it is also necessary that the reader does not expend too much willpower resisting the impulse to spend too much time reading and commenting. When the "get back to work" page comes up, I find that I have to expend real willpower not to click on the override link (anchor) at the bottom of the page. To balance that change, you might simultaneously put a link to the reader's user page, so if he really needs to, he can go to his user page and turn the procrastination preventer off. (A logout link on the "get back to work page'd be nice too.)
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#183Looking at the all the positive responses to the Hacker News post "Are you a UK- based hacker..." posted by "dood", it seems readers of this site might well appreciate a forum area on the site for networking other YC readers or YC seed companies. There is a huge amount of goodwill amongst YC readers and this may be better accessed through a new part of the YC site rather than "Hacker news", eg perhaps you can build something in to allow readers to describe their skills/ideas and the type of YC readers they are either hoping to contact or happy to help etc.Just a thought.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#184please let me undo my votes! I'm reading on an iphone now, and it's really easy to hit the down button instead of up, or vice versa.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#185Per the http standard header responses are terminated with \r\n\r\n, however the headers on Hacker News are terminated with \n\n. See: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#186Is there a way to subtract points from a post? Or at least to undo an addition by mistake?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#187Inclusion of every new post or exclusion of every post from a particular website at user's discretion. Regexp based? Just to prevent the site from effectively becoming an RSS reader.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#188RSS feed that sorts by age, not popularity. The current RSS feed is all sorts of chatty, showing me a ton of repeats. Its annoyance factor is about to eclipse its usefulness for me.
If what I'm looking for already exists, I can't find it.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#189Add a page to http://news.ycombinator.com/lists that lists the sources/domains of submissions sorted by most-submitted (or highest voted among all submissions from that domain).
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#190I would like to be able to put quotes (blockquotes) on comments.