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Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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No, mgiannopoulos[0], there is no limit on nesting replies that I'm aware of. I'm nesting another one now! There is rate-limiting, though, which is probably what you hit. Wait a bit, and you can reply. Or click the "XX minutes ago", and I've found you can reply there. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18186528

Strange way for rate limiting, allowing replies on one comment but not another.

I got this far, may as well continue the nesting experiment.

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

#192

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Strange way for rate limiting, allowing replies on one comment but not another.

I got this far, may as well continue the nesting experiment.

Yeah, this is still at the top for me. Moving it along! I wonder how far it would have to go before it starts having problems. Or before apps start having problems. Doing this from my phone, and the comments are starting to get fairly difficult to read.

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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"Finished" is the right word. Apart from small UI tweaks it's still the same site as in 2007... And that's part of what makes HN great! I can't help but think that a team of Very Serious Expensive UX Professionals would have made a mess of HN thrice over by this time. (Can't you just imagine the 2010 rewrite in Java and GWT, and the 2014 redesign as an Angular SPA with sophisticated giant web fonts all over the place…

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…

There's hnreplies.com for that ;).

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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post #192

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I got this far, may as well continue the nesting experiment.

Yeah, this is still at the top for me. Moving it along! I wonder how far it would have to go before it starts having problems. Or before apps start having problems. Doing this from my phone, and the comments are starting to get fairly difficult to read.

Well, I should at least help this scientific experiment...

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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Here is mine: - cap karma at 1000 points - get rid of the leaderboard Other than that I wouldn't change a thing.

> cap karma at 1000 points Why? > get rid of the leaderboard Why?

People want to see the podium only when they win. In other words, if you aren't leading the leaderboard, you don't want it.

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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post #192

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Yeah, this is still at the top for me. Moving it along! I wonder how far it would have to go before it starts having problems. Or before apps start having problems. Doing this from my phone, and the comments are starting to get fairly difficult to read.

Well, I should at least help this scientific experiment...

For Science!

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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"Finished" is the right word. Apart from small UI tweaks it's still the same site as in 2007... And that's part of what makes HN great! I can't help but think that a team of Very Serious Expensive UX Professionals would have made a mess of HN thrice over by this time. (Can't you just imagine the 2010 rewrite in Java and GWT, and the 2014 redesign as an Angular SPA with sophisticated giant web fonts all over the place…

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 think that is a better way to do it because it prevents long chains of comments that start looking like a conversation between two people.

Also, checking manually in peace is better than getting distracted by notifications.

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