Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

It would be nice if all posts would still be linked to the main page somehow. OK, it would be nice for people pondering to crawl Hacker News. Even better would be a zipped download of all the posts...

Still, would crawling be OK? Since the old posts are not linked anymore, I consider crawling by id (check all ids up to 150000 - ugh...). I would try to minimize requests (one topic contains several ids in one go), but still...

Not sure if this has been asked before, but I'd like to see a feature that alerts us whenever someone either 1) posts a reply to a submission we made (should be optional) and 2) posts a reply to a comment we made on any submission (again, optional). An "alert" can either be an email or a message indicator on the site in the top right corner.

Liferea (linux feed reader - http://liferea.sourceforge.net/) is unable to parse your RSS feed. I posted a bug report (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=581684...) and they started to take care of it. Apparently, it's something with new line characters.

I've used Liferea for 3 years and AFAIR I didn't have any similar problems.

Reddit's feed is fine (in case you share the code - I'm not from around here...).

Categories. HN is getting a little out of hand on my rss and I'd like to be able to seperate content more.

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