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

Please remove up-vote buttons from the main page for unvisited links. An absence of these buttons could enforce a vote-after-read policy.

Titles are easily abused therefore It is not a good idea to vote based only on title without reading comments and/or a linked page.

It could diminish a number of bait-like sensational titles too.

Add a footer to the comments page.

Justification : When I page down and hit the end of a page of comments, there is no visual cue in the page telling me that I'm at the bottom. Since I think I've gone down a full page, I lose track of where I was reading; which is annoying.

a reddit-style toolbar (ie. so you can easily comment/vote after reading).

Is there a way to do this already?

EDIT I just read that some use the bookmarklet for this: apparently, when you submit a site that has already been submitted, it takes you to the comments on it. Actually, that method is more general, because it also works for article you found in non-hackernews ways. Thus, the hackernews comments become annotations of the article.

However, the bookmarklet requires that you submit the article. This is bad because (1) it's an extra click (2) it will submit the article, in the case where it has not been submitted already. I guess that second point is not so bad, but it would be nice to have a goto annotation bookmarklet, which went directly to the comments. I hereby request this as a feature.

This requires an operator like:

  http://new.ycombinator.com/gotolink?u=[someURL]

that does a lookup to find the URL's id, and builds the following with it:

  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=[URL's id]

(i.e. the code that is already present in the submitlink operator. It just needs to be exposed as an operator in its own right).

And an annotation bookmarklet like:

  javascript:window.location=%22http://news.ycombinator.com/gotolink?u=%22+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+%22

shamelessly editing Phil Kast's bookmarklet

Please move the comment form to the bottom of the page.

It frees up space at the top of the page for already posted comments and It would encourage reading or at least skimming through previous comments before adding a new one.

A link to "top" (full thread) alongside "link," "parent," and "flat" on comments. It's really annoying to click through generations of "parents" from random individual comments.

Edit: I just realized SearchYC has this feature. An advantage over feeds and Google.