Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator • Hacker News Board

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

#311

Post by hernan7 » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 5:55 PM UTC

The "Hacker News |" part at the beginning of the page titles is redundant; please remove it. 99% of the time, the Y-combinator icon is enough to identify the tab as belonging to Hacker News.

On a tabbed browser, a sequence of HN tabs looks like this:

(Y) Hacker News | Aa... (Y) Hacker News | Bb... (Y) Hacker News | Zz...

Where (Y) is the Y-combinator icon. So, I can see which tabs are HN, but I can't see what they are about (save for the 1st 1 or 2 letters of the title of the discussion, and a little browser-provided ellipsis).

If the "Hacker News |" was removed from the beginning of the title, I would still see that the tabs were HN, because of the YC icon. And I would also be able to see the first 15 or so characters of the title of the discussion, which would help the navigation.

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

#312

Post by ivankirigin » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 3:14 PM UTC

Posterous.com and Tumblr.com should both have subdomains listed in the domain details.

For example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446438 posterous.com -> tom.posterous.com

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

#313

Post by vegashacker » Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 5:38 AM UTC

I've noticed that sometimes the domain name shown in parens next to the link is kind of useless. Take, for example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=449670. "tumblr.com" is not useful in this case, but "titocosta.tumblr.com" would be more helpful--"oh, it's someone's personal blog named Tito Costa." Interestingly, it looks like sometimes you already do show more than just "domain.com", as in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=449221.

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

#314

Post by pj » Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 12:53 PM UTC

Disable submit buttons after clicking once to prevent accidental double posts or do it with code on the backend either way or maybe both.

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

#315

Post by tokenadult » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 9:25 PM UTC

Based on an example that appears to have been removed from the front page just now, I'd like to see an easy way to flag a user who is spamming up the site as well as the current way of flagging particular submissions.

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

#316

Post by uberc » Sun, Feb 01, 2009, 10:53 PM UTC

Reddit just added a feature that puts a dotted-line box around the headline you just clicked on, to make it quicker to find the headline to either up or downmod or comment on when you return to Reddit after reading the piece.

A nice feature which would encourage interaction after reading pieces.

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

#317

Post by kirubakaran » Wed, Feb 04, 2009, 2:57 PM UTC

When we mouse-over a username, please display karma|member-since.

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

#318

Post by damir » Thu, Feb 05, 2009, 8:14 AM UTC

When browsing with mobile it's annoying to scroll all the way to the top to be able to click on 'New' link.

Could you put 'up' or 'top' link at the bottom, next to 'More'?

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

#319

Post by wheels » Thu, Feb 05, 2009, 5:15 PM UTC

I'd like to have a setting on the users page to ignore all non-link submissions. I enjoy more of the news / discussion aspect of news.yc than the emerging message board aspect.

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

#320

Post by snprbob86 » Mon, Feb 09, 2009, 10:29 PM UTC

There appears to be a caching bug when I access HN from work. Sometimes, when I first browse to the page, the top right corner where my user name should be shows another user name and karma score. I've dropped that name into the global address list in Outlook and more than once it has come up as a valid alias for someone in a totally different building. If I click a link, the error corrects itself and I am logged in as myself.