A setting in my profile which specifies the maximum width a line of text can be. Reading the long lines is annoying, but i like to keep my browser maximized for other purposes.
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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#322Can we get rid of the direct URL to log out?
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#323How about adding a rate-limited amount of "bigpoints" to the voting system?
E.g. each user would receive one "bigpoint" per week. The bigpoint could be given out to any story/comment and would count like 5(?) normal votes. Unused bigpoints should not accumulate (or only to a small backlog of maybe 2 or 3).
I imagine this might help to make the extra-ordinary content stand out more.
What do you think?
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#324One feature that I think will make a difference visually is to hide the items you've saved so everything on the new or home page will only show items that I haven't read before. I think it creates a better flow for screening through the topics. So a reader doesn't need to stop for a microsecond to skip over a saved item.
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#325I'd like to see the comment ordering algorithm reflect the interestingness of the replies subtree. I'd like to see a 1 point comment with a 20 point reply above a 3 point comment.
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#326There are some abuses with new accounts posting self-serving links, e.g. they've existed for 20 minutes and have 1 karma, and have already posted 2 links to exactly the same web site.
New users should be put on a waiting period, and/or need a minimum comment karma level, before being allowed to post.
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#327Wikipedia style system for quality control.
Guidelines for comments shown beneath the "reply button."
Guidelines for submissions shown on the submit page.
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#328I would really like https encrypted login, so people can't see my password when I log in to the site. Is this feasible?
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#329Allow users to subscribe to other HN users' synopses, such that I would only see my favorite commenter's synopsis. Simply place it to the right of the link, taking up all that space that is not being used yet; put the synopsis in a more transparent color than the other text- like the We ( as synopsis authors ) would invent shortcuts for rating and summarizing the content that would fit to the right or be truncated. And when a user clicks on comments, the full synopsis is always at the top of the comments.
And maybe the descriptors that different users would implement ( like their own tags/ratings for the content ) would become unique to that user, eventually, and have contextual meaning to that author. Each synopsis author would have their own tags that they could reuse. Only people who subscribed to that author could see their synopsis so authors' silly or cryptic or worthless synopsis descriptors would not clutter HN readers' experience unless they subscribed to a particular s-author ( synopsis author ).
So each user could have a customized right-hand HN site by subscribing to other synopsis authors and each synopsis author would have their own ways ( tags, most likely to start ) for communicating concise summaries/likes/dislikes of the content posted on HN.
This is the thread that started this suggestion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503983
I wanted to move this thread here, since it is more appropriate.
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#330A lot of people submit "rate my startup" links. There are two ways to do this - either sumbit a link to the homepage with an appropriate title or submit a question-like post with the homepage link in the title and additional commentary in the text field.
In the first case, the author must add a comment the regular way which may not be at the top/visible the whole time. In the second case, there's no direct link to the homepage, one has to copy it or type it manually.
I would appreciate if HN would improve the UX with these kind of posts. I won't suggest a solution, I'm sure PG will come up with something clever if he decides to implement this.