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

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Post by martythemaniak »

I have a mockup of a feature that might improve voting on articles:

http://mld.dreamhosters.com/hn.png

Basically, new links open up in an frame, with a slim Hacker News bar at the top. The idea would be that as you're reading an article/finished reading an article, you'll be more likely to vote if the button is right there, rather than if you have to go back to HN and search for the post.

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

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Post by tmadsen »

As far as I can see, no one has asked this before. It would be /really/ nice if I could subscribe to an RSS feed of stories that has earned a certain amount of points, for instance 30. That way I most probably wouldn't receive pointless news about how facebook should look like.

Edit: Btw, what about including a point link in the feed, it's not like you're earning money by ads anyway. Thanks for a nice service!

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

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Post by sho »

Please add full titles to links in the "title" attribute, especially in comment parents. Then, users can hover over the (often truncated) parent link and see the full title without clicking.

Just to be super explicit, what I am asking for is for a link instance like this:

  Super last minute advice for startups applying for...
to be changed sitewide to this:

  Super last minute advice for startups applying for...

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

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Post by jganetsk »

Ideally, I would always like to be able to up-vote a submission while reading it. Since most submissions are of off-site content, I don't always have the capability to do this. Instead, I have to come back to HN after reading, search the list to find the submission again, and then click the up-arrow.

It would be ideal if a link to off-site content opened up a viewport page, with the content in one iframe and various HN-related controls in another iframe. Users could opt-in (or opt-out) of this behavior.

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

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Post by dowskitest »

I guess hackers shouldn't fat-finger or forget their passwords once creating an account, but I'm pretty sure some user named 'dowski' did just that. Maybe he's not a real hacker, but he'd like to login again. So I'd like to request a reset password feature or something.

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

#338

Post by asdfghjkl »

Security Issue (Availability)

Disable the use of "pre" tags or enforce maximum line lengths for "pre" sections on comment threads. Long "pre" lines widen the entire page width so you have to keep scrolling right and left to read. In addition to accidental problems, you might also run into problems with trolls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_spam#Page_widening

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