I'd like to see the New York Times and some other major outlets blacklisted from submission. At this point the front page is about 10% NYT most of the time, which seems silly for something that's supposed to be a focused site.
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#342Sorry, I put this in as a submitted question.
Could you add a media type categorization to the submit page? I'm on a work computer without sound. Would be great if I could pass over the video and podcast links and only go to the blog/news stories. Nothing fancy like a filter - maybe just some radio buttons on the submit page for text|video|sound| that would appear in the listing.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#343The ability to tell how you are logging in and request lost login information.
For example, I think I used OpenID to log in, but I might have used Google instead. I don't know which. I tried to log in from home, and I got the cryptic "Bad OpenID error". I don't know if this meant OpenID was down at the time, or that I was using the wrong provider. There was no way to request an email with my login credentials, not even to my already entered email address.
Even from my work machine, where it remembers I am logged in, I cannot tell if I have a real account or if I have used one of the many OpenID providers. So I still don't know if I'll be able to log in when I get home.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#3441. Search function, so i can search for a story-- over time, not just on a single page
2. please explain how the point system works. do the points go with the author or article,and how do some articles have more than others?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#345I submitted the Ubuntu 9.04 story today, but the first link I tried to submit was already in the system, from when 7.04 came out. It will really be a problem to submit a link when 9.10 will be available, because it seems all 'good links' were already added. Can there be a recyclation system for links?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#346The suggestion was made
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575855
to have the title for the site be user-configurable. That could be helpful for people who don't want to display a title of "Hacker News" on a work computer.
My friendly suggestion is that if we must change the name of the site, which I like just fine, it would be helpful to call it "Helpful News," so that all of us who are habituated to calling the site HN could continue doing that without confusion.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#347"showdead" should allow me to follow links in killed submissions. Right now I can see the title of the dead links, but there is nothing I can click on to actually go to the page which was originally linked.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#348Can I write a recommendation engine for HN?
Simple item-based (hackers who upvoted this article also upvoted...) and/or user-based (hackers who upvoted similar articles to you, upvoted ... ) recommendations would be cool to see on HN, possibly as a way to access (relatively) older content that one might have missed. this assumes people are actually away from the site long enough to miss something -- unlikely. addicts!
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#349The exponential delay on the "reply" link's appearance means that sometimes the link is sometimes not present on the page. I believe that this reduces the ease with which someone can scan a thread, because it changes the layout and spacing of comments later in the thread.
My suggestion is that rather than not displaying the reply link, display greyed out text in its place that reads "reply", with hover text explaining why you cannot currently click it.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#350Add the on: [root_hn_url] link to comment metadata when viewing a single comment.
Rational: when viewing a single commment for whatever reason, you often want to see all comments. Currently you have to click through the chain of parents, which is annoying.