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

#371

Post by extension » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 1:23 AM UTC

Please convert newlines to
s in posts/comments. This is nearly always what is expected and there appears to be no other way to insert single line breaks. It's been about a decade since I saw a browser that didn't line wrap textareas.

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

#372

Post by elidourado » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 3:45 PM UTC

Please include the URL or domain of the linked item somewhere in the content field of the RSS feed.

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

#373

Post by rbanffy » Wed, Jul 22, 2009, 12:44 AM UTC

Perhaps karma should decrease with time unless it's "replenished" by upvotes.

The idea is valid because one can "game the moderation system" by having multiple 100+ point accounts and use them do downvote comments they don't agree with while upvoting their own comments.

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

#374

Post by tvon » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 8:42 PM UTC

Is anyone ever going to fix the Facebook Connect login setup? Is there anywhere to report bugs where they are actually see or do we just rely on someone finding it here?

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

#375

Post by mhartl » Fri, Jul 24, 2009, 9:58 PM UTC

Over the years, I've noticed a lot of people on Hacker News using underscores for emphasis, like _this_, instead of asterisks, like this. How about supporting both?

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

#376

Post by ks » Sat, Jul 25, 2009, 5:30 PM UTC

Perhaps there should be a separation between points for a comment and karma?

Now, a user's karma is the sum of all points, so it doesn't necessarily say much about the average quality. What if the maximum limit a comment could modify your karma was from -2 to +2?

I'm not sure how this should be calculated, but perhaps a score between 2 and 10 would add 1 karma point, and everything above would add 2?

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

#377

Post by pjvandehaar » Tue, Jul 28, 2009, 4:59 AM UTC

Assuming that placement on the front page is determined by points/age, allow users to set the weight of age. If I were to set the weight to .3, I would end up with the "/best" page. Users might set this based on how often they visit, via a textbox in the upper-right of the news page.

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

#378

Post by jlgosse » Tue, Jul 28, 2009, 3:24 PM UTC

Why not do a Y Combinator feature similar to Kiva? Members of the community can post information about their startup idea, and then people can give out micro-loans or micro-investments.

I think that would be super cool.

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

#379

Post by nphase » Tue, Jul 28, 2009, 9:36 PM UTC

I'd love a point threshold thats configurable on the RSS, so that I can put hacker news back into my rss reader without worrying about massive amounts of pollution.

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

#380

Post by alanthonyc » Tue, Jul 28, 2009, 11:31 PM UTC

Can you please increase the size of the 'Comments' links under each posting? I often click on the comments first to determine if I want to proceed to the actual article.