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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
#392BUG:
I apologize if this is already posted somewhere here, or if I have failed to find where the bug submissions should go.
There is a bug when submitting a post containing text (no URL). The form you are presenting when there is an error with submission converts multiple newlines to
tags, which are escaped on the next submission. To a naive user, it would appear that the substitution of those tags would be "courtesy" formatting, not invalid formatting that will be escaped and show up in the resultant post.
To reproduce: 1) Set title to "Ask HN: Attempting to confirm a bug... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaa"
Set text to: "here is text
Enter pressed twice, I have not inserted any html tags
If this doesn't error and instead posts it, I apologize."
Click submit. Observe text in the box "text" has changed to: "here is text
Enter pressed twice, I have not inserted any html tags
If this doesn't error and instead posts it, I apologize."
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#393Make the comment box bigger. It might inspire people to leave longer comments.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#394It would be very handy to have a flag link right on the noobstories (and maybe even on the 'new') page instead of having to first click 'discuss', then 'flag'.
HN can be quite slow sometimes and that extra click could save a lot of time, especially if the 'flag' call could be made an ajax call, that way keeping the noobstories page clean would be simply a number of clicks on spam stories.
This thread seems quite dead, if there could be some kind of response that this suggestion is useful or that it won't be happening then that would be appreciated.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#395Karma is currently (roughly) calculated as the sum of a users submission and comment votes. I would be interested in seeing an alternative implementation that takes the sum of that users aggregate votes on each comment and article, raised to x.
For example:
If x was 1.2 and I had posted 3 comments with vote scores of [1,20,-10] my karma would be round(1^1.2+20^1.2-10^1.2)=22 as opposed to roughly 11 where it would stand now. I think it would encourage comments that are very thoughtful and discourage comments that are pure flaming.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#396It looks like the duplicate detector still needs more work. There are lots of duplicate submissions again.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#397An option to ignore submissions for certain domain names.
(Personally, I'd be happy if I never have to see another Techcrunch link again.)
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#398Can you test for browser type and make the upvote glyph larger if the browser is on a mobile device (e.g.iPhone)?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#399For link-bait titles, I look at the comments first to see if other people considered the article worth reading. This information could be exposed by displaying the ratio of clicks on the link vs clicks on the discuss link.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#400The duplicate detection should be improved, I have posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830030 and it ended up being a duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=828992 (the only difference is my entry pointed to the www cname)