A recent thread (currently near the top of the main page) suggests that it might be useful to have an optional hat tip field on new submitted articles. Sometimes the submitter learned about the article from another source, or another HN participant, and just wants to get out of the starting block to post the article, while also acknowledging the source of the suggestion that the article is good.
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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#442I could not find a place where I could provide feedback with respect to your rss feedback. It returns text/html rather than text/xml which results in chrome misbehaving (adding all elements to tag)
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Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#443Please include more useful info in the rss feed. Currently, it only displays the submission title.
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#444Testing a HN bug, please ignore this comment.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#445Please consider enhanced duplicate detection as outlined and discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215
Simply compare the "title" field of the referenced page. If it matches, perhaps compare the domain name, ignoring any "www". Or perhaps not bother. The number of occasions the title matches when the page is different should be sufficiently small.
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#446I think it is nice that we get submissions from older articles that are a few years old every once and awhile. They're healthy reminders of popular articles of days gone by.
At the same time, there seems to be a lot of recycling of older posts going on lately in attempts to grab karma. I feel like this is a too-cheap way to gain these points-- instead of sharing new useful information with colleagues, the system can be gamed by sharing too much of yesterday's useful information.
Flagging something as [old] would be useful -- perhaps some of the folks who've been here for awhile can opt to ignore them a la a browsing interface like /classic/ while still having the option of getting to these useful artifacts if we want.
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#447It would be great to have a history export feature. By the way, I must admit I sometimes upvote only to save the thread and read it later. A distinct Save feature could result in more strict upvoting...
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#448As a first implementation of the tagging/flagging system, can you turn on the meta tag?
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#449One great feature would be the ability to mark/bookmark threads as favorites and then to view them listed under my avatar. I can use browser bookmarks for this, but this would really help IMHO.
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#450newcomments would benefit from better context (e.g., showing the parent).
Also, real-time updates in newcomments would be nice.