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Post by enedil » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 8:32 PM UTC

jshevek wrote: post #185

enedil wrote: post #126

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I have 117 and can downvote.

Are you certain? Maybe you are thinking of the 'collapse' button, which is represented by a minus sign?

Post by tedmiston » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 9:25 PM UTC

gedrap wrote: post #85

What I find more annoying is that it's on the right hand side even though all the other actions (vote on post, vote on comment, reply) are on the left hand side. Seems like a trivial thing but that is annoying quite a bit. >>> 5. Find out which stories were the most popular on HN on a given day by visiting /front?day=yyyy-mm-dd. You'll see all the front page stories for that day, sorted by how much time they spent th…

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Post by dingo_bat » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:22 AM UTC

graeme wrote: post #457

graeme wrote: post #390

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Many people have cofounders, but Scott is their particular cofounder. It's like saying "my dog" or "my house". The use of my doesn't change just because the noun changes.

I should add that if humans did have founders, then we would say "my founder". But we don't. So understanding of that phrase depends on us knowing the use of the noun cofounder.

Post by collapseToss » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:36 AM UTC

mortenjorck wrote: post #285

Someone1234 wrote: post #106

I have a piece of feedback. The new collapse button is at the end of the comment. This means that the collapse button's position on the page changes based on username length and duration wording (hours Vs. minutes, etc). One nice thing about other websites which I won't name, is that you can read and collapse all of the top comments without having to "seek" the collapse button constantly. You can literally scroll and…

For me, at least, the most frequent use case for collapsing a thread is in the middle of it, when the discussion has veered off into territory in which I have no interest. In this case, I need to either scroll back up and find the originating post of the thread in order to collapse it, or scroll down until I find the beginning of the next thread. What I'd like to see is a control that takes advantage of this right-si…

Post by drcreed » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 8:28 AM UTC

insin wrote: post #435

drcreed wrote: post #433

This update broke regular indentation for me; comments have no indentation at all for me now. My setup is: Chromium Version 54.0.2794.0 (64-bit) on Win8.1, uBlock Origin with literally everything blocked. I could start allowing scripts from news.ycombinator.com but I'd rather not make an exception.

Are you just letting us know you've determined that you can easily solve your own problem in less time than it took to describe it, but chose not to; or are you very subtly asking HN to inline hn.js into every single page because ? :)