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

#601

Post by intellectronica » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 8:16 PM UTC

Warn and suggest to strip in page anchors from URLs.

Every so often, people post good links with an anchor in the URL, just because they didn't notice it. It is almost never the case that it's done intentionally, so it would be nice if HN spotted the anchor and warned the user, suggesting to strip it from the URL.

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

#602

Post by xd » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 1:27 PM UTC

Would be nice to see a users up/down voting preference on their profile page. Maybe something as simple as a ratio?

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

#603

Post by molecule » Wed, Mar 23, 2011, 2:40 AM UTC

RSS Feed for Classic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/classic

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

#604

Post by xd » Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 11:14 PM UTC

It seems I just became worthy of judging bad karma .. any chance I can turn it off in my settings? Mainly because I don't want to accidentally down vote someone (this optical mouse has a habit of skipping a few pixels now and then), also I really can't see myself ever using the feature .. an eye for an eye and all that jazz.

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

#605

Post by Sloven » Sun, Mar 27, 2011, 3:16 PM UTC

Instead of open an original page with article I want to open the page prepared by YC with a button for fast return to HN. It’s handy to walk around the site and then turn back to HN. The BACK button doesn’t helps when you go deeper the site. Or it could be the button that opens comments.

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

#606

Post by skrish » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 11:03 AM UTC

Suggesting an idea already implemented in StackOverflow - Moderation by users with certain number of karmas.

Of late, we see lots of HNers complaining about kind of subjects being submitted and the high Noise to Signal ratio. Would it make sense to provide moderation ability to HNers with 10k+ karma and discourage such topics here?

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

#607

Post by ivankirigin » Wed, Mar 30, 2011, 12:52 AM UTC

to fight the lowering quality of comments, maybe you could make a meta-comment feature to describe what is wrong with the way they commented (as opposed to the content itself)

maybe making it public would stop people from making repeatedly bad comments.

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

#608

Post by bobstobener » Sun, Apr 03, 2011, 2:31 PM UTC

I'm addicted to HN. One little gripe ... can you have the links from the news list open into new tabs or windows? Makes it easy to return to the HN menu. Thanks!!!

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

#609

Post by AbyCodes » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 6:04 AM UTC

A RSS feed for each of the Hacker News list:

http://news.ycombinator.com/best

http://news.ycombinator.com/active

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

http://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments

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

#610

Post by JoshTriplett » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 10:07 PM UTC

Please change page titles from "Hacker News | $TITLE" to "$TITLE | Hacker News". Right now, my tab bar shows a pile of orange [Y] icons that all say "Hacker Ne...", which makes them impossible to distinguish. The [Y] icon already tells me the tab points to Hacker News, so an excerpt of the title would help more than the site name.