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

#671

Post by WiseWeasel » Tue, Oct 18, 2011, 5:39 AM UTC

I often find it difficult to tell which posts are new when I load the main HN front page, and I end up spending significant time and mental effort re-parsing the same headlines. This problem is compounded by the fact that my session often expires before I finish reading page 2 or 3 and try to go to the next page, making me reload the front page again and work my way back, by which point I have to scan all the headlines again so I don't miss any stories.

It would be nice if either story headlines I haven't been shown yet could be highlighted, or ones that have recently moved onto that results page could be highlighted, so I can tell at a glance which stories I might not have seen yet.

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

#672

Post by marcamillion » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 4:04 AM UTC

Can you change the color of the text for the Job posts plz?

I hate going down the line of stories on the main page and get confused by a job posting for a YC company. It kinda feels a bit deceptive to not have it stand out - given that it is completely different.

If not a MAJOR color change to the entire title, have something subtle (that is a different color) that acts as a visual cue to tell us it is not a 'regular' HN story.

Thanks.

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

#673

Post by shn » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 3:17 PM UTC

There should not be down voting for the comments. But number of votes should be shown and moved up so that others can see which ones liked by community and others "left behind". Removing down voting is essential if number of likes are going to be shown to eliminate any emotional response and action (=downvoting).

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

#674

Post by giulivo » Mon, Oct 24, 2011, 9:09 PM UTC

I would like to get an RSS feed for the user's upvoted/submitted links (questions).

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

#675

Post by lotharbot » Tue, Oct 25, 2011, 4:08 PM UTC

Request: please make the black memorial bar clickable (linked either to the memorial thread on HN, or to the official source of the announcement.)

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

#676

Post by najicalove » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 9:01 AM UTC

Is there anyway to separate stories based on technical competency? I love Hacker News, but can't stand having to skim over 50+% of the stories because they are beyond my comprehension- to get to the 40% of stories that I can actually learn from/understand.

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

#677

Post by ivankirigin » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 3:07 PM UTC

Interesting experiment to improve comments: only show a comment field or reply button on threads if the user clicked the story.

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

#678

Post by soundsop » Mon, Oct 31, 2011, 4:06 AM UTC

Please use https links to story pages in the https version of the rss feed.

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

#679

Post by ebabchick » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 9:57 AM UTC

highlight the link i just came from briefly and fade the highlight out over a few seconds when i return to the page via back button (or use some approximating heuristic ) ... i like to scan the page multiple times a day and i cant rely on the native highlighting to see the comment link on what i just read because the top stories are re-ordered throughout the day. so i have to scan the page visually for the title of the story. I'm going to make this a browser plugin for myself if you don't do it, but I'd rather everyone have this feature natively....

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

#680

Post by 3ds » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 7:20 PM UTC

I would like to be able to read HN on mobile devices more easily. I commited some code on github that achieves that:

https://github.com/nex3/arc/commit/0efaa1b189c4ed54c4f91a7ec...

It only adds a viewport meta tag and some styling which applies to small screens only by using a media query.

Please use it! Afterwards the site will look like this on the iphone: http://minus.com/lGBmQmM4CrdHE

Sidenote: Why can I commit directly to the github repository? I thought that by clicking edit, I would create a fork and work on that and create a pull request later. Strange. Or is this some kind of open-to-all repository?