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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
#682Please put a date in your rss feeds. At least a "last_updated" field!
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#683Please change your RSS feed http -> header -> content-type from 'text/html' to 'text/xml'.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#684Suggestion: Keep scoring duplicate submissions as +1 votes, but also add them to the user's publicly visible "submissions" list.
I'd love it if submitted links always appeared on the my "submission" list. Currently, they only appear if the link is a new submission, with submissions of existing links being treated as an upvote and added to "saved stories".
This is a reasonable default for the scoring purposes, but caught me today when I was looking back for a story I was sure I'd submitted some time ago. Because I went through the process of submitting it, I thought I would be able to find it by scanning my "submissions". No such luck.
In the absence of a personalized recommendation system, I also find it useful to look at what else my favorite posters have submitted. Since "saved stories" are not visible to others, whereas "submissions" are, this is lost information.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#685Email notifications when someone posts a response to one of your comments. Having to poll and scan the threads link is annoying.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#686I'd like to see keyboard shortcuts to upvote, follow or flag a link.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#687It has been pointed out several times that new items submitted to HN have increasingly less chance of being picked up because of how fast the new items page scrolls items out of sight. This problem will be growing as HN gets more users.
Maybe the approach of showing the list of new items in the "new" page is not necessarily the best one [anymore]?
An alternative approach would be to display a random subset of new articles from the past n minutes on each display of the new items page. This is particularly true for times when several articles are submitted per minute, which will only become increasingly common.
That way each submission would get more time (from a smaller audience) to be picked up and more quality items would be upvoted.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#688I subscribe via RSS and it would be helpful if each topic had a brief description (just a few lines from the first paragraph at least). If I want to read the whole article I will then visit the specific website.
If the whole article was the description that would also be OK; so I could read everything from my RSS reader.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#689I just spent two hours writing a comment, only to get "unknown or expired link" when I hit reply. Grrrrrrr.....
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#690[deleted] comments currently follow childless siblings without an intervening line break, making for very confusing threads (it seems as if the [deleted]'s children are children of the preceding childless sibling).