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

Show only the first and second level comments for faster browsing, like:

    - this is cool
      - seconded
        + view 120 more uninteresting comments
    - not so cool
    - my point of view gets lost

This way we don't have to scroll a hundred subcomments to get to the next comment in line.

When you submit a link it would nice to have the similar link check list the last 10 most recent post from the root domain. This would allow for slightly different urls being submitted for the same articles or story.

A list of 10 similar titles would be nice also, as the submitter may not have the time so do an indepth search for a similar article or may be limited by platform.

Please give us a syntax which allows for quoting a parent comment. I would vote for a '>' at the beginning of a line.

Please fix the bug where trying to connect my account to a Google account just leads me to a completely blank page http://news.ycombinator.com/openid_merge with the word "Unknown." (Sorry, didn't understand where to report bugs.)

I bookmark a lot of links that I read on HN. Can there be a button next to links with which I can bookmark them on the HN server on my account itself and later revisit them chronologically or categorically. Maybe also specifically 'search' these personally bookmarked links while coming back to read them.