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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
#72These ideas need some refinement, but:
If an article you submit reaches the end of the "new" page with no up votes it decreases your karma by a point. Yah, it would affect me too, but that's irrelevant.
Related, submitting a new article by someone with negative karma not allowed- or maybe the article is assigned that same negative karma that it must overcome...
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#73I cannot see when someone has added a new comment to my question or link. Please color unread posts differently.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#74From an HCI standpoint this would be tricky, but it would be great to have a system for handling dupes and near-dupes by merging their comment pages. For instance, right now there are two articles about the recent demo of Metaweb/freebase. I commented on one of them, returned to the mainpage, and realized that the other (which also had no comments) was now higher ranked.
This raises a quandry as to whether I should cross-post, or just move on and hope that the discussion happens in the one I picked.
(Note, this is the harder case, of near-dupes: the two articles are different, but \begin{precog} most of the discussion will be about the product they reference.\end{precog} Hence it is semantically reasonable to merge their comment threads.)
So, as a oneliner: add a way to merge duplicate articles.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#75When displaying list of stories, it would make readability much easier if alternate rows were white. Current listing of stories requires too much mental engagement for me personally.
Alternate row coloring would increase page scability for story listings.
-Zaid
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#76I have no idea if this has already been brought up (considering I just skimmed over the responses in this discussion) but I'd like to see another tab on top that maybe is for questions that people are curious about. I see that people are posting in the news areas not links but a single question that they're looking for people to respond to and create debate. They're not necessarily news worthy contributions but important none the less in fueling conversations.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#77Couple of suggestions on urls
* clean urls (because they are cool) ~ http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
- ie: '/comments/363' instead of '/comments?id=363'
- '/user/bootload' instead of '/user?id=bootload'
* ability to view posts by date
- ie: '/2007/mar/12' or '/2007/03/12' (eg if I use YYYYMMDD format)
* inline urls such as 'http://foo.com/bar' interpreted as links
- ie: http://foo.com/bar becomes a clickable url
* long urls are automatically converted to tinyurls
- noticed twitter doing this automatically now
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#78Please, when visiting already-submitted-stories via the bookmarklet, DON'T consider that an upvote. I'm just using it to find the comment thread.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#79Local subdomains, or groups, a-la craigslist. E.g. toronto.ycombinator.com, or somesuch.
I understand YCombinator's rationale for having founders move to Boston, or the Valley.
That said, it might be great for you guys to get local footholds, where people can meet, organize, find co-founders, etc., before deciding to seek YC funding.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#80On 'self' posts, have the submitter's own comments always be listed first.