Strip spaces from the username on login, especially at the end. Signing in from iPhone, I got a few login errors before I realized that it wasn't a fat fingered password but a login username of "ivankirigin "
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
#702Please allow users to change their votes (as reddit does). "I downvoted you by mistake" is a very common comment.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#703Option to search recent posts with points (200 to 300/ 300 to 400)..
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#704HN discarded my comment to a submission I made. It seems commenting your submissions it's not possible anymore. Why? And then why the submission form makes you write a comment just to discard it?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#705I guess this is more of a bug report than a feature request, but it's related to several feature requests involving subdomains, so I figured I might as well post it here:
I noticed that the Kenyan TLD uses a similar approach to that of the UK where there is a controlled secondary domain (.co.ke) under which all commercial sites are kept. This is not visible on the front page. I noticed this on this item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460033
Expected outcome: show one level more for the Kenyan .*.ke domain space.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#706Besides replying, it would be nice to be able to send you a thank you note to users who accept them. Acknowledgements do not add to discussions, but humans are social, you know.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#707I'd like to be able to hide techpolitics. I don't care about piracy. I don't care about the latest torrentfreak.com gossip piece. I cared about SOPA, but not the gossip.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#708Please extend the submission form timeout. Would it crash the server if it was at least a few hours? Half a day, 12 hours?
I often leave HN tabs open, then start writing a sketch of a comment, then continue later, and notice the link has of course expired. This means going back, reloading the page, and re-pasting the comment. Irritating but bearable.
However, this doesn't work if my noprocrast period gets switched on while I'm reading other articles. I know noprocrast allows submissions, but it needs me to submit with the old link. And the link never gets too old.
I bump into "Unknown or expired link" almost every day.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#709It would be awesome if HN kept track of new comments on a post. While I can tell which articles I've read on HN because of the a:visited color, I can't tell which comments I've read.
As a solution, I'm imagining updating a timestamp each time I view an article I voted up (to limit the scope of this feature). Then, when I re-visit the comments for that article, any comments with timestamps more recent than my recorded one are emphasized in some way.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#710The way i always browse HN, is by clicking comments, and than the article, so that after finishing reading the article i can go back and view the comments.
it would be great if there was a link that would go to comments, and comments had a little script that would forward automatically to the story based on originating url, and some query string param.. it would just need to differentiate the page loads that happen after browser back button was hit (possibly originating url would be different)
it would also be great to turn this thing on for all links in settings page, but a separate link next to each story wold also work..