Can we split the ^ button into an upvote and save button? The stories I want to save and upvote are not necessarily the same, and if I want to use ^ to save stories, there's a disincentive to upvote them.
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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#732Request: RSS feed to return "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" HTTP header set to * to enable all sources, for both GET and OPTIONS requests.
Details: To read HN more conveniently both on desktops and on iPad I would like to have fewer headings per page, have them in larger font etc, I am writing my own, magazine like (or Flipboard like) HTML viewer. I don't want the data from HN to travel via my server, fetching it directly from the browser.
However fetching RSS from the client side, at least on Chrome, and going forward on any modern browser, would require obtaining permission from the Cross Domain site. Currently RSS returns none. Chrome reports error, will not allow JavaScript code to process. For the development purposes I fake it via proxy (Fiddler2) but once coded it would either require RSS returning the right header, or me channeling this request via my server (Google App Engine)
Since the point of having RSS is to publish it to other services, I presume you would not object to such use of your data. If you do, please let me know and I'll stop.
I plant to make HTML/JS/CSS open sourced once it is done.
Contact: Michael Kariv michael_kariv@yahoo.com
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#733Can we have some proper HTML and CSS rather than tables in tables in tables indented by GIFs?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#734How about not permanently hellbanning new users? Or at least allowing us to upvote their [dead] posts to get them back over whatever threshold bans them?
Latest one that I've seen is this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dailyllama , but I see lots of cases all the time, such as this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3755037 (who wasn't very happy about being hellbanned).
None of these people are trolls -- one of their posts must have been downvoted early on, and they've tripped some sort of automatic mechanism. Perhaps you shouldn't hellban people like this unless one (or more?) of their posts has been explicitly flagged (rather than just downvoted)?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#735Improve layout and font sizes for mobile experience. Currently it's pretty rough, barely usable from iPhone or android phone.
Or tell me how to send a pull request...
Thanks :)
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#736I'd like to see an RSS feed that points first to the ycombinator comments, and second to the original targeted link.
From a comment thread, it is of course simple to get to the original link, but not the other way around.
With an inverse RSS feed, it will be much easier in Google Reader to share both the comment thread and the original link with Google+, or any of the services that support Google Reader Send To.
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#737Archived posts? Just as there is a news.ycombinator.com/newest, couldn't there be a /oldest? or something along those lines. This website is just a goldmine of information, it seems like it all kinda disappears into black whole
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#738Please add a meta description. The snippets on Google and Bing aren't very good
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#739Increase the number of saved stories one can save. For some reason I can only save 75 stories on this account, all of the ones I have saved for the last month or so never got recognized on my account.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#740A bear hug-button for everyone. Getting hugged is sometimes very important.