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

#761

Post by nopassrecover » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 2:22 PM UTC

1) Automatically resurface popular old articles after x days (or some other metric). This will hopefully stop reposts and tie in previous discussion.

2) Order the comments feed by "most recent active" (so Max(childDatePosted) DESC THEN BY Max(posted) DESC".

Happy to dig into the Arc if you'd like a hand.

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

#762

Post by zach » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 7:58 PM UTC

I just saw another rehash on the front page (which I don't mind much at current) which drew the inevitable responses:

Old member: This has been on here n times!

New member: But hey, as a new member, I appreciate it!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4189220

A way for new members in particular to see the "Catching Up With Hacker News" classic content they appreciate (on their front page, by default) seems like it could help mainstream them into the community.

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

#763

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 3:34 PM UTC

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

#764

Post by nkurz » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 7:38 PM UTC

Down-voting is awkward. Some feel it should be reserved for extraordinary circumstances, others that it's essential for every day curation of the site. Frequently, the person being downvoted does not know what they did wrong. But if all downvoters were to explain their reasons, far too much attention and page space would be spent on poor comments.

Proposal: The downvote arrow takes you to a "confirm" page with a "reason" text box. If you want to downvote you are encouraged (required?) to enter a reason before confirming your vote. This page also shows otherwise hidden comments by other people explaining their downvote.

Advantage: Allows downvoters to explain to the commenter why their comment is being downvoted without cluttering up the main discussion page. Ideally produces a better and more functional community.

Credit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4208938

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

#765

Post by andrethegiant » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 9:07 AM UTC

Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲ to make the upvote triangle look crisp on high-resolution displays.

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

#766

Post by drp » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 3:33 PM UTC

Some comment threads are getting very long. Collapse children would help keep these from hiding other worthy top level comments.

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

#767

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 1:36 AM UTC

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

#768

Post by boristhespider » Sun, Jul 22, 2012, 9:08 PM UTC

I find myself flapping between news.ycombinator.org and news.ycombinator.com (also .net), and cookies are not shared. Picking one and redirecting the others to it would be appreciated.

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

#769

Post by johnobrien1232 » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 4:51 PM UTC

I often open a new tab to read an article off the homepage. After I've read all the articles, then I'll click on "More", and receive a "Unknown or expired link." message.

It would be helpful if instead the More link simply gave me the next 31-60 ranked articles, even if they were duplicative with what I'd seen before.

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

#770

Post by possibilistic » Fri, Jul 27, 2012, 7:37 AM UTC

Hey pg et al., could you embed the post date and time as a timestamp in the HTML source? (Perhaps using data attributes?) It would be great for HN parsers/readers. Personally, I'd like to scrape a few comments and cache them in a feed. As of right now I have to use the cheap heuristic of parsing "X days ago", and I assume this could be +/- 23 hours in error.

Thanks!