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Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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#842Change the functionality so that "Unknown or expired link." would not appear any more.
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#843Accept Markdown in comments. I think it's really necessary to have a style in comments.
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#844Add a link/flag to help bringing erroneously hell-banned users back. At the very least, if automatically hell-banning people, kill their comments, but allow replying to them.
Case in point - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=slmt - nothing from what he said justifies a hellban.
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#845Allowing people to delete their comments when there are replies is annoying since it removes the context.
I think instead of deleting the post it should just remove the username and make upvotes/downvotes not impact the poster's karma. Or maybe just make the post sink to the bottom of the page and not allow voting on it.
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#846Please make discussion post text easier to read. Whenever I view one of these posts, the submission's body text is in a light grey font that's annoyingly difficult to read compared to comment text (which is black). It's almost as difficult to read as comments which have been severely downvoted, which signals that the submission itself is not worth reading.
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#847Please allow account deletion. All activity could remain on the site with username changed to 'deleted' or 'anon'. Alternatively allow users to change their username.
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#848Can we have a rss feed from search ? Something like https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=hacker&... .
If this feature exist, I can't find it.
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#849Hacker News should be available over IPv6 - it's pretty easy to set up (but looking at Softlayer's blog it looks like you may have to pay a couple of dollars a month for a subnet allocation, which is usually free. That information could be outdated though).
It's a small price to pay to be future proof though.
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#850People create throwaway accounts all the time. Allow people a limited number of posts per day to anonymize their screen name. I think you'll get much more candor on some topics. And with this you can better sort comments and stories since HN will still have access to karma and other signals. And perhaps on an anon post, we could see an anonymized version of their karma (what range their karma is in, say 0-49, 50-399, 400-999, 1000+). This might allow us to take someone's anon comment more seriously.