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HN1: 1-day timeconstant
HN7: 7-day timeconstant
HN30: 30-day timeconstant
HN365: 1 year timeconstant
HN is interesting on multiple scales, and things of intellectual value, especially things that take more than 20 minutes to ponder, are getting lost to the cruelty of exponential suppression.
Thanks for HN. It's useful, fun, and addictive.
A first-level reply notification is what I have in mind, i.e. don't notify me if someone replies to someone who replied to me...
1) I'd like to be able to actually see the URLs of "dead" submissions; sometimes they're awesome and have been autokilled due to sites being blacklisted, which I don't support
2) I'd prefer if "showdead" weren't so hard to read. It's just the wrong color on Chrome to be readable when deselected AND even worse when selected. I'm fine with it being hard to read when deselected, though.
3) Maybe allow people with karma > certain amount to turn off the low contrast color, too. I realize I can do this in the browser but it's a pain on mobile browsers. I like high-contrast.
Back button, copy selection, retry ... but oops, entire selection was not copied, so now the half page of text is gone for good.
Thanks for wasting my time with a years old bug. There is no reason that new story submission page needs to expire. I should be able to start typing in that textarea, walk away from my computer for a week, and then come back, finish, and submit. No state is necessary.
( For a visual example, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/09/msg01682.html )