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

#861

Post by dredmorbius »

Mobile / Desktop UI / markup enhancements.

The biggest problem is the voting arrows, which are far too easy to hit accidentally, and up/down votes cannot be changed.

Allowing changing of votes for a brief time (1-5 minutes) would be useful.

Improving display contrast -- setting a darker border and lighter main body area, would be vastly appreciated. Contrast isn't too bad, but can suffer under adverse lighting conditions.

A mobile-specific presentation would avoid resizing / sideways scrolling.

> Please provide a quoting markup. Existing workarounds of either prefixing with a greater-than sign

    Or indenting text to present a
Are awkward.

* Bullets would also be useful # As would numbers. And proper line breaking.

A collapsed view of comments (available through a Chrome plug-in) is another nice-to-have.

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

#862

Post by staunch »

A "launch" tab at the top, where we can publicly launch projects without having them compete with popular articles.

The same way the "ask" tab works. It would help make sure the community easily sees every new project.

I see interesting projects fall off new really quickly pretty often. Launching projects is such an integral part of the community, it makes sense to make the site work better for it.

Base it on "HN Launch" in title or something?

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

#866

Post by DanBC »

Some people love to provide grammar / spelling / etc fixes.

These comments are usually useful and helpful, but not interesting.

HN has "Showdead". Could HN have "ShowMinor", with a user selectable "this is a minor post" checkbox?

"I enjoyed this post! Here's a few things I spotted: you use your instead of you're, and you use it's instead of its" [X]MINOR

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

#869

Post by cdvonstinkpot »

I think it would be interesting to have a page that detailed a list of which websites were supplying the stories that have been currently submitted to HN. Like a top 100 base URLs of stories that made it to HN.

So I can keep track of the most popular news sources for the demographic of HN readers. & Keep up on these same sources myself.

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

#870

Post by sdrdis »

I noticed that some blogs create a post, submit the link on HN, then add a link at the end of the post toward their submission on HN for comments.

Something great (and simple) would be to create an API for that. The first useful feature would be to get a listing of comments for a given post. The second one (a little more complex) would be to allow HN user to comment via the API. A simple listing for the moment would be great.

This way there could be a similar plugin to Disqus for instance but for HN. It could help some post get interesting comments.

Thanks,

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