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

Please add a html attribute to the submitted links so the articles displayed in HN open an actual new tab instead of going back and forth between just one page!

I am having a problem where a story has hundreds of comments. I click 'more' once to go to the second page but by the time I've reached the bottom the 'more' link takes me to an expired page and the only way to reach the page I wanted is to go back to the first page, reload it and then click 'more' on each page quickly until I get to the comment page I wanted to be on.

Is this fixable?

Bug: Posting a trailing slash on an URL gives /.

Remove the trailing slash and the link works.

Not sure when this started happening.

Hi, it's not so much a feature request than a bug report (sorry if it's not the right place). Since a few days ago the comments link in the RSS feed is wrong, it contains extra spaces. Example:

https:/%20%20%20%20/%20%20%20%20news.ycombinator.com/%20%20%20%20item?id=5859307

As a result clicking in a link in a RSS reader will fail to open the page in a web browser.

The story link is fine thought.

This is while using the feed: http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

I can't pin down the exact date when it started, less than a week ago for sure, possibly this WE?

pg, I humbly submit that it's time to make a "subreddit" of sorts for politico-technical discussions, and moderate what is submitted to it. I know this might sound distasteful, and I'm not suggesting we go down the slippery slope of becoming like reddit, but I think the events of the past week have shown that it's necessary for change.

I'm not a particularly old member here by any means, but it's become very obvious that this community is too large for the current constraints on it. Minor changes, like implementing a separate area for political discussions would act as a sort of "release valve" without sucking up precious real estate on the front page.

My reasoning is as follows: there's no stopping wave stories like the NSA scandal from being submitted to Hacker News, people are too invested in hearing about it. Besides, there's some justification for it, being that it has a technical basis despite being political.

Moreover, it would lessen the impact to the front page for polito-technical debate to have its own "arena" of sorts. I would also motion for these to have separate karma/upvote/"staying power" treatment, similar to Ask HN: threads.