When HN generates a "Unknown or expired link" it would be nice to have a "Click here to return to homepage" link.
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#902Leave the upvote and downvote arrows accessible when a vote has been cast. Nothing more frustrating than checking HN on mobile, then executing the opposite of your intended vote action by accident.
Also good for those mea culpa moments when one realises a comment has been misunderstood.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#903People often complain about mods changing the titles of stories.
The changes are as far as I can tell, always good.
It might alleviate some complaints if comments added before a title change, have the original title when the comment was made attached to the comment in some way.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#904I would like the FAQ and search moved to the top navigation bar. I did not know that there was a search and FAQ for a while and only found the FAQ through google before finding the bottom navigation. The top navigation makes you think that there is only that navigation.
Also, the document formatting is a little inaccessible. The submit page should have either a link to the document formatting, or just verbatim contain the document formatting page content. This probably won't help people who have been on HN for a while, but it would definitely be useful to me.
The top navigation is also a little confusing at first; I would expect that "comments" would show only my comments. I did not have an expectation of what "threads" would show.
EDIT: Forgot to put that an explanation of some of the more strange behaviors in FAQ would be nice. For instance sometimes there is a reply button to comments and sometimes there isn't.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#905I frequently see users who don't realize that the email field on their profile page is not visible (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6593160) and that they have to put it in the "about" section. There should be a text warning next to the email field saying that it will not be visible to other users (or a checkbox to make it visible).
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Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#907There's a "more" link at the bottom of each page. It stops working after the page sits for a few minutes.
If this is fixed, I will sigh one less time each day.
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#908I'd like to see all pages default to a list of 100 items.
I mean it is pure text page that is gzip'ed and should barely add 1k more to make it 100 instead of 30.
If not 100, then 50 as a compromise?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#909If you detect an antagonistic or uncivil comment or commenter (an exercise to the reader), add an interstitial that displays the "In Comments" section of the guidelines with the editable comment before they are finally allowed to submit the comment.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#910Add "tabindex=1" to the title-link found in every /item pages. Now pressing tab on the comments page selects the link at the top, press enter to follow it.