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

#931

Post by malandrew » Thu, Jan 23, 2014, 6:36 PM UTC

double post prevention.

Today I ended up with something getting double posted and this struck me as odd since it was always such a basic feature on many other community services such as forums. In the past I also recall being shadow-banned temporarily for a double post.

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

#932

Post by kwhitefoot » Sat, Jan 25, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

Increased contrast. light grey text on a grey background is tiring and irritating to read.

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

#933

Post by sidcool » Wed, Jan 29, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC

When a reply is given to my post, something tells me so.

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

#934

Post by golem_de » Wed, Jan 29, 2014, 12:34 PM UTC

"Unknown or expired link."

This is somewhat annoying. If you have a page with 5 or more interesting links and then after some minutes want to continue, it breaks the xp on ycombinator entirely. I usually leave the page. Why in any hell don't you even just link to the start (or include the header bar)?

I bet it's because of caching the query, to avoid post sliding over page indexes after time, or whatever you thought with that non-session and non-user token. But. It. Is. Somewhat annoying, to cut the ?x=whatever just to return to news.ycombinator.com.

Use a timestamp to refresh the query or go back to use old school bad page indexes, but please fix something, at least the error message. Please!

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

#935

Post by jrs235 » Wed, Jan 29, 2014, 6:25 PM UTC

It appears "people" are submitting the same link but with a different value after a hash (#) at the end of the url and the system doesn't recognize it's already been submitted. I've seen half a dozen "How I lost my $50,000 twitter username" submissions to thenextweb.com in the last 12 hours.

Can we improve how this functions to prevent so many duplicates?

Perhaps a ban on links to thenextweb.com??? I see before all these submissions one (that gained traction with HN comments) was to medium.com https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/01/29/lost-50000-twit...

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

#936

Post by blueblob » Sun, Feb 02, 2014, 5:46 PM UTC

I would like a "favorites" or "saved links" page. The front page changes rapidly enough that if you don't bookmark pages that you want, a few hours later they can be hard to find if you don't remember the exact title to use with search.

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

#937

Post by lixon » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 4:31 PM UTC

http://codepen.io/lixonic/full/LwnKH

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

#938

Post by yoha » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 11:09 PM UTC

Sorting poll results would increase readability. It should be done after vote (or by clicking on some button) to avoid biasing the results.

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

#939

Post by highCs » Tue, Feb 11, 2014, 11:39 PM UTC

I would like the links to open on a blank tab by default.

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

#940

Post by adamzerner » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 11:23 PM UTC

Unread replies to your comments. Like how the message thing on reddit is red when you have unread comments. It's too annoying to click "threads" on the navbar, and look through old threads to see if there were any new comments.