Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

#1

Post by ecyrb » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:20 PM UTC

Maybe an "unhide all" button in the event we hide something unintentionally?

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

#2

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:42 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

#3

Post by kes » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 4:25 PM UTC

I'm going to go out here on a limb, and vote no. It's not needed - that I can see - and would only serve to clutter.

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

#4

Post by tokenadult » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 4:41 PM UTC

It's a good thing that all the "Ask HN" threads (more generally, all the threads without external URL links) are now aggregated under the "ask" link at the top of most pages, as the feature request thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

linked to from the bottom of most pages seems to be missed by everyone these days.

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

#5

Post by pistoriusp » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 4:46 PM UTC

When you click read a story on HN it kind of "hides." At least it becomes less prominent than the other stories.

I often struggle trying to find links that I have read when there are a bunch of links that I haven't read.

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

#6

Post by dood » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 4:51 PM UTC

This would make the HN frontpage much more useful to me, and also make me see more new stories.

It is pretty frustrating to keep visiting the homepage and 1/3 of it is stuff I know I have no interest in.

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

#7

Post by CoryMathews » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 5:01 PM UTC

Hide would be great.

or even better a filter option.

Then I could say filter-remove:ipad

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

#8

Post by wingo » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 5:34 PM UTC

Would be an interesting data collection exercise, too.

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

#9

Post by Tichy » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 6:08 PM UTC

I'm pondering a Countdown Greasemonkey script, that would hide all articles I haven't clicked on within 5 minutes.

The problem is I keep coming back to procrastinate, and end up reading the irrelevant articles, too. Maybe auto-hiding them would help :-)

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

#10

Post by jolie » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 6:17 PM UTC

CoryMathews wrote: post #7

Hide would be great. or even better a filter option. Then I could say filter-remove:ipad

It'd be useful to filter certain things for one's attention, as well... for email/SMS/other alerts or simply as a different tab in HN.