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Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
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Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#2Probably just web push notifications for when users directly reply to your comment.
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#3Probably just web push notifications for when users directly reply to your comment.
This. Or just some way to keep track of a conversation without constantly refreshing
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#4Proper Markdown support for inline elements such as bold, _italic_, [link]() and `code` (and maybe ```fenced code blocks```). While having full GitHub Flavored Markdown would be nice, I think image, headers and tables and other block elements should stay turned off, because they disrupt the flow of the text
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#5Hashtags / labels som that the content becomes curated.
Only sorting by upvotes / comments is too 1 dimensional for me, and it does not favours to the future readers of the site, nor to the goldmine content posted here.
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#6A kill file.
Automatic highlighting of not-yet-seen comments.
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#7Possibly a separate tab for non-IT stuff, especially controversial ones.
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#8- Exchanging the position of the vote and the collapse buttons or just moving the collapse button the the leftmost spot.
- Also a way to filter out (to make invisible) comments based on when the comment matches a regex (or at least a direct string match)
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#9History of recently viewed posts like Reddit, things can disappear from the front page fast.
Re: Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have?
#10Comment threads collapsed by default, so that initially only the top-level comments are visible. Then I could drill down into threads only if I am interested in continuing.
However, one of the best "features" of HN is its relative lack of features.