FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

It works great and looks very useful, but there is one thing that you might want to change. Your example is "Startups, Google, Apple" but when you enter this string it actually adds "Startups,", "Google,", and "Apple". It would be more intuitive if you break the entry up into separate tags removing ", " or "," instead of just " ".

Edit: You might also consider clearing the text box after adding a tag. It felt a bit awkward having to hit ctrl-a before typing each time I wanted to enter something new.

Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

#7

Post by ColinWright » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 12:54 PM UTC

Doesn't work for me, but probably because the machine I usually use to access HN is running Firefox 1.5 on SuSE 10.1. One of the things I love about HN is that it runs prefectly on such an old browser/OS combination.

EDIT: Wow, a downvote despite providing concrete feedback to the submitter? Interesting. I might have to re-think my entire position about the HN "community" as expressed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660578

Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

#8

Post by BasDirks » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 1:12 PM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #7

Doesn't work for me, but probably because the machine I usually use to access HN is running Firefox 1.5 on SuSE 10.1. One of the things I love about HN is that it runs prefectly on such an old browser/OS combination. EDIT: Wow, a downvote despite providing concrete feedback to the submitter? Interesting. I might have to re-think my entire position about the HN "community" as expressed here: http://news.ycombinator.co…

Don't be butthurt over one downvoter. Here, I upvoted you.

Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

#9

Post by cyanbane » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 1:14 PM UTC

This is great, future enhancements I would love to see:

Subject filter (filter Ask HN)

User criteria - 'always on' or 'always filter' by user (always show from rmontanaro/never show from cyanbane)

show/filter x levels of comments (ie show 'bitcoin' unless there are 4+ levels of comments at some point)

Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

#10

Post by Simon_M » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 1:16 PM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #7

Doesn't work for me, but probably because the machine I usually use to access HN is running Firefox 1.5 on SuSE 10.1. One of the things I love about HN is that it runs prefectly on such an old browser/OS combination. EDIT: Wow, a downvote despite providing concrete feedback to the submitter? Interesting. I might have to re-think my entire position about the HN "community" as expressed here: http://news.ycombinator.co…

Out of interest, why the old browser/OS combo?