Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have? |
Ask HN: What feature would you want HN to have? |
However, one of the best "features" of HN is its relative lack of features.
- 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)
Just right now: "The Forgotten Lens" became "The Lens".
Some time ago, someone posted "How I Choose What to Read" (an essay on how he selects books) which became "I Choose What to Read" (must be an angry rant about main stream media shoving fake news into his face).
Unfortunately, the mods have already clarified that this "feature" is here to stay.
I’ll often have read ten deep into a long thread and have reached my fill of the discussion but it’s a but cumbersome to scroll back and find the parent to collapse the thread. I want to just bail out.
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.
https://hnrss.org/replies?id=devwastaken (replies to any of your comments)
https://hnrss.org/replies?id=19599229 (replies to a particular comment ID)
- the font is too small. It's impossible to read on a mobile or tablet. Body font is set to 10pt; comments to 9pt. Just use the browser default size (1em ~= 16px)
- the markup is really bloated for what it does. The nested tables are unnecessary.
Bookmarklet to fix the font size on mobile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19468463
Automatic highlighting of not-yet-seen comments.
I think this is more a UX problem, where sites like Stack Overflow use downvotes to indicate that they disagree with the answer.
Maybe instead of a downvote button it should be a flag or -_- emoji. (edit: apparently HN removes emojis)
It would probably need some anti-abuse mechanism, to prevent someone from just marking every single user.