What features would you welcome?

niyazpk 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

- Better formatting for text: (1) bullet points (2) markdown-like links (3) Slightly different background for code.

- More "sub-reddits". We already have Ask/Show HN. We probably can add a couple more to keep everything organized.

- Option to auto-collapse comments threads deeper than X levels by default. When they are all open by default like today, only the top comment and its children get more of the eyeballs.

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minouye an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It would be nice to flag who the OP is in the story comments. Provides helpful context, esp. if they posted their own project.

Here's one potential implementation:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-maker-badge/khod...

	▲	latchkey 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Implemented.

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riidom 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also "unread comment highlighting" would be so good to have.

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robin_reala 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s coming to stock HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670008

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latchkey 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That was actually kind of a pain to implement. Refined didn't do it fully, mine covers a lot more edge cases.

	▲	riidom 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Can imagine!

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latchkey 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

All the features I've added to this extension.

But if you want to pick one: Inline replies.

Right now, I have to do a ton of magic to make that happen in order to work around your auth flow. Namely, pulling the auth token out of the other page and then having to keep track of it in session storage.

I could delete a whole lot of code if that was just built in.

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dang 3 hours ago | parent [-]

By inline replies do you mean you click 'reply' and then a textbox opens in place?

The browser extension I wrote years ago, and which tomhow and I use for moderation, does this. I feel guilty about not having shared it a long time ago, but there just has never been time. Now that LLMs are starting to let me do things I've wanted to do for years, there's a chance I'll actually get to it before the sun dies.

	▲	latchkey 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. Here is the implementation I've got... note that I also added links to the rules/guidelines in an attempt to help with that issue too, heh. And yes... AI enables so many things. https://oj-hn.com/assets/inline-reply-light.png