Is Hacker News feature locked?
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I get the feeling that the people who code it make good product decision such as: is the investment in engineering resource worth the payoff?
If traffic trends are any indication people are perfectly happy with HN just the way it is.
If traffic trends are any indication people are perfectly happy with HN just the way it is.
Traffic is a poor indication of user happiness. I will view HN regardless if these features happen, but I won't be as happy.
- Use AJAX to update the homepage and comments in real-time, while highlighting articles and comments that are new. This could be a toggle.
- Allow marking articles as read without clicking on them. (imitating :visited)
- Auto-notify when someone replies to your submission or comment.
- Perhaps a way to follow a user and receive updates to their submissions and comments.
- Allow collapsing comment trees.
I'm not suggesting to transform HN into a full-blown social site. These features could be implemented with minimal presentation. (an icon here and there)
I get the feeling HN is feature locked and they just defer improvements to 3rd party apps.