I'd like a "follow" feature, so I can see what certain people (like you) are doing. Implemented like a personal newsfeed. Just now occurs to me that RSS feeds for HN profiles would be cool.
Last time I checked, your reddit experiment was too much work to upkeep. You were also trying one of the newer hosters, "morpheus"?, but I didn't grok their UX.
A bit late but this aggravates me. I dont mind being unable to down vote in the least, in fact I think if downvoting had a timer it may help people cool down.
But for replies, I feel as though refreshing a page to see if anyone has replied to me, just feels narcissistic. As such I rarely if ever get to reply to something, since I almost never re-read comments on an article, much less my own for the infinitesimally small chance of a reply.
I think an option to have notifications to direct replies (not nested, but could be an option as well), would be pretty cool, as I've spoken before here about the drive-by commenting HN seems to cultivate (but I mean it works, right?).
I dearly miss the offline mail readers from the dial up BBS days. TLDR: most of the features (eg whitelists, blacklists, fetch behavior), were client side. I have a deep hunch that moving all these features to server side, aka social networks, contributed to our current mess.
The recent rehash (front paged) about newsgroups (NNTP protocol) made me wish I had more gumption and just did something about it.
I'd like a "follow" feature, so I can see what certain people (like you) are doing. Implemented like a personal newsfeed. Just now occurs to me that RSS feeds for HN profiles would be cool.
Last time I checked, your reddit experiment was too much work to upkeep. You were also trying one of the newer hosters, "morpheus"?, but I didn't grok their UX.