The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points

Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by tptacek on Sunday December 12, 2010 @08:13PM (#1998763)

I like the UI. I know it's hard for some to believe, but it's stark and functional and fast and mostly stays out of the way; it works. The comment scores need to be hidden for comments you didn't write; other than that, what's to improve? Taking back votes? How about, just forget about the vote.

If HN has a problem with titles, it's with not enough stores having their titles rewritten to the article original.

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by dionidium on Sunday December 12, 2010 @10:51PM (#1999226)

The comment scores need to be hidden for comments you didn't write

People keep saying this, but it would severely limit the utility of the site. When I chance upon a post with more than ~50 comments, I only want to read the 6-7 or so that the community has agreed are best. I perceive a positive correlation between comment scores and quality. That is, the odds that a post with 50 points contains good content do empirically seem to be higher than for posts with 2 points.

In short: I need a comment filter that is more strict than than simply "appears on Hacker News". I don't want to read every single one.

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by tptacek on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:45AM (#1999491)

Comments are sorted based in part on votes. That's fine. The system we have now isn't picking out the best comments; it's picking out my comments.

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by alexophile on Monday December 13, 2010 @11:18AM (#2000899)

I like using votes to determine whether or not it's worth devling into a deep thread. If there's a conversation that goes 5 levels deep, you can just scan the bottom layers - if they're getting votes, then it's likely to be a worthwhile conversation.

Similarly, if there's a bunch of responses with a score of 1 with replies forking off all over the place, having a visible score lets you catch that at-a-glance and avoid bothering with a conversation that is clearly digressing.

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by gjm11 on Monday December 13, 2010 @04:41AM (#1999948)

There's a difference?

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by roadnottaken on Sunday December 12, 2010 @09:13PM (#1998938)

I agree. I love the spartan UI. That said, reading HN sucks on mobile and this would only take a few minutes to fix without compromising the simplicity of the main UX.

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by eande on Sunday December 12, 2010 @09:47PM (#1999042)

ihackernews.com is most helpful for me on the mobile platform

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by rms on Monday December 13, 2010 @06:38AM (#2000118)

>The comment scores need to be hidden for comments you didn't write

That was in the REPL for a while and I thought it was just annoying and confusing.

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by nextparadigms on Sunday December 12, 2010 @09:53PM (#1999062)

How it looks is fine, I suppose. But it could surely use in-line replies.

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