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Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018) by dang on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:23PM (#22992609)
Your comment got 5 upvotes and 8 downvotes so far. The maximum score it reached was 2. It might seem odd how 2 turned into 20 in your mind, but actually it's not unusual at all. Perceptions of other people are routinely off by an order of magnitude on HN (and, I assume, elsewhere on the internet). That's the main reason why moderating a forum like this is so hard.

Posting like this breaks the site guidelines. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018) by kevindeasis on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:25PM (#22992619)
fair enough, i see, left side points, right side comments
Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018) by dang on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:30PM (#22992633)
What do you mean by "right side comments"? I wonder if there's something in HN's UI that is misleading. (Or perhaps you're using a third party extension of some sort?)
Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018) by kevindeasis on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:37PM (#22992670)
sorry, this is what i meant, which i never realized since 2015

left side of my name has a number

far right side of my name has a number

left side of my name is the points of my comment

right side of my name is the comments beneath my comment

I never realized that

also thanks for pointing out the rules of the forum, sometimes people forget

and thanks for modding hn

the bug that i find surprising is when i type a text, i need to make two breaklines to show one breakline

Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018) by dang on Monday April 27, 2020 @12:25AM (#22992879)
> right side of my name is the comments beneath my comment

Do you mean the number like [+11] that shows up after you've collapsed a subthread? If you click it, do the comments beneath your comment reappear and the number goes away?

Edit: I'm pretty sure that is the confusion, because it's the second time in a few weeks that this has come up. I've changed the "collapsed" indicator to say "[5 more]" instead of "[+5]". Hopefully that will solve the problem. The strange thing is that it took almost 4 years to hear about this.

Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018) by kevindeasis on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:41PM (#23000435)
Right that was the confusing part

Wow, great job of getting that shipped real fast, It's really obvious now

Maybe other people already experienced this issue in the past but didn't really know who to report it to, or wasn't big enough of an issue

Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018) by dang on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:54PM (#23000567)
> Wow, great job of getting that shipped real fast, It's really obvious now

I love it when you can take years to fix something and someone will still say that anyway :)

(The same thing happens in the HN inbox. "Wow, thanks for the fast reply"...if they only knew.)

Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018) by kevindeasis on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:28AM (#23015365)
lmao well out of curiosity why have you folks never open sourced hn?

even if its just the fronend?

wouldn't it help if your community of hackers decided to contribute? it seems like a good majority of people are willing to work on it

im assuming that since a lot of people are playing with the hn api