"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

What we didn't add in the guideline is that they also often get upvoted to near-top of the thread, which chokes out interesting discussion. More of the problem is caused by the upvotes than by the comment itself, but it's harder to do anything about the upvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

While you're at it, remember <A> tags are a thing and let me open things in a new tab again.

Are there any spesific elements on the site you are thinking about?

This wasn't to you specifically. It's a common complaint I have that buttons that take me somewhere and act like links should be links.

+1 it’s a deal-breaker

I'll fix this, thanks for pointing it out :D