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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by sharpshoot on Thursday February 22, 2007 @06:45AM (#481)
This is more a content issue but to really build the community is have more fully fledged profiles - with location, bio - make it one or two lines max and a website or blog link. If we are what we think/read then it would be a great starting point in finding cofounders or people who are on the same wavelength. I would also agree on seeing the latest comments - and maybe highlighting posts which you've commented on/ or submitted showing if there were new comments that you haven't read. So show "7 comments | 3 new" so it would be easy to come back to your home page and see how the discussion has evolved.
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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by davidw on Thursday February 22, 2007 @02:21PM (#520)
Yes! That's something I don't like about reddit - I spend my time giving them free content, and I don't even get a link back to my own web site:-/
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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by notabel on Friday March 09, 2007 @08:34PM (#3361)
More important, I think, than displaying the number of new comments is making it possible to /find/ them. The reordering of comments is usually a great thing, but in a relatively involved discussion, it can become quite a chore to find that new comment.

I'm not sure what the best way to implement it would be, from either an algorithmic or HCI standpoint, but it certainly would be nice if you could come up with a way to make new comments stand out in threads. (Preferably with new defined by when the user last viewed the page, rather than being a static global definition.)

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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by pg on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:10PM (#2628)
Ok, we have profiles: click on your name and put whatever you want in the "about" field.
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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by sharpshoot on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @07:41AM (#2707)
nice one! Really like the incremental site updates
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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by jwecker on Saturday February 24, 2007 @10:50PM (#964)
I find myself marking up comments of the same 2 or 3 users more often than others. They don't have ultra-high karma or anything- they just are interested in the same articles and discussions I am. It would be nice to learn more about them.
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