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asaph

When is the Hacker News site redesign coming?

Things I'd like to see here:

- TLRD; article summary for each post

- markdown support

- image support

- user profile page enhancements: avatars, pretty URLs, more links to user's other sites/profiles, etc.

- user karma listed next to username in comments

- social logins (1 less password to manage)

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    - TLRD; article summary for each post

Who is going to write this?

    - markdown support

Yes this would be nice as the current [0] approach is limiting

    - image support

Please no, if I want to see the image I can click your link (or use a browser plugin to show it to me on hover)

    - user profile page enhancements: avatars, pretty URLs, more links to user's other sites/profiles, etc.

Avatars no, but there rest is fine

    - user karma listed next to username in comments

One of the nice things on HN is username/karma is not in your face, you read the comment BEFORE making a pre-judgement on the user, I quite like this. I like that I don't often notice a username like "tptacek" before I read the post so that I form my own opinion before agreeing (or disagreeing if the case may be) before I've read the comment. Also you can get Chrome plugins to show this for you, I have one that shows me on hover (along with the links in their profile and the ability to follow them [1])

    - social logins (1 less password to manage)

Ehh, I think they used to allow for openid. Personally nowadays I prefer 1 username/password per site and let 1Password sort it all out for me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...

I actually don't want any of those things, not even markdown support.

The site IMO does what it needs to very well and I value the minimalism a lot. Would hate to see it cluttered with extra chrome, images, karma, summaries. And instead of social login try using a password manager.

Please tell me you meant to add an /s to this

it's obviously satire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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