Hacker News Reader

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, sorry- the issues are crawled based on a preconfigured list of beginner-friendly tags (see https://github.com/MattAlp/IssueHaven/blob/master/config.py#...).

They're currently sorted based on repository popularity (in stars), issue age, and total comments (I'm working on implementing a better ranking system).

How would you propose that I gauge difficulty/effort across board for the aggregated issues?

View on HN

I didn't realize the issues presented are already the 'easier' ones... unless I am misinterpreting your website again?

For example:

1. https://github.com/coala/coala/issues/5674

On the right hand side it has the label difficulty low, importance high

2. https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/4377

has the label good first issue

So labels are not consistent in each of the repositories. And it would be sort of difficult to display a label on each of the issues on your website. But maybe you could display and use the labels the repository is using for your own website (maybe with a toggle). By copying the labels you might not have to gauge difficulty?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com