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Ask HN: What features do you think Hacker News is missing?

3 pointsashitvora5 comments

I like Hacker News a lot. I almost spend 1-2 hrs daily but sometimes I feel it is missing something. For example, I wanted to search for something but there is no search option.

Without these also people will come here but may be these features will make life little more easier.

What you guys say?

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Blockquote. There are many times I would like to do a blockquote and have to either "quote" the quote, italicize the quote, or use

  preformatted quotes.

Each of the alternatives has drawbacks.

I would humbly request pg to add the email convention "> " at the beginning of a line to format as a block quote.

> This would be a block quote. It goes on as long as the paragraph goes on. Note that each line does not start with "> " - that would be unnecessary since that is already done with the preformatted syntax.

This would no longer be block quoted.

Quoting is also my top request. I find it strange that using > as blockquote would have been removed - What markdown interpreter does HN use?

The lisp one. :-P Seriously, HN has its own very limited markup syntax and blockquote has never been in it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

> HN has its own very limited markup syntax

Just what we need, another subset of Markdown :(

Have you looked at the list of links at the bottom of every page?

Particularly "Search", "Feature Requests", and to some extent "Guidelines" and "FAQ"?

Meanwhile, here's a shortcut: http://searchyc.com/

Certain feature requests are a perennial feature of life on HN. You are carrying on a classic tradition.

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