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Comment by davidu | Hacker News Reader

This is off-topic, but since PG reads this thread:

Please add back the "by " in front of each comment. It was useful because if I wanted to see all comments by PG on a page, I could Ctrl-F and just look for "by pg" but now I can't -- if I just search for "pg" I get people talking about you, rather than only comments by you.

A very small UI tweak probably to remove clutter, but it served a purpose, albeit a very small one. :-)

-David

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You know you can just use HNSearch and filter on a user, or use "http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mechanical_fish (that's pretty much how I read the site now).

I'm quite certain that David is talking about viewing somebody's comments within an individual thread.

The page that you're talking about will display all of the threads they've commented in at the same time.

They're close, but not quite the same thing.

indeed.

In proof of your point I was searching for comments by PG and instead found your request.

pg(space) works most of the time, since there're not many words that ends on "pg" and not a lot of users I suppose.

EDIT: Well.. unless it's an "Ask PG" :-)

His point is that he wants to find which posts are by PG, not other posts talking about PG. "PG<space>" would not improve the search results.

That will generally do the opposite of what I want.

In the meantime, I created a JavaScript bookmarklet that searches for, highlights, and cycles through comments that match a hn username regex query (default is /^pg$/) on the current page, if you're interested.

https://gist.github.com/1293929

You are not entirely off-topic in that "by" still shows for comments where you can see the number of points.

Which I think are only your own comments... at least for me, I only see the "by" for my own.

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