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@dang, an idea for GitHub URLs: could the URL truncator keep two path components instead of just one? The second part is the project name and often the more recognisable and interesting component.

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Not sure the @ symbol does any sort of tagging or notification. You may have better luck by emailing the suggestion to hn@ycombinator.com.

> Not sure the @ symbol does any sort of tagging or notification.

Unless I've read a lie repeated a million times, it doesn't.

Thanks, but I think the level of effort I’ll put into distracting these good people with my feature request is going to be proportionate to how useful I think my request will be. (“Not much” and “not very”, respectively.)

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