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HN Idea: View of just Review requests

36 pointstrickjarrett16 comments

I'm not saying to remove the Requests for reviews from the main body, but I admit I like looking at these apps and would like an easier way to find them. Just like we have a jobs page, is there enough interest to convince PG that we might get a 'Reviews' page?

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Similarly, I had the idea a while ago to make a separate page for submissions that take over 1000 seconds (16.6 min) to appreciate. It sucks when someone submits a documentary and by the time the first few people have finished watching it and are ready to vote it up it's already off the front page. Same goes for the 10+ page articles in the NYT Mag on Sunday, video lectures, short stories, book talks, podcasts, etc.

I find http://givemesomethingtoread.com/ good for finding long form content. It's become my preferred source for tasty brain food over HN.

How about just adding tagging to HN and then RSS feeds by tag?

Here, I just whipped this up...

http://www.ycfeeds.com/feed/submission-title-contains?term=r...

A better version...

http://www.ycfeeds.com/feed/ask-submission-title-contains?te...

yup! that would be useful. This way I can track topics by tags. Thought of this a couple of days back and also that someone would have already made such a feature request.

Here's your view: http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:news.ycombinator+intitl...

I agree. I think the review posts are really useful - both for the people who created, and those reviewing.

It would be a shame if any are getting passed by, and would be useful to see the reviews on their own.

This actually helps a lot.

There's a time when people read HN and a time when people use the bookmarklet to post(varies from person-to-person depending on the timezone). So people posting via the bookmarklet wouldn't have taken a look at the interesting threads. So when this happens, all the other people's interesting threads would be gone.

People in different time zones have a problem. Yes time-zones do matter.

I reside in a time-zone totally opposite to that of SF or USA. I've noticed that when I post threads in 'my' morning, it rarely gets response. And when I post threads in 'my' evening/night, then there's response. Threads posted(by everyone) during 'my' morning are often pushed down by others new threads. I've also noticed that these new threads are being responded to during 'my' night. So those which are responded to are those which are posted recently.

So the most interesting part - the review threads are missed sometimes. So its better to have a separate section for it.

P.S: I might sound vague but I couldn't explain better.

This would be extremely useful. PG, please add it.

Yep, main reason I come here. Please give me an RSS feed for this alone.

Though tags and categorization are nice to have, I like the idea of getting a well rounded experience at HN. Forcing visitors to just reading the titles exposes them to all sorts of things they wouldn't have been exposed to otherwise.

I could see myself using categories or tags if they are available, but that doesn't mean it would be a better experience.

Tagging has come up many times before as a suggestion for improving the user experience. I think your reasoning is one reason it hasn't come yet. One of the things about YC is that it pushes a broad spectrum of fairly low noise links across to the reader.

Maybe removing them from the main section would be just the thing to do, actually. I almost always ignore the requests for reviews, simply due to lack of time, but would appreciate getting to peruse them all in one place for anything I find particularly interesting.

I think it'd be awesome if there were some additional categories here. I wish Jobs was open to everyone (and allowed comments) and Reviews was a section.

You are absolutely right. I frequently find my self doing a Google search for it.

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