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I suspect what kawera meant is if the submission form notified you that the URL is a dupe via ajax, so that then you wouldn't have to bother to copy and paste t

by gkop 11y ago

I suspect what kawera meant is if the submission form notified you that the URL is a dupe via ajax, so that then you wouldn't have to bother to copy and paste the title (which can be a pain on phones and tablets).

dang 11y ago
In that case I'm not sure I get it. Care to explain in more detail?
- gkop 11y ago
  A submission requires a title and URL. It would be nice if we could paste in the URL and see a green checkmark if the URL is not an invalid dupe or a red x if the URL is an invalid dupe. Then we don't have to copy and paste (and sometimes reformat) the title if the submission is an invalid dupe.
- kawera 11y ago
  I was referring to the new "past" functionality running automatically on the submit form, on focus change for example.
  - dang 11y ago
    Ok, I get it now. HN is extremely light on the Ajax, so it would be a major design change at that level. If we decide to take that step, implementing this feature would be reasonable. But we probably wouldn't do it for one feature.
- cbhl 11y ago
  While I can't speak for the OP, I had been on the site for well over a year before I realized that you could search through past HN submissions at all (even though the search box is at the bottom of basically every page). As far as I can tell, neither /submit nor the guidelines mention that you should do a search first before submitting. Then, once you assume you should do a search before you submit, the idea is that such a search could happen on the same page as submit, as soon as you finish pasting a URL, and before you hit submit. It's like when you go to a support site and type in a question, and it tries to give you answers by searching for other instances of that question (or by searching a knowledge base), before letting you make a new support ticket.
happyscrappy 11y ago
That's pretty minor, how about a mobile style sheet?

by gkop 11y ago

dang 11y ago

In that case I'm not sure I get it. Care to explain in more detail?

gkop 11y ago
A submission requires a title and URL. It would be nice if we could paste in the URL and see a green checkmark if the URL is not an invalid dupe or a red x if the URL is an invalid dupe. Then we don't have to copy and paste (and sometimes reformat) the title if the submission is an invalid dupe.
kawera 11y ago
I was referring to the new "past" functionality running automatically on the submit form, on focus change for example.
- dang 11y ago
  Ok, I get it now. HN is extremely light on the Ajax, so it would be a major design change at that level. If we decide to take that step, implementing this feature would be reasonable. But we probably wouldn't do it for one feature.
cbhl 11y ago
While I can't speak for the OP, I had been on the site for well over a year before I realized that you could search through past HN submissions at all (even though the search box is at the bottom of basically every page). As far as I can tell, neither /submit nor the guidelines mention that you should do a search first before submitting. Then, once you assume you should do a search before you submit, the idea is that such a search could happen on the same page as submit, as soon as you finish pasting a URL, and before you hit submit. It's like when you go to a support site and type in a question, and it tries to give you answers by searching for other instances of that question (or by searching a knowledge base), before letting you make a new support ticket.

happyscrappy 11y ago

That's pretty minor, how about a mobile style sheet?