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HN's mods need to be able to merge the comment sections of dupe articles.
by api 11y ago
HN's mods need to be able to merge the comment sections of dupe articles.
- vayeate 11y agoI am sort of surprised this website has so little functionality when it attracts some of the best programmers in the world by the thousands. I understand to some extent it's probably to prevent redditification, but mobile being entirely unreadable (and the "desktop view" on phones is broken now and does not help) is a bit much.
- ploxiln 11y agoYou must use Firefox on Android. I did as well. Apparently they're aware and working on a fix, but for now it works better in a webkit based browser on a phone. (Including Chrome on Android.)
- ericd 11y agoI actually view that lack of functionality mostly as a feature - there's very little bloat, and the website is very fast, even on terrible connections.
- DrScump 11y agoNot sure what you mean by "mobile being entirely unreadable". HN seems to have full functionality for me (on Android, using Opera or Dolphin with Desktop user agent).
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- DrScump 11y agoWell, sure, but that (and the broader dupe problem in general) is a bigger hairball of a problem than you seem to consider. If you have a simple, thorough, robust solution, I'm sure dang would love to hear about it. Meanwhile, if submitters would just bother to check that an obviously-suitable article hasn't already been submitted (the Search page with sort by date makes it easy to check by keyword), the problem would be stopped before it starts.
- manigandham 11y agoWhat's the big problem? They can already move thread's around... just move all the top level threads to the other page and there, it's merged.