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Ask dang: Can we have the best comments of the day/week/month?
Currently the best comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments) only show the best comments in a certain period of times (two weeks?). Could we have the best comments of some specified period of time (as I said in the title, I think it would be fine to have best comments of the day, of the week or of the month).
I would even volunteer to implement that small feature if you think it's a good idea but nobody at YC has time to do it.
- chmaynard 11y agoDaniel’s email address: hn@ycombinator.com
- chmaynard 11y agoI often email Dan with suggestions for new features, and he always replies promptly and gives me a thoughtful response. In most cases, he explains why my idea isn’t needed or won’t work (just kidding).
- S4M 11y agoYes I can email him but I thought it would be better to ask there so other people could discuss that suggestion. Now I don't need that feature since I can implement it myself thanks to brudgers' indication, and since nobody else seems to be interested in it, there's no reason to add it on the HN server.
- brudgers 11y agoYC's The Macro has highlights and a way to submit. http://www.themacro.com/ http://www.themacro.com/ The search API probably allows hacking up exactly what you want. https://hn.algolia.com/api https://hn.algolia.com/api
- S4M 11y agoIndeed, I can get the points of the comments through the API, and then I can pick only the best comments in a certain time frame. I'm surprised that one can have access to the score of the comments through the API while they are hidden when reading normally on the browser. That suggests a new way of checking HN...