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Show HN: HNfavorites – Explore the community's favorite content
- midgetjones 9y agoCool project! I'd take issue with the claim that "the feature has had a good amount of adoption", though. The top result only has 41 favourites despite ~800 points.
- modo_ 9y agoThanks man! Yeah that's a fair point - favorites still have a lot of room to grow. Hopefully this project can get them the attention they deserve. I'm happy to report that a pretty large percentage of the daily active users on HN have favorited a few items (and some outlier users have favorited hundreds)!
- midgetjones 9y agoThat would be great, although personally speaking I like to keep all my bookmarks in one place, so it wasn't that useful for me. However, I do favourite particularly interesting comments sometimes, and would love to see what other people have saved as very often they're more interesting than the link itself.
- modo_ 9y agoCool - I'm actually planning to spin off a version that just shows favorited comments when I have time!
- jferge 9y agogreat stuff, a lot of cool posts i wouldn't have known about otherwise.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoThat would be a fun link along the lines as /new which would help new users get a sense of the place.
- dang 9y agoNice. I suggest dropping the "Ask HN" posts or filtering them onto a second page, since those discussions tend to be a lot different from original story submissions. We need to do more with the favorites feature! We'll do that eventually (in accordance with our motto, "move slowly and preserve things").
- modo_ 9y agoThanks dang! I was super excited when you guys first announced favorites - there's so much cool stuff on HN that disappears after a day or two. Filtering the "Ask/Show/Tell HN" posts onto a new page is definitely a next step - as well as adding a favorite comments page. Could you guys add favorites to the API? Scraping is pretty rough - Cloudflare doesn't seem to like me.
- tmaly 9y agoFor me the Ask HN posts tend to have the most gold in terms of information. I tend to bookmark these the most.
- adjkant 9y agoI would find it really funny if this thread becomes a top favourited one since it's directly bringing attention to the feature and is very much worth bookmarking in some way. +1 favorite :)
- vxNsr 9y agoI only noticed the feature a week or two ago, I guess this is one of those things that will slowly gain use...
- chauhankiran 9y agoI like this thing about HN community, making something interesting from raw materials! Good Job.