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It's interesting to see another entry point to HN. Is there some way to see how many comments the posts have? I think reading the discussions is a huge part of
by pell 8y ago
It's interesting to see another entry point to HN. Is there some way to see how many comments the posts have? I think reading the discussions is a huge part of why people use this website.
- geekpoll 8y agoVery true!
- dosy 8y agoThe small "hn:<item_id>" link under the title will take you to the page on HN. I was lazy to make that info available here. Because of the way the HN API works, I believe you need to make a separate request to get the number of comments ( maybe traversing the tree? ) and doing that in a way that makes sense would involve more code, so I just left it out. I had the idea today I should have called it ∂HN since the reranking is just taking the first or second derivative of the ranks. I think that way of presenting it may be more interesting to HN readers than "Sakura", which was the original idea / name that I liked. If you code and could be bothered you could always submit a PR to add the comment count functionality. I would really like / appreciate that. Let me know and I'll make the code available on GitHub.