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Could Offer HN be added to the main navigation bar? Otherwise I fear it will quickly fade into obscurity.

by VBprogrammer 16y ago

idoh 16y ago
At least it needs to be added to: http://news.ycombinator.com/lists http://news.ycombinator.com/lists
- jackowayed 16y ago
  /offers (and /offerless) aren't permanent yet: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839988 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839988
  - idoh 16y ago
    Thanks, that makes sense. In fairness pg could also paste it into the server invocation too though.
    - roryokane 16y ago
      For the benefit of those who, like me, had trouble understanding the parent comment: by “it”, idoh means “code to add /offers to http://news.ycombinator.com/lists” http://news.ycombinator.com/lists”.
charlief 16y ago
An alternative not mutually exclusive: Mixing Shows, Tells, Asks, Offers together into one page * I doubt offers will be as plentiful as Show, Tell, Ask. * Offers also expire where Show, Tell and Ask are relevant for a longer periods of time. Mixing Asks, Tells, Shows, and Offers + others together allow irrelevant or aging submissions to slide, making a more useful "offers page". It makes offers compete in some sort of page ranking, instead of a usually unchanging page. * If I want to see a recent, hot Offer, I'll see it on the top page. If I want to see medium-aged offers, by mixing them in with asks, I'll see other interesting content as well. It is a more useful offers page. Making a separate offers page will have me polling a page that doesn't change usually. * If I want to see very old offers, I'll use searchyc, google, or check jacques' blog. Chances are I won't be doing this that often because very old offers will be expired. edit: totally implemented, probably before I posted even a long time ago In that case, with an offers list on the next invocation and a very functional asks link, I don't think an extra link on the bar is necessary
Huppie 16y ago
pg said it's currently just added in the REPL, so until the next server reboot it'll be at /offers [0]. Just as with /ask it'll probably stay if 'Offer HN' stays a busy list. 0: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1840062 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1840062

Could Offer HN be added to the main navigation bar? Otherwise I fear it will quickly fade into obscurity.

idoh 16y ago

At least it needs to be added to: http://news.ycombinator.com/lists http://news.ycombinator.com/lists

jackowayed 16y ago
/offers (and /offerless) aren't permanent yet: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839988 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839988
- idoh 16y ago
  Thanks, that makes sense. In fairness pg could also paste it into the server invocation too though.
  - roryokane 16y ago
    For the benefit of those who, like me, had trouble understanding the parent comment: by “it”, idoh means “code to add /offers to http://news.ycombinator.com/lists” http://news.ycombinator.com/lists”.

charlief 16y ago

An alternative not mutually exclusive: Mixing Shows, Tells, Asks, Offers together into one page * I doubt offers will be as plentiful as Show, Tell, Ask. * Offers also expire where Show, Tell and Ask are relevant for a longer periods of time. Mixing Asks, Tells, Shows, and Offers + others together allow irrelevant or aging submissions to slide, making a more useful "offers page". It makes offers compete in some sort of page ranking, instead of a usually unchanging page. * If I want to see a recent, hot Offer, I'll see it on the top page. If I want to see medium-aged offers, by mixing them in with asks, I'll see other interesting content as well. It is a more useful offers page. Making a separate offers page will have me polling a page that doesn't change usually. * If I want to see very old offers, I'll use searchyc, google, or check jacques' blog. Chances are I won't be doing this that often because very old offers will be expired. edit: totally implemented, probably before I posted even a long time ago In that case, with an offers list on the next invocation and a very functional asks link, I don't think an extra link on the bar is necessary

Huppie 16y ago

pg said it's currently just added in the REPL, so until the next server reboot it'll be at /offers [0]. Just as with /ask it'll probably stay if 'Offer HN' stays a busy list. 0: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1840062 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1840062