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Back in the day of USENET, readers typically had kill files, and it was quite easy for each user to arrange for items they didn't care about to be elided (based

Back in the day of USENET, readers typically had kill files, and it was quite easy for each user to arrange for items they didn't care about to be elided (based on author, keyword, etc.). Not unlike this. I'd kill for a general form of that that worked uniformly on sites like HN, reddit, etc., and perhaps random forums, comment sections, and so on. The new interfaces are nice in many ways, but that was a true killer feature, and it's pretty much lost.

tannhaeuser 6y ago
Strange enough, I recently noticed there's still life in Usenet's comp.lang groups for things like formal anouncements and language spec casuism with content not found elsewhere (after the decline of mailing lists and degeneration of StackOverflow). Seriously considering posting there once again.