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Let's also have zero notification whatsoever that someone answered to your comment so you have to keep engaged in constantly looking thru it manually

by ilyt 4y ago

baxtr 4y ago
This is a very neat "engagement" feature idea! Love it. I would probably then just bookmark the site and check it constantly.
- theGnuMe 4y ago
  But no ads. Cause we aren't in it for the money.
  - smoldesu 4y ago
    ...well, okay. A few ads, but only for semi-relevant job openings.
runlaszlorun 4y ago
aha! good idea! the web is… not free really… but more free than the wall gardens. i think its biggest weakness is that notifications don’t really work there. but that bug is now a feature. nice!
wheats 4y ago
Maybe a really unintuitive system for ranking too? Like make it unclear why some posts are ranked higher than others, and why some are somehow greyed out even though there isn't an obvious way to downvote or report content. Also make it so you have to manually minimize the top reply in order to see the second most popular topline reply because there should be absolutely no limit to seeing the amount of subreplies.
- bnralt 4y ago
  The thing that gets me about the unintuitive system for ranking is that you have zero idea how long something will be on the front page. It could be 3 hours old, #4 on the page, with a few hundred upvotes and more points than almost all of the votes on the front page, and then just disappear an hour later. And once something drops off the front page, it gets seen by almost no one. I keep trying to stop myself from spending too much time on comments (editing them for clarity and grammar, finding sources that people can follow instead of just relying on my claims, rereading the person I'm responding to in order to make sure I actually got what they were saying), because it's easy to spend 30 minutes trying to make a solid comment only to find out that the whole discussion has now disappeared and no one is likely going to read it.
  - unsupp0rted 4y ago
    I have no interest in what quantity of people end up reading my comments. What difference does it make to me if it’s a popular thread or an unpopular one?
xigoi 4y ago
http://hnreplies.com/ http://hnreplies.com/
snowwrestler 4y ago
Zero notifications, if such a thing existed, would help an online community stay constructive since the default behavior would be to forget conversations. This would help folks get some distance and perspective rather than being constantly reminded that they have an argument to win. Another nice thing about zero notifications in our new social media app is that the development effort for that feature is very low.

Let's also have zero notification whatsoever that someone answered to your comment so you have to keep engaged in constantly looking thru it manually

by ilyt 4y ago

Let's also have zero notification whatsoever that someone answered to your comment so you have to keep engaged in constantly looking thru it manually

baxtr 4y ago

This is a very neat "engagement" feature idea! Love it. I would probably then just bookmark the site and check it constantly.

theGnuMe 4y ago
But no ads. Cause we aren't in it for the money.
- smoldesu 4y ago
  ...well, okay. A few ads, but only for semi-relevant job openings.

runlaszlorun 4y ago

aha! good idea! the web is… not free really… but more free than the wall gardens. i think its biggest weakness is that notifications don’t really work there. but that bug is now a feature. nice!

wheats 4y ago

Maybe a really unintuitive system for ranking too? Like make it unclear why some posts are ranked higher than others, and why some are somehow greyed out even though there isn't an obvious way to downvote or report content. Also make it so you have to manually minimize the top reply in order to see the second most popular topline reply because there should be absolutely no limit to seeing the amount of subreplies.

bnralt 4y ago
The thing that gets me about the unintuitive system for ranking is that you have zero idea how long something will be on the front page. It could be 3 hours old, #4 on the page, with a few hundred upvotes and more points than almost all of the votes on the front page, and then just disappear an hour later. And once something drops off the front page, it gets seen by almost no one. I keep trying to stop myself from spending too much time on comments (editing them for clarity and grammar, finding sources that people can follow instead of just relying on my claims, rereading the person I'm responding to in order to make sure I actually got what they were saying), because it's easy to spend 30 minutes trying to make a solid comment only to find out that the whole discussion has now disappeared and no one is likely going to read it.
- unsupp0rted 4y ago
  I have no interest in what quantity of people end up reading my comments. What difference does it make to me if it’s a popular thread or an unpopular one?

xigoi 4y ago

http://hnreplies.com/ http://hnreplies.com/

snowwrestler 4y ago

Zero notifications, if such a thing existed, would help an online community stay constructive since the default behavior would be to forget conversations. This would help folks get some distance and perspective rather than being constantly reminded that they have an argument to win. Another nice thing about zero notifications in our new social media app is that the development effort for that feature is very low.