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Inbox at news.yc. Thoughts?
Cool to be able to contact fellow entrepreneurs and hackers.
- jey 19y agoJust put your email address in your profile. I already have email, myspace (which I ignore), and Facebook. I don't need yet another inbox. I wouldn't object to a form on news.yc that would send a message via email without revealing the recipient's email address, in case people don't want to put their email address in their profile.
- benhoyt 19y agoOr put your website in your profile and have your email or a contact page on the website (if you'd rather keep track of where your email address goes and take anti-spam measures). Looking at my News.YC profile just now reminds me ... for websites in general, should /profile be the same page as /user/MYSELF? Some sites (like News.YC) have only the latter, or make them equivalent, but then you need to log out to see what your profile looks like to others. Not that it really matters for News.YC itself, because the profiles are pretty trivial. (BTW, I sometimes use "Web Developer Toolbar, Disable Cookies" to pretend to log myself out. Handy.)
- brett 19y agoDid this come up after reading the "Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead" article on the front page now?
- LeeSky 19y agolol @ brett
- ivankirigin 19y agoOther enhancements I've been thinking about... Specific RSS feeds: RSS feed of responses to your comments RSS feed of leader stories (I think the existing one does this) RSS feed of new stories Is downmodding available? Sometimes I see it, but not other times. Leading users shouldn't be based on lifetime, as some people have dropped off. It should be something like mean karma/day over the last month. Both rankings would be useful. I don't think an inbox is needed. Perhaps just an open comment stream on each users page, with the option of privacy. You then should be able to have an RSS feed from your user page.
- jey 19y ago"Perhaps just an open comment stream on each users page" That's an interesting suggestion.
- euccastro 19y agoWhat would you use it for?
- ivankirigin 19y agoto ask someone an open question and discuss their ideas/plans if they're open about it.
- euccastro 19y agoAn useful stat would be karma/post.
- ivankirigin 19y agoIf you comment on lots of new stories, where others don't comment, you would be less of a leader. That doesn't sound right.
- euccastro 19y agoIt's a tradeoff between rewarding volume or signal to noise ratio. I think showing both stats gives a more complete picture.
- nostrademons 19y agoFlip side is that users who comment a lot on popular stories but don't post much tend to get overcounted. My karma/post is like 25-30, but only because I get the majority of my karma from comments. My posts themselves average like 5 points. I've picked up literally 100 karma in the last week or so, yet made only one submission in the last month. A couple popular comments can heavily distort the averages.