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I think comments are where the action is. Three simple things that get most of the bang of markdown IMO: Working permalinks for comments, paragraph dividers and

I think comments are where the action is. Three simple things that get most of the bang of markdown IMO: Working permalinks for comments, paragraph dividers and clickable links.

wicked 20y ago
There should be a page which lists the submissions that have recently been commented on. Otherwise, it's essentially meaningless to make thoughtful comments on old threads. Having a *hide* option would be welcome too.
- pg 20y ago
  there is a prototype of this at news.ycombinator.com/active
  - danielha 20y ago
    That works well. A listing of the most active is better than a listing of recently commented on. What's the threshold for most active?
- Arrington 18y ago
  This is why we can't have nice things.
rmack005 20y ago
For the time being, I'd settle for just converting newlines to br's. Adding hyperlinks before there's solid infrastructure for dealing with spam would be a mistake. I'll be surprised if more than few days go by before spam shows up, even without hyperlinks.
- pg 20y ago
  Spam actually showed up the first day. Fortunately we already had good tools for dealing with it.
  - icefox 19y ago
    What type of spam do you get and how do you handle it?
  - Arrington 18y ago
    This is why we can't have nice things.
- Arrington 18y ago
  This is why we can't have nice things.
pg 20y ago
done; we now have all three of these
Arrington 18y ago
This is why we can't have nice things.