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@dang, can you change the display for (threads.net) to be like twitter, where it shows the username to the right of the post title? For example, threads.net/@q
by pdq 3y ago
@dang, can you change the display for (threads.net) to be like twitter, where it shows the username to the right of the post title?
For example, threads.net/@quiverquantitative
- hn1986 3y agothat's a great idea! did you message the mods?
- sp332 3y agoTyping "@dang" does not actually do anything. Write to the mods using the Contact email at the bottom of the page.
- wellthisisgreat 3y agoCompletely unrelated by I just wondered if GP knew that “@“ doesn’t have any functionality but used as a sort of etiquette symbol.
- cgriswald 3y agoIt seems pretty dang useful to me to make it clear when you're referring to the username.
- OJFord 3y agoAs a non-American, I always read that 'dang' as the moderator, and then it takes a second. Relatedly, I was here many years before I realised (via that NYT or WSJ or whatever it was profile) that it's 'Dan G'!
- 22c 3y agoI figure most people on HN know that @dang doesn't do anything and it's shorthand for "dang, if you happen to be reading this, [...]".
- foobarian 3y agoBut... how do we know that @dang doesn't do anything?
- ImAnAmateur 3y agoDang himself says to send in an email. I never wrote down the address though...
- sp332 3y agoAgain, it's the Contact link at the bottom of the page here.
- godelski 3y agoSure it does. It allows dang to search posts for his name without getting results that conflict with the actual word dang. Plus it's pretty common usage in places and your eye is drawn to that allowing you to recognize it's a name and not just a word. Pretty useful where people use handles and not actual names. I mean yeah, HN isn't a "smart" website, but I wouldn't say the @ doesn't do anything
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- j33zusjuice 3y agoI thought I saw dang comment once that they wrote a script to find those mentions.