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Ask HN: Anyone feel the need for personalized filter on submissions?
It would be really cool have personalized filtering for news. I personally would like filter out techcrunch and all facebook related news.
e.g. in profile page some input where you can put values separated with commas.
Then more submissions from "newest" would make it to main page. What do you think?
- euroclydon 18y agoDo you use the RSS feed? I just subscribed in Google Reader, and while I find the UI un-pleasurable, I think filtering at the feed level would be pretty easy, supposing there is some type of customizable feed reader out there. At the least, PG could make another feed for the "new" view.
- cperciva 18y agoI'd love to be able to set my own filters, but I would be filtering by submitter, not by domain.
- mindaugas 18y agoI agree, actually it's good idea, to have filters by submitter as well.
- brk 18y agoI like this suggestion (for whatever that is worth). There are one or two submitters that I am 99% sure have their tinfoil hat folding instructions memorized and do not submit things that I personally find interesting. Additionally, there are several mindless attention whoring sites that seem to post a three-layer linked synopsis of what is, to me, a non-interesting story. Being able to apply some high-level filters might allow people to see the items they are interested in better. It would also allow you to filter out submissions from sites that you read directly. At the same time, there is something very unique to the approach here, and as valueless as some of the items I mentioned are to ME, they don't really get in my way.
- bayareaguy 18y agoIf we're talking about HN (news.arc), I'd prefer gravity control based on site and submitter in the form of a simple list of patterns and weights I could set in my profile. That way unpopular things that interest me would stay in my view longer and popular stuff I don't care about would vanish sooner.