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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8926644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8926644

• NietTim 12y ago
  Oh! I looked for it a bit but couldn't find it. My bad
  • julianwachholz 12y ago
    Try searching for "WhatsApp".
    • NietTim 12y ago
      TIL Hackernews has a searchbar I'm still finding my way trough this UI (Why is there no 'inbox' with replies to your comments?!)
      • phabian 12y ago
        Or google-fu: allintitle:whatsapp understand site:news.ycombinator.com
      • Jacqued 12y ago
        https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/
      • riquito 12y ago
        > TIL Hackernews has a searchbar It does, it's at bottom of each page
        • frankzinger 12y ago
          On reddit 'TIL' means 'today I learned'. P.S. TIL some people automatically downvote any post containing the word 'reddit'.
          • NietTim 12y ago
            And other places on the internet.
            • frankzinger 12y ago
              My apologies; talk of 'TIL' and inboxes made me think of reddit.
        • NietTim 12y ago
          Yeah, that's what I meant
      • SyneRyder 12y ago
        There is an "inbox" of sorts, but it took me years to find it - it's the Threads link in the top navigation bar.
        • NietTim 12y ago
          Ah I see, thanks!
      • benihana 12y ago
        Because it's not reddit (stop acting like it's reddit - the communities and conventions are quite different) and if you want to participate in a discussion, stay in the thread. Did you come from /r/programming? There have been a few comment threads talking about hacker news recently.
        • danellis 12y ago
          You're making excuses for poor UX in a way that makes you sound elitist. Not alerting you that you have replies is ridiculous. "Stay in the thread"? No, thanks, I'm not going to keep checking my comments for replies. Thankfully there's hnnotify. HN just has a poorly designed interface.
          • juliangregorian 12y ago
            It really does, but the anti-Javascript crowd here is very vocal and would likely inspire some sort of Digg-like exodus if the UI were ever brought into the 21st century.
        • NietTim 12y ago
          Sorry man, didn't know I'm not allowed to criticize poor UX. I will never say anything at all. No I didn't come from /r/programming, or reddit for that matter.
• smackfu 12y ago
  And it's not considered a duplicate submission because one has a trailing slash and the other doesn't.
  • dang 12y ago
    Of course it is a duplicate. The software doesn't catch all of those; that's on purpose, to allow good stories multiple cracks at the bat (edit: i.e. multiple chances to get attention). We rely on users to search before posting and on moderators to bury the dupes that sneak through. User comments pointing out the duplication are helpful. This isn't a perfect system but it's much better than being too strict about reposts. We're going to work on a more effective dupe detection system as soon as we can get to it.
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