Is Hacker News feature locked?

2 points by Bellows 13y ago ↗ HN

There are minor things that would make Hacker News better.

- Use AJAX to update the homepage and comments in real-time, while highlighting articles and comments that are new. This could be a toggle.

- Allow marking articles as read without clicking on them. (imitating :visited)

- Auto-notify when someone replies to your submission or comment.

- Perhaps a way to follow a user and receive updates to their submissions and comments.

- Allow collapsing comment trees.

I'm not suggesting to transform HN into a full-blown social site. These features could be implemented with minimal presentation. (an icon here and there)

I get the feeling HN is feature locked and they just defer improvements to 3rd party apps.

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taylorbuley 13y ago ↗

I get the feeling that the people who code it make good product decision such as: is the investment in engineering resource worth the payoff?

If traffic trends are any indication people are perfectly happy with HN just the way it is.

Bellows 13y ago ↗

Traffic is a poor indication of user happiness. I will view HN regardless if these features happen, but I won't be as happy.