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How HN took it
3 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
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Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Val Town UX and H1 landing page praised
From 2 comments
Got to say, the H1 on the main landing page is amazing.
aejae on HNOla from windmill.dev which has some overlap but is focused on enterprise and self-hosted infra. We have exactly the same issues for the cloud and ended up securing everything…
rubenfiszel on HN
Composable Val Town idea is promising
From 2 comments
I like the idea of val.town, each snippet is isolated and can reference to other snippets & packages. One thing I wish was that other runtimes would be shipped aswell, like Ruby.…
Alifatisk on HNThe val.town idea is very promising but I think it's not as social as it could be. The val.town page is dedicated to developers and convinces with features. What I am missing is…
slushh on HN
Objections
Following users conflicts with HN's egalitarian culture
From 2 comments
What's the value of bringing Facebook/Instagram mechanics into HN? Wouldn't that skew social dynamics away from egalitarianism, giving rise to "influencers", social bubbles and…
alan-stark on HNThis is HN. The corpo minimal social news site of the most successful VC incubator. Egalitarianism and HN barely overlap.
skinnymuch on HN
No opt-out for being followed
From 2 comments
Do you have an option to opt out of being followed?
toomuchtodo on HNIs there anything preventing you from adding an opt-out feature? Yes, anyone can poll, but releasing a product that polls puts the onus on the product to honor the spirit of the…
haswell on HN
Requests
Add an opt-out from being followed
From 1 comment
Is there anything preventing you from adding an opt-out feature? Yes, anyone can poll, but releasing a product that polls puts the onus on the product to honor the spirit of the…
haswell on HN
Add push notifications
From 1 comment
Out of curiosity, any plans on adding push notification primitives?
mjdowney on HN
Add a block-user feature for HN
From 1 comment
Off topic, but I would love the opposite of this. The ability to block certain HN users, just hide their comments entirely. Certain people have shown again and again they are not…
2023throwawayy on HN
Questions
How is abuse and spam prevented in the cloud script environment
From 1 comment
Just curious, how do you prevent/mitigate abuse or spam in a cloud scripting environment like this?
cj on HN
Does the follow include comments or just submissions
From 1 comment
“When they post” Does this include comments, or just posting submissions? IMO the former would be overkill for email notifications, and the latter would be not terribly useful.
gnicholas on HN
Alternatives named
hnreplies.com
From 1 comment
You can use https://www.hnreplies.com to get notified when someone replies to your comments.
ra7 on HN
alerthn.com
From 1 comment
uBlock scripts to hide users
From 1 comment
3-minute uBlock script: news.ycombinator.com##:xpath(//span[contains(@class, 'comhead')]/a[contains(@href, 'user?id=USERNAME')]/ancestor::td[contains(@class, 'default')]) Replace…
lb4r on HN