Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1234786

by ecyrb • 16 years ago

42 13 16 years ago

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Maybe an "unhide all" button in the event we hide something unintentionally?

kes• 16 years ago

I'm going to go out here on a limb, and vote no. It's not needed - that I can see - and would only serve to clutter.

tokenadult• 16 years ago

It's a good thing that all the "Ask HN" threads (more generally, all the threads without external URL links) are now aggregated under the "ask" link at the top of most pages, as the feature request thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

linked to from the bottom of most pages seems to be missed by everyone these days.

pistoriusp• 16 years ago

When you click read a story on HN it kind of "hides." At least it becomes less prominent than the other stories.

I often struggle trying to find links that I have read when there are a bunch of links that I haven't read.

dood• 16 years ago

This would make the HN frontpage much more useful to me, and also make me see more new stories.

It is pretty frustrating to keep visiting the homepage and 1/3 of it is stuff I know I have no interest in.

CoryMathews• 16 years ago

Hide would be great.

or even better a filter option.

Then I could say filter-remove:ipad

jolie• 16 years ago

It'd be useful to filter certain things for one's attention, as well... for email/SMS/other alerts or simply as a different tab in HN.

Xichekolas• 16 years ago

Filter has been done by many a GM script.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

I realize that only helps if you have a browser with GM (like Firefox).

wingo• 16 years ago

Would be an interesting data collection exercise, too.

Tichy• 16 years ago

I'm pondering a Countdown Greasemonkey script, that would hide all articles I haven't clicked on within 5 minutes.

The problem is I keep coming back to procrastinate, and end up reading the irrelevant articles, too. Maybe auto-hiding them would help :-)

resdirector• 16 years ago

Perhaps HN should learn via your upvotes which articles to show you.

And the same principle could be used for comments, too.

nathanb• 16 years ago

Perhaps what would be more useful is an RSS feed. That way you get standard newsreader features like mark-as-read and show-unread and sort-by-newest for free.

Of course you don't get the sorting, but them's the breaks.

barry-cotter• 16 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

pg• 16 years ago

The reason I don't do this is that it would remove the pressure to make the content of the site be good.

One reason public transport is bad in most US cities is that rich people rarely use it.

Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?

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