Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments
A surprisingly long time ago (2013 was a busy year) I mentioned a new plan to improve the quality of comments on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6009523 Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this YC cycle, this was my last chance to get this done. I didn't want the people who are going to inherit HN from me to have to build it as their first project, because it interacts with so many different bits of the code in such subtle ways. So I found time to implement pending comments this past week, and with any luck it will launch tonight. Since it's a big change, I wanted to warn HN users in advance. Here's how it currently works. From now on, when you post a comment, it won't initially be live. It will be in a new state called pending. Comments get from pending to live by being endorsed by multiple HN users with over 1000 ka
Why it failed
A surprisingly long time ago (2013 was a busy year) I mentioned a new plan to improve the quality of comments on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6009523 Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this YC cycle, this was my last chance t
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- pg
- Ended
- 2014
- Source
- hackernews