Curious if single post (potentially monthly) on generating (actionable) ideas on improving HN would help HN improve.<p>—————————————<p>(1) Top-Level-Comment-Format:<p>- IDEA: (One sentence)<p>- VALUE: (who needs what and why)<p>- ESTIMATES: Time & Resources<p>- VALIDATION: How will you know success happened? How would you compare it’s success with prior efforts? How would you know to when to failure happens or related efforts should end? (EDIT: Clarification of meaning “validation” — that being the topic of validation is limited to validation of the “value” not validation of anything else, including but not limited to validation of a given implementation technically, roadmap, etc.)<p><i></i> One idea per top-level comment to enable clear understanding of votes.<p>—————————————<p>(2) Top-Level-Comment-Response-Suggestions:<p>- FEEDBACK: on idea<p>- VARIATIONS: of idea<p>- VOLUNTEER: Planning, Beta, Coding, supporting, financial, maintenance<p>Suggest limiting each top-level comment to a single topic to enable clear views of voting.<p>—————————————<p>(3) META-COMMENTS:<p>Lastly, I will create a top-level comment for meta-comments on the idea of “Ask HN: Ideas to Improve HN“ — which is where all comments about this post should go; all other top-level comments should be “Ideas to Improve HN”.<p>—————————————<p>DISCLAIMER: Other than having a meaningful understanding of HN/YC, I have no relationship with either. That said, if this makes the home page, I’ll ping the HN mods to insure they’re aware of it.
See post description to understand this comment:<p>>> “I will create a top-level comment for meta-comments on the idea of “Ask HN: Ideas to Improve HN“ — which is where all comments about this post should go; all other top-level comments should be “Ideas to Improve HN”.”
Clicking on a link and having it open in a new tab/window should be a user profile setting that's turned off by default so the current behavior remains the same, but users that prefer this behavior can override the default.
- IDEA: Rewrite HN in Crank.js<p>- VALUE: It would be cool if HN used native JavaScript features<p>- ESTIMATES: Week, people rewrite HN all the time shouldn't be that hard.<p>- VALIDATION: Should be able to tell from viewing in devtools.