Comment by busymom0
6 days ago
I swear I read this article 2 or 3 days ago and the comments on that post were also same as this post. Am I missing something here?
6 days ago
I swear I read this article 2 or 3 days ago and the comments on that post were also same as this post. Am I missing something here?
You're missing the second-chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool which allows certain posts to reappear as if they were new.
That doesn't show for me unless I click the link.
How does it work?
dang selects a post to be second-chanced, and this resets the timestamp on it so it appears again.
Once again expressing my opinion that this is the worst anti feature of the site. Threads are like commenting in the void because most people are not going to be looking for replies to comments they made days or weeks ago. I see the true datestamp of the comment I replied upon upthread was not 3 hours ago, but 3 days ago.
The fact that they change the timestamp is also very stupid (yes you can hover and still return the datestamp, but this is by definition a dark pattern). These posts should preserve the timestamp vs masking it and even should be flagged as [Second Chance] in the title imo.
wait what the heck yeah, this is the same post as from a few days ago, i guess the comment and post timestamps got glitched??
That'a thing HN's second chance pool does. If you mouseover the "3 hours ago" or whatever on a comment, it will tell you the actual post timestamp.
That is insanely bad borderline hostile UI.
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There have been almost zero visible changes to the HN codebase in over a decade, but the one thing I would love to see them add is a little flag on the heading of the post to say it is 2nd Chance Pool to avoid all these comments every time this happens and everyone is confused :)
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