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Tell PG: Thanks for the change to the "title" on each page

48 pointsColinWright10 comments

Just wanted to say that I've noticed the change to the page titles, putting "Hacker News" at the end instead of the front, and it's a huge improvement for me. Now I can see which tab is which, and when you have dozens of tabs open, it really helps.

Thanks PG.

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I never noticed, but the change sounds useful.

Although, with the community around here, I'm surprised nobody has made a browser extension to manage HN tabs ;)

(For bonus points, the extension would have to integrate HN search and comment scores)

I knew something changed, but I can't figure out what. This made me realized. Nice indeed for tab hoarders like me.

Erm.. it's not like the lightbulb just got invented.

Agreed.

First: great that the title formatting has been changed!

Second: come on HN, do we really need a post about this on the front page..?

I disagree. The important thing here is appreciating about something. To be honest, I had never noticed the title showing 'Hacker News' at front before. I only open one link at a time to keep focus. To be honest I learned something today with this post: > Next time I write my website, I will treat title bar to be a scarce resource, and won't put any unnecessary stuff. > I will test my website by at least opening multiple tabs. > If you find something useful, or notice something changed that you really liked, don't forget to appreciate it.

I'd prefer to read an appreciative post about a positive and helpful change than somebody bashing HN or any other site (which rarely happens).

Personally I always have about ten tabs open so its handy when I can go straight to the HN tab that I want.

How else can HN get feedback on changes?

I liked it and mailed the link to this to myself if only as an example of subtle (non-obvious) user-friendly things that can be done on a site. It's not too gushy (I'm not a fan of fanboism) but it's better to get constructive feedback of this type sometimes than the often bitter HN-bashing that seems to be the norm for folks who are invested enough to have an opinion and desire to share it.

No, but I thought it would be at least polite, having noticed the change, to express my appreciation for the work PG does.

I really needed this too, thank you PG.

I was going to post something like this yesterday, but then I thought it was probably redundant.

Unfortunately it has broken ihackernews.com. The comment page no longer shows the title of the article.

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