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Ask PG: could you add the subdomain next to the article title?

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It would be nice for some domains like wordpress.com and google.com

Suggestion: Add the subdomain when it is different from www

I couldn't agree more.

This morning I nearly had a heart attack when I read the title 'Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish' from 'google.com'. Thankfully I was too soon out of deep sleep to have a physiological reaction... It certainly woke me up though!

Uhm, for some reason it didn't even cross my mind such possibility. Instantly thought it was someone quitting GMaps for some other tool, and that's what it was.

Afterwards I did ponder why it was showing google.com domain, and yes, I can understand it can be misleading.

I had the same reaction. In this case I think I would have had the same reaction even with a subdomain since Google has started to announce things on their various Google+ Pages.

I actually thought they were retiring it!

I had exactly the same reaction this morning, and - again - wished for subdomains for some special domains like google.com

same reaction! I thought they sold or spun it off

Hahahahaha YEah, i actually thought the article would be something like " Since our pricing model is not well received, and we can not fund the project without charging heavily, and no one wants to pay, well byebye?!"

Github pages is another common cause of confusion here. I constantly see links to "github.com" which are really links to "randomgithubpage.github.com" with the rather important subdomain cut off.

HN user yahelc created a script and posted it here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3394755

https://gist.github.com/1522657

To install, simply go to that gist and click "Raw" on Chrome, or on Firefox with Greasemonkey installed

works fantastically

And here's one for all the people who read HN through hckrnews.com: https://gist.github.com/1599746

Thanks for suggestion. Works great!

Well, a similar request was suggested 757 days ago as feature request:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996374

More than 2 years have been passed and not a single feedback or improvement has been made.

It's already done on select domains, like blogspot. But it could be done on a few more - even most.

At the very least, add a sub-domain rule for plus.google.com

Seriously. It would make it easier to ignore all of these

On this story

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3455114

I see the subdomain (playlatam.wordpress.com) shown as requrested.

I think this happens by default to the domains its needed most for like collections of blogs. Extending this to all domains makes sense, I think.

Same for blogspot.com

So since this seems like it would be dead simple to add, and the desire for it is clearly there among many users...

There must be some downside to adding it that I'm missing. Outside of some potential for people with domains to use it for humor, or for tracking in some way, I can't see much.

Anyone else got any idea why not?

and jokers like me who put up a blog that is entirely based around the subdomain: http://fr.anc.is

Somebody made a Chrome extension for it, which I use. Anyone have a link to that post or comment?

See the userscript above, which chrome handles a bit like an extension.

Subdomains? How about the opportunity to include a 30 word summary?

If you want that on the front page, I think it would make it too busy.

I also don't really see its utility in the comment section either--if I'm here, I can either get the information I want from the comments or skim the article. Having a summary would encourage more people to read less articles before commenting; this is something endemic to Slashdot and not a good thing.

Noobs keep asking for this feature almost daily now and pg kills the post every time, because you're not supposed to ask like this. Feature requests go in the feature requests page at the link in the bottom. Or just upvote the link by gauravgupta, it's on that page.

Not sure condescending references to 'noobs' is in the spirit of HN. There are other sites to go to if you want to talk like that.

Not really, it's just referencing new users, it's used in the site itself: http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories and http://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments

Not that I want to dive into 'yet another typical silly internet argument (TM)', but those seems to me to be tongue-in-cheek geek references whereas your comment carried the immature snark of 'lol you n00b' which I come to hn to avoid.

I'm afraid you're looking for something that just isn't there. Now this feature request is a good idea in my opinion, that's why I'm suggesting to upvote it on the Feature Requests page and not just make another post that will get killed and ignored.

I hadn't heard that word in a few months. Shocking.

I think it is a really bad way to gauge community interest on the feature requests page because very few will see it. Not much in the way of features gets added to HN so its only like to happen if pg and co decide it themselves or there is a heap of community interest.

there is an easy solution for pg and noobs.

implement the feature request and everybody is happy.

What is this, Wikipedia?

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