Comment by yeukhon | Hacker News Reader

Comment by yeukhon | Hacker News Reader

"new" is such a horrible name. I used to think it mean "create a new post". Please change it to "latest". Even the actually link is called "newest". Don't ever save 3 extra characters.

And add "hottest" instead of having people to click on "Hacker News".

EDIT

More suggestions from me.

"threads" show my comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=yeukhon

I never actually used this button. I always click on my profile and then find my comments and my submission.

That name is so horrible. Make it "my comments"

whereas "comments" show newcomment, not mine.

ask, jobs, submit. can we just group them differently? and create a filter somethere?

Even 1990s websites could do their nav right. (home, contact, about me, etc)

This is a genuine criticism.

Wow. I had no idea until now that "Threads" just showed my comments. I was doing the same as you, going to my profile and clicking from there!

I always associated 'ask' with where you submit questions - not where you see them. [edit] perhaps 'questions' wold be more appropriate?

edit: Whilst we're at it how about some slight changes for mobile? The amount of times i accidentially tap a users name instead of a link has to be at least half the time.

oh yeah that too. +1 That name is ... ugh lol

I have never made this mistake - probably because I clicked through there a long time ago... Upon reading what you have said I can clearly see why someone would come to that conclusion...

Human are curious animals. But we forget things too. I have probably clicked through all the buttons. But if the name doesn't make sense to me, and I have only used it maybe once (out of boredom or random habit), I probably won't remember it. Hence I probably won't recall using that button. And when I click on my profile and see "submission,comments" I make a habit of going there to find my comments and submissions. Because that route is semantically correct. Under your profile, that got to be my stuff.

Oh wow I didn't even notice Submit was up there too. Confirmed I thought new was how I'd go about making a new post

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