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Comment by lucumo | Hacker News Reader

When was the last time that a feature that was requested elsewhere was actually implemented?

Edit: What I'm trying to say is that I don't know if requesting it on the feature page really helps, but I haven't seen any features requested outside the feature page actually seen implemented. pg is probably very busy and few people send patches.

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I get the sense that Paul isn't terribly interested in patches either. (After having sent one and not hearing back.)

When you give someone advice that they are supposed to follow then you should probably not answer a genuine question about your advice with something that I read as 'but it doesn't work elsewhere either'.

If you point people to the feature request page then you should be able to back that up with the knowledge that you are not effectively sending them to a black hole.

I'm pointing him to some other place where his luck is likely to be better. It may or may not be a black hole, but at least he's out of this black hole. And stops bothering us on top of that. Win-win.

> And stops bothering us

I think that should read 'stops bothering me'. Everybody here speaks for themselves, so do you. By using 'we' you assume that he was bothering me, and everybody else here too, and in fact he wasn't, though there may be many more people that sympathize with you.

I don't think there are. Some of us agree that parts of HN don't work as smoothly as they ought.

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