Item — HN Reader

For reference, here's the initial submission to HN with the discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1601930

Much good feedback there, it would be interesting to see a report of how much of that was taken up and integrated, how much was tested, and how much was ignored.

Instead, this submission is a repeat of this one from 4 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2563739

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Regarding the original submission, yes, I got a ton of very useful feedback. The site differs greatly from what it was then (I wish I had comparison screenshots handy right now), I implemented some of the feedback.

I did, however, ignore some feedback. Well not really ignore, I listen to every piece of advice I get, but I can't implement every feature request. Plus often advice is contradictory with other advice :)

For example, people tell me to get rid of 1-5 ratings and just do 'like/dislike'. I won't do that because there is a chasm between 'like' and 'love'.

I could write a detailed post on what exactly I took to heart and what I didn't do.

Regarding the repeat. The submission from 4 days ago didn't end up on the front page for some reason, even though from my observation it had the necessary upvotes (it had more upvotes than an older submission that was on the front page). I figured it won't hurt to resubmit, and it worked this time.