[dschobel]

How hard would it be for HN to filter posts like this? There are only so many permutations of "Why is this here? / What does this have to do with HN?" possible...

[gnosis]

To my knowledge, HN hasn't added any new features in years. I think the people who run this site are pretty happy with it the way it is and don't want to change it, despite many suggestions for improvements. So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to do anything about it.

[pg]

Actually I added one about an hour ago.

This is an interesting suggestion but it would not be on our top 100 things to fix.

[k-mcgrady]

As accounts cannot be deleted (and I understand why), I would love to see the ability to change my username to something less identifiable to me.

[gnosis]

Very glad to hear that improvements to HN are still being made. I stand corrected.

[unimpressive]

>Actually I added one about an hour ago.

What was it? I'm genuinely curious.

[pg]

Better detection and banning of abusive crawlers.

[pyre]

Most likely related to behind the scenes algorithms (e.g. combating spam, ranking the front page, etc).

[v0cab]

Could you please delete my account?

[pyre]

You just have to be around for some of them. Sometimes pg has done things to the UI of the site, then there is a large thread of community commentary, then it's kept, modified, or removed. If the feature shows up, and then goes away over the course of a day or two, you might miss that anything happened.

[loumf]

In the past pg has mentioned adding a feature to the running instance via a connected REPL, not the real source. If it proves its usefulness it goes in the source -- if not, the next restart removes it.

[DanBC]

There are very many add ons and extensions and things available for HN.

There's bound to be a thread filtering add on for whatever browser you're using.