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Eduard Maura edited this page Nov 14, 2016 · 2 revisions

Welcome to the Hacker-News wiki!

This is a page for the users about how to use our version of Hacker-News.

1. Home page

In this page you will see all url contributions sorted ascendantly by its punctuation. Every url contribution is formed by it's title, the url where the article is found, how many times the contribution has been voted (traduced to points), who is the author of the contribution, how old is the contribution and how many comments it has.

2. Sign in

To use all features of our version of Hacker-News we ask you to sign in into our system. You would have to use your Google account to join our community.

3. Newest

Here you will see all types of contributions sorted by its older. It shows the same information as in section 1 for each contribution too.

4. Threads

This page is only showed if you are logged in the system. It shows all the comments and replies done by the user logged, sorted by its creation date. Each entry also shows the url or ask contribution to which the comment or reply is responding.

5. Ask

This page shows you all ask contributions sorted ascendantly by its punctuation. It also contains the information said in section 1.

6. Submit

To add a new contribution you need to be logged in the system. So, given a user who is already logged in, to submit a new contribution you just have to click on the submit menu option. There a simple form shows the necessary fields to submit. Every contribution must have a title and a content, which can be a url or a text (but not both). After submitting the new contribution you will be redirected to the newest page

7. Comments

This feature is only available for those user that have logged in. To add a comment to a contribution you have to click on the comment section of the contribution you want to comment. Then you will be redirect to a page with a form where you will see a tree schema of the current comments and replies of the contribution.

8. Replies

This feature is only available for those user that have signed up. To add a reply of a comment just click on the reply link under the comment you want to reply. Then you will be redirect to a new form page in order to type your reply

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