Ask HN: Features you miss

2 pointshugocaracoll12y ago5 comments

I would like you to share features you feel are missing in apps you use everyday. I mean the ones that you feel that are crucial.

This is intended to be a way to share knowledge and maybe gather ideas for future projects from HN folks.

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samirahmed12y ago

Here are a few I can think of, not all are necessarily things that I miss, but people do miss it.

- Gmail old style compose/reply dialog

- Windows 7 had a search everything feature, now windows 8 has search by App/Files/Settings

- Github used to have a downloads tab for you to upload binaries associated with your code.

- Internet Explorer 9 supported extensions (via plugins), IE 10 is plugin free (although a step forward) doesn't have any customizability (no potential ad-block / vimium)

- Twitter List functionality (it wasn't implemented well but it was useful to help separate your stream).

- OneNote- Older versions of OneNote had OCR functionality, newer ones don't, one of the reasons I prefer Evernote

hugocaracollOP12y ago

- Gmail's compose is different now. While you compose a message you can, check email. That's cool.

- I acknowledge that OCR functionality is very important and many products miss it.

Thnak you samir

tshepang12y ago

The Compose functionality is quite nice, but not when you do mailing lists, where bottom-posting works best. The new UI makes that painful.

sfrechtling12y ago

Simplicity. Many apps are missing simplicity of use, simplicity of design, and simplicity of features.

hugocaracollOP12y ago

Could you name a few apps please?

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5 comments

samirahmed12y ago

Here are a few I can think of, not all are necessarily things that I miss, but people do miss it.

- Gmail old style compose/reply dialog

- Windows 7 had a search everything feature, now windows 8 has search by App/Files/Settings

- Github used to have a downloads tab for you to upload binaries associated with your code.

- Internet Explorer 9 supported extensions (via plugins), IE 10 is plugin free (although a step forward) doesn't have any customizability (no potential ad-block / vimium)

- Twitter List functionality (it wasn't implemented well but it was useful to help separate your stream).

- OneNote- Older versions of OneNote had OCR functionality, newer ones don't, one of the reasons I prefer Evernote

hugocaracollOP12y ago

- Gmail's compose is different now. While you compose a message you can, check email. That's cool.

- I acknowledge that OCR functionality is very important and many products miss it.

Thnak you samir

tshepang12y ago

The Compose functionality is quite nice, but not when you do mailing lists, where bottom-posting works best. The new UI makes that painful.

sfrechtling12y ago

Simplicity. Many apps are missing simplicity of use, simplicity of design, and simplicity of features.

hugocaracollOP12y ago

Could you name a few apps please?

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