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I've been considering changing the icon for our "like" system. The thumbs up is very much a staple on sites like Facebook, but we are a different breed of site. I was considering maybe a heart like they use on Dribbble or maybe a pyramid upvote like StackOverflow. I had considered a star like GitHub, but stars are a bit too broadly used. Any suggestions?

Yes just add their username to the search and limit the results to posts. You can also add the programming language to your search to further limit the results.

Yes, I was just looking into doing a tooltip for it.

I moved the like total to the navbar. Now you can see how many likes you've earned from any page of the site.

I've added the ability to link to a thread. Now when you hover over one an icon will appear to open it as its own page.

I haven't gotten around to changing all of the icons quite yet, but I will eventually get to them all.

We just made the leap to icon fonts. Now the icons should be a bit more crisp and universal across the site. It should also help with page load speed. Our library of choice is IcoMoon, http://bit.ly/UKYJti

It would be better to host the demo in a more permanent place.

Would be great to see a demo.

@jrharper I'm sorry, but I'm just not very clear about what you are doing. Are you using the code provided on this page or are you building something entirely different? If you need some general programming questions answered you might want to try searching StackOverflow. It's a very good Q&A development resources.

Here's the Hacker News discussion, http://bit.ly/XKdkKl

Looks like GitHub added a new Contributions display as the default profile screen. I like the contribution activity. It helps encourage you to help out with other repos rather than focus on making your own. What do you think? https://github.com/Hawkers

Yes, freenode would be the best place. Thank you.

I enjoy debugging those types of problems. It's like solving a mystery.

Sure, you can do that, but the format would be more along these lines:

@BlueThen Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Seems like JavaScript should have grown more. I guess node.js is still fairly small in the big picture.

Hey @F*U*R*B*Y* Good to see you back!

I'm not too clear what you mean. Can you illustrate your point with some example URLs and the code changes you made?

@Lindrian Yes, that's on my todo list. It should at least initially be limited to the users in the thread then expand.

Here's a handy Linux command I discovered to sort files and directories by the size of their contents:

@Conscious Probably GitHub. I don't see too many Java applets being demoed there, but I imagine its possible.

Welcome back. Hope you can put an end to your coders block.

@Conscious I think I'll either add the word "Link" to the right of Like and Comment or I'll make a link icon appear when you hover over the post.

We just broke 80,000 comments at Hawkee, http://hawkee.com/comments/ - Let's try to double that in 2013.

I think Python is certainly the language to learn right now.

Yes it appears to be broken. I'm considering removing that feature because it doesn't necessarily fit the purpose of the site.

There you go. You should be able to pick up more search traffic that way.

Another thing I need to do is offer a link to threads so they can be shared on their own page.

I just came across this article and noticed it's using Ubuntu, http://bit.ly/UzgsE7 - Doesn't look so great here though.