The top comment right now on /bestcomments was from 7 days ago. It's like some comments only "arrive" onto that series of pages when they get enough votes.
I would just have a timeline of all comments that become best. It could be sorted by how new they are to any thread since being submitted to it, or, how new they are to actually becoming classified as a best comment.
Former: "freshest best comments"
Latter: "newest best comments"
To make it really nice, show each comment, and be able to close it from viewing and then remember the state between sessions. That way people can go through each comment and they don't have to read it twice - they've already closed it after having read it. A bit like an RSS reader. Or the person could even delete read or ignored comments. Wait maybe an alternative to all this is to provide 2 rss feeds of previous timelines: new/fresh.
Even bigger, fatter wheels might help, like car tires or some e-bikes.
But honestly if we are blue sky dreaming for a second - I wonder if there will come a time when a two wheel kick scooter can self-balance, such as by using more wheels in a different configuration or by using some other kind of board or motor technology to stay balanced more of the time. If a scooter also had the ability to predict if it was going to crash into a curb or pothole or if there were more safety features, even maybe better jackets and jeans that have padding in all the right places to support falls, I’d think we’re moving in the right direction. The gotcha is that we’ve had time to understand what bikes and cars need for safety but we haven’t had as much time to understand what makes for a safer scooter ride yet. Likewise e-bikes too, if you ask me. And jury’s still out as to whether or not bikes or cars have “solved” their safety issues completely.
I should say that scooters are definitely still improving. A new latch design is slightly better than the old one, suspension can help maintain balance in some situations but not others, and some scooters have anti-skid technology so the front and back wheels always rotate at the same speeds at the cost of a loss of power going up hills sometimes.
Short of a true hoverboard, the answer may come in emulating wingfoils on the ocean. A third wheel drops down at speed and pushes the scooter deck into the air. Like lowering a plane undercarriage. So an e-unicycle below the e-scooter. That creates a buffer if a pothole or kerb is hit - the wheel swings back into its holding compartment and the e-scooter wheels make contact again.
Hey, and why not even hold a wing up when the battery is low!? That can also charge it up!
Maybe it's a stepping stone into robotics for people wanting to live amongst their robot friends and helpers in AR? A future Boston Dynamics + Meta collaboration?
Also, to control robot avatars in the real-world from your bedroom! How else are you going to buy your milk?! And those robots will be used to map out a true virtual-reality that reflects the real world (RW.) Another way to do that is installing cameras everywhere at participating towns or stores.
So the key is in bridging the gap between VR and RW.
Checkout any walking tour on YT... I'm thinking interactive and live (or near-live) versions of those.
If there was a way to fingerprint the site's data and have that fingerprint stored on a blockchain, then have some way to have a small amount paid each time the fingerprint's corresponding data is confirmed to be hosted somewhere. The hosted site has an address in its robots.txt to pay the funds into.
One of the best things about it (as mentioned in article) is the ability to see the top comment on any item very quickly.
Try it here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180804173424/http://hackerbra....
Press "top" on any item. Also try the number on each.
Note how the comments can toggle open/shut and the colors.
I would definitely use that feature. :)
Also note the byline indents, curved boxes, spacing and popups on each single comment link.