I've noticed everyone likes the PDF version. It's trivial to add it as a comment since I have it copied in the clipboard from creating the submission - it's my standard practice now.
It would be more useful if the original hyperlink to a PDF file was preserved and a hyperlink to scribd was also presented. This would also eliminate a problem with duplicate hyperlink suppression.
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It is at the point now where I click on the comments for every scribd.com story to see if someone has pasted in the original pdf url. Never fails.
I've noticed everyone likes the PDF version. It's trivial to add it as a comment since I have it copied in the clipboard from creating the submission - it's my standard practice now.
Sure fire way to get karma it seems.
Definitely. After a few hundred it doesn't really matter though.
Then why not submit the direct PDF link in the first place? Or is it a 'helpful' news.yc antifeature?
(PDF readers actually load faster than scribed, provided you aren't using the vanilla Adobe one with all the plugins turned on.)
It's a "helpful" feature. All PDF links are auto converted to scribd.
It would be more useful if the original hyperlink to a PDF file was preserved and a hyperlink to scribd was also presented. This would also eliminate a problem with duplicate hyperlink suppression.
As most readers here already know, scribd is a YCombinator startup, so it's a useful feature for news.YC to have.