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This. Yes.

Something like "favorite" on twitter, right? That would be awesome.

BetterDN can do this!

These are my exact suggestions as well. Also, the ability to follow users, to avoid posts that are not interesting to me.

but it's very important that everyone gets this through their skull

"Very important that everyone believe what I do"

Sorry for snarking. I value the breadth of things that show up here and don't think the balance is off. I appreciate the variety.

I'm sorry your opinion didn't make it through my skull.

That's quite a unilateral view of design - there's more to it than the technical side.

I want LESS news about Photoshop, Sketch or CSS. To me, they are just tools. It would be like an architecture forum focusing on drafting tools, or a painting forum focusing on paintbrushes. Design theory like case studies are way more interesting in my opinion.

I want news about Photoshop, Sketch, or CSS.

That's like an architect just wanting news about drawing boards.

I kinda get what you're saying, but that's still kind of a draconian view of what design is. I think the community does a pretty good job of discussing what's important, peripherally or otherwise.

Maybe some kind of algorithm that considered discussion frequency with upvoting would help weed out things no one actually cares about.

I'm kind of sad that you give tool-specific examples.

I love seeing things about someone's odd design process, studies on psychology and human-machine interactions, design theory applied to everyday experiences, product release post-mortems (that aren't weird "we be dead" self-promotion). The design of objects – or services – can be a source of great nonstandard insight, which carries over to interface design.

Basically, design as "going from an idea to a concrete concept" is what keeps me coming back. This and great discussions.

I couldn't care less about:

• What UX actually means (this week)
• Vacuous explanations on the latest visual trends
• Completely technical posts (they're useful, but not news for people who design)
• Product announcements that are just tease-pages asking for your email
• Clickbait links
• ^ So, most of FastCo at this point

As a mod, I've had the ability to sink any post I see fit for a long time now, and I've yet to use it on a single thing. I think the content here is great and don't see the need to be dogmatic about the kind of content that's interesting to designers. In fact, I'd just like to scale the community in a way that keeps the content quality the way it is now.

Also more AMAs is always nice.

What about a content filter option? It could auto-group topics that could maybe be chosen when forming a post, and display them in a filter panel, and work like AJAX does so the page doesn't even refresh as it shows/hides posts that YOU actually want to see, this way you don't even lose your scroll position on the page. Content for you, and different content for the other commenters with opposing views, on demand at everyone's fingertips when they want it.

Design is a multidisciplinary process that is informed by many things. Semiotics, culture/pop culture, language, art, psychology, neuroscience, trends, fashion, technology, music, etc can all contribute to how we design and how an audience processes our work. I want to hear about what makes a great designer great and that isn't going to be the tools that he/she is using. I enjoy seeing content that other designers find interesting, even if it isn't directly related to design. HN's policy is similar:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Breadth is important . I realize that nobody wants DN to turn into a pile of blog spam, but I think there is a happy medium. I am quite happy with the current content. It could maybe use a little tweaking in its ranking.

Dude...design is communication, theory, critical thinking, ideas, typography, craft, emotion, making lives better etc...and it spans all disciplines. Design is not just the latest web framework, app, or software tool that might interest just the product, ux, and developer folk. SMH..If I could throw my 2 cents into this survey, I would ask that the "power users" filter themselves from submitting so many junk articles about "This weeks latest CSS fad".

I call that “honest linking,” and I would like to see this as well.

Agreed. Being involved in DN is great, and it does help when you have a new project or product you want to promote (and the target audience is designers). But, the real problem seems to be people promoting non-project/product things. Like, posting links to Dribbble shots, etc.

I think the "rules" for self-promotion may need more declaration.

Yes this!! My comments are AMAZING and it's important for people to know that ;)

But for real, this is a good idea.

Signed, a great commenter

It's Designer News, not Design News. I think most people take that to mean stuff of interest to designers, not just design.

I believe you can change that in your profile settings.

I'm pretty sure I could advance to the next question without ticking on of the boxes on this question.