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Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by numbers »

I like it, there are some colors that are still present like the comments view still has the orange and red colors here and there. I will keep it installed and look for updates :)

One request would be to make the font sizes a bit bigger, maybe different font families as well!

Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by cryptoz »

labster wrote: post #10

How long will I have to wait for the Firefox port? This extension is yet another way that free software is being shut out of the browser market. And worse, women are being targeted to be locked into proprietary software. Cmon y'all, this is super important. Let's get started on GNU/HNCute!

Chromium is not proprietary software, it is open source. This extension is written for open source browsers as well, not just the proprietary Chrome browser.

Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by throwanem »

labster wrote: post #10

How long will I have to wait for the Firefox port? This extension is yet another way that free software is being shut out of the browser market. And worse, women are being targeted to be locked into proprietary software. Cmon y'all, this is super important. Let's get started on GNU/HNCute!

I know you're joking, but Chrome extensions are Firefox extensions now too: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...

Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by carlosdp »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #2

Why is it a Chrome extension instead of just a bit of CSS in one of the many custom CSS extensions that already abound?

idk, cause the one-click install is easier to distribute than telling people to install a generic plugin they might only use for this 1 mod anyways.

Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by caroherm »

numbers wrote: post #11

I like it, there are some colors that are still present like the comments view still has the orange and red colors here and there. I will keep it installed and look for updates :) One request would be to make the font sizes a bit bigger, maybe different font families as well!

I'll look for remaining orange/red areas and push an update later tonight. Good call on the font sizes! I used Open Sans because I wanted things to stay simple and easy to read, but it might be nice to look into something else in the future.

Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by caroherm »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #2

Why is it a Chrome extension instead of just a bit of CSS in one of the many custom CSS extensions that already abound?

Mostly because I'm familiar with developing Chrome extensions, and appreciate the freedom and ease of distribution. I also used a bit of Javascript to rework some of the text areas, like the bar at the top. And injecting the favicon is done in JS as well.

I'll look into custom CSS extensions though! I'm not familiar with them. The repo is at https://github.com/carolinehermans/HNcute – it could definitely be organized better, I didn't expect to be sharing!

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