you know what i can't understand as sorely lacking - an inbox/replies view on hn. i was hoping this extension had it.
Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
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Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#122Hello everyone, OP/developer here! If you are already using the extension, you can see the "[op]" beside my username too! ;) There are many extensions out there that add quite a few features to Hacker News, but they also always do one thing, which I have realised, is a slippery slope: changing the minimalistic design and style of Hacker News. I created this extension with one thing in mind: I am NOT going to mess aro…
> I created this extension with one thing in mind: I am NOT going to mess around with the overall design or style of Hacker News. It's sacrosanct. I wish you would do something about the voting buttons and the expand/collapse buttons. They're way too tiny and way too close to other elements in the default scheme used by HN. This is a big deficiency I see with the default HN interface, which makes it less usable as we…
Seconding this, the buttons are way too tiny. On mobile they are almost impossible to hit on smaller text settings.
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm, this feature seems very aggressive. Nevertheless, please consider creating a feature request on GitHub to push it forward and get greater support for it! https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues
Perhaps instead of blocking threads about paywalled articles there could be link to generate the outline.com version of the url?
Deleted: Meant to reply to parent. Just getting used to this awesome "reply inline" feature!
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#124Feature request: hide-paywalled-sites Removes all links from wsj, nytimes, bloomberg, etc.
Hmm, this feature seems very aggressive. Nevertheless, please consider creating a feature request on GitHub to push it forward and get greater support for it! https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues
Alternately, perhaps you could just add a class to each post with its domain name. That way the user can custom style (or hide completely) his or her chosen domains with userContent.css or an extension like Stylish.
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#125I like it so far, but J to navigate down and K to navigate up is not intuitive at all. It should be flipped to match our Left-to-Right-Top-to-Bottom understanding of layouts
J and K are vim's keybindings for up and down, which I figured would fit well with the community and users. What are possible alternative mappings to make it more intuitive to non-developers?
May I suggest adding an options page to configure the keybindings (and store them in browser.storage.sync)?
Happy to send a PR.
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
J and K are vim's keybindings for up and down, which I figured would fit well with the community and users. What are possible alternative mappings to make it more intuitive to non-developers?
May I suggest adding an options page to configure the keybindings (and store them in browser.storage.sync)? Happy to send a PR.
Sure, let's discuss this on a GitHub issue first :)