Oh THANK YOU. The extension I’d been using before has been having bugs recently and stopped showing “next page” buttons.
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#142I'm late to this but just wanted to mention - I'm checking out the extension and like it quite a lot.
Only feedback I have right now (that I haven't seen anyone else mention) is that I'm finding it hard to jump to the next "top-level" comment. If I'm half way down a comment thread and decide I just want to skip the rest of this thread, I'm used to just scrolling down a bit until I see the next top-level comment and I'll read from there. It's easy enough to do in non-skinned HN because the everything is left-aligned, but with the extension I haven't been able to intuit a left 'border' yet and am not sure if it'll ever come to me.
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#143This is not a critique of the work, I understand that some folk prefer it and that its beautiful work. I _hate_ modern web UIs however. Give me plain old websites that are information dense, with none of the fluff. HN and old.reddit.com are my daily reads. I will be _very very_ sad when old.reddit goes away and I probably will have to go app only (Apollo) when that happens.
Same here and in my opinion one of the reasons HN became what it is: they didn’t fuss with the interface, kept it simple and light. When old.redit stops working I’ll probably stop using it altogether.
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#144I kinda come here because it doesn't have this :) But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.
I love it. I wonder if it's possible to do this by proxying requests to HN instead of a Chrome extension -- that way I don't have to bloat the browser's start-up time and don't have to "worry" about this extension spying on other websites, even though I realize it's unlikely, it's good principle to not have to give this permission.
I use hckrnews.com but it only changes the start page.
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#145The following is not any sort of critique on the author’s work. The design looks quite fresh, in fact. This is merely a tangential observation. Anyone else see the mock-up and think “this looks slow”? Logically, it’s not a defensible inference in the slightest. There’s nothing about this design that would necessitate performance tradeoffs. But that’s the barely-conscious, emotional first impression I had. I wonder if…
I had your exact same reaction. Related story: In my free time I am a coach for a competitive math team, I recently had to design an application to automate multiple choice problem submissions. Nothing stellar, your run-of-the-mill CRUD app. But it was under some interesting engineering constraints: users would have to log in from a variety of devices, phones, tablets, bad chromebooks, etc., possibly on slow cellular…
The ability of simple server-side applications to solve problems quickly and efficiently is vastly underrated these days.
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#146I think HN looks fine already. The only real problem with this site's design is that the text is too small.
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#147> suggestions welcome
One tweak I hope HN will roll into its own UI: if "HN Can't Process Your Requests This Quickly", then offer a "window.reload()" link. Comes up when I'm opening a bunch of bookmarks at once and maybe there's three or four HN links that open. Same thing as hitting refresh, just a added convenient step.
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#148I totally love this!
IMHO worth the upgrade. Kudos. This solves one of my biggest pain points on my Ultrawide monitor. Excellent layouts/fonts and dark mode. Perfect!
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah ok. Actually we've mostly turned pagination off lately because recent performance improvements (not the big ones - those are still coming!) made it possible. But I forgot to turn it off when I restarted the server today, and with the big QE thread burning hot at the moment, we should maybe wait a while. I agree that it's annoying and it will be a happy day when we can turn it off properly.
oh, that's great news. pagination always got in the way when tracking new comments because when switching to the next page the order of the comments may have changed, and i see comments on the second page which i already read on the first, and i wonder which comments i am missing because they moved from the second to the first page by the time i switch pages.
Yes, it's actually a hard problem to solve when the content isn't ordered chronologically. The front page(s) have the same issue. With /newest and other chronological feeds, of course, getting pagination correct is easier—though you still have to account for new items having shown up in the meantime.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love it. I wonder if it's possible to do this by proxying requests to HN instead of a Chrome extension -- that way I don't have to bloat the browser's start-up time and don't have to "worry" about this extension spying on other websites, even though I realize it's unlikely, it's good principle to not have to give this permission.
There's [Hackerweb]( https://hackerweb.app/ ) which uses the HN API and does some clever stuff delegating to a webview.
Thanks for sharing! I love this skin, the dark mode is really easy on my eyes. And the threading is really nice too.