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

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Post by maddyboo »

caroherm wrote: post #18
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…

I reaaalllyy like this theme! As others have said, it would be great to have it in the UserStyles library.

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

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Post by maddyboo »

pvg wrote: post #5
shapiro92 wrote: post #4

why is this even on the top? no offense but it is a css stylesheet.

You should install it and then try reading your own grumpy comment again. See?

It takes the grumps out of HN and replaces them with cuties!

https://i.imgur.com/GNpBKlj.png

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

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Post by reificator »

carlosdp wrote: post #15
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.

But on the other hand a user who is already interested in overriding the styling for one site is a likely candidate for wanting to install more.

Furthermore, having one extension to trust for security's sake is much nicer than having one for each and every site you want to custom theme. Especially since the general theme is going to want to build up a library of themes and requires user trust to do so, phoning home secret information would eventually destroy that trust. But an extension that only themes Google.com is a more likely candidate for harvesting credentials, for instance.

Creating an extension is also a browser specific process. If there's one browser extension for all sites backed by a repository of plain CSS themes, then users on multiple browsers can benefit from theming with minimal porting effort on the part of the theme author.

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

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Post by caroherm »

maddyboo wrote: post #22
pvg wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should install it and then try reading your own grumpy comment again. See?

It takes the grumps out of HN and replaces them with cuties! https://i.imgur.com/GNpBKlj.png

this is my favorite observation :)

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

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Post by caroherm »

maddyboo wrote: post #21
caroherm wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I reaaalllyy like this theme! As others have said, it would be great to have it in the UserStyles library.

I'll look into it, thanks for the info!

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

#27

Post by reificator »

throwanem wrote: post #14
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-...

Thanks for the heads up, I didn't know that.

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

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Post by caroherm »

chrisparton1991 wrote: post #23

Nice work, and thanks for sharing! I think your repo serves as a great example of how simple a Chrome extension can be, so it has value as reference material.

Thanks so much! I'm planning to clean up the repo later tonight so it's better organized.
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