Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
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Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#42Hello 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…
This is excellent. I appreciate that you've made Firefox a first-class citizen and even added instructions for Opera users. Very nice!
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#43Hello 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…
This is excellent. I appreciate that you've made Firefox a first-class citizen and even added instructions for Opera users. Very nice!
Thank you very much!
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#44Hello 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 well as less accessible.
Edit: I also see a 3/28 counter and a spinning icon on the top left of the page that doesn't change regardless of which post I'm browsing. Sometimes it disappears if I navigate to another post or page, but it looks like it starts with 0/28 for every post. [This is on Brave right now; no issues with connectivity or connection speed; dropdown menu from the username works.]
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#45This is like RES for HN, RFN!
I believe you meant "RHN". Nevertheless, thank you so much!
Wouldn't it be HNES? RES = Reddit Enhancement Suite so RHN would be? Reddit Hacker News? And I have no clue that RFN was supposed to stand for.
Edit: Actually it looks like there is already a HNES [0]
[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#46I've been using HackerNew [0] for years now (probably 5+) and love it. It does change the style a little bit but I quite enjoy it. It appears to be missing in the chrome store right now though for some reason.
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#47Hello 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…
Thesis: discussion software evolves towards replicating the feature set of slrn reading Usenet, only with better page design.
This is no exception.
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#48Hello 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…
Ha, I made an extension with the same idea as OP to solve just the problem you mention - at least on devices with touch screens (I'm using it on Firefox for Android).
If you're using Firefox, you can install it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sihn/
Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
#49Hello 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…
Cool, I made one with the exact same principles to scratch a personal itch - inline reply is something I was hoping to add some time.
Anyway, I'd love to be able to just use someone else's extension :) Mine makes up/downvote and collapsing buttons easier to hit on mobile, links to parent/root comments, and rewrites Google AMP links to regular links. It's open source, so feel free to incorporate those features in yours: https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/sihn
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#50Feature request: hide-paywalled-sites
Removes all links from wsj, nytimes, bloomberg, etc.