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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#371
Does anyone still use Greasemonkey? I created a small little script[1] a while back. It's not nearly as sophisticated as the HN Enhancement Suite plugin, but it adds some nice features. It previously added comment collapsing, but I disabled it since it's now a permanent feature.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/robmass94/hacker-news-enhancements/src

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Only three more votes before I get superpowers. :)

I upvoted you. With great power comes yadda yadda yadda. Edited to add: PSYCH!! Now it's going to take 4 upvotes to get super powers. BWAHAHAHA!! Edited to add #2: Just kidding! You're 2 upvotes away again! P.S. Dear friends, I'm sorry. I won't abuse my vast and terrible ability to grant or deny imaginary Internet points ever again. -xf

That's not how karma trains work!!

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#373
post #18

I bet whoever has the top comment on this one is going to see their karma go up and down as everyone tests out the unvote and undown feature. :)

Voted up. Saw the "unvote", didn't click it. I believe Hacker News has tested the functionality. I'll leave the upvote. Here's to you splawn.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#374
Once collapsed, the summary gives a count of the child comments. However, the gut reaction is that this correlates to upvotes/karma. I'm wondering if [-] & [+] can be fixed to their appropriate size while the number of children is supplemental to this. Not sure what the best way to format it would be but worth exploring.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#375

I have a piece of feedback. The new collapse button is at the end of the comment. This means that the collapse button's position on the page changes based on username length and duration wording (hours Vs. minutes, etc). One nice thing about other websites which I won't name, is that you can read and collapse all of the top comments without having to "seek" the collapse button constantly. You can literally scroll and…

This. It took me a minute to find the collapse link, but once I found it... What a time to be alive.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#377
UI request

Can you make the "flag | hide | past | web ..." buttons have consistent spacing from the left margin? I'd like to keep my mouse in the same position while I filter through the articles on /newest, rather than hunt and click as the "hide" button moves back and forth based on the username/etc length.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#378

Thanks, folks, for the great improvements! 1. The time-capsule feature is really cool. Traveling back in time to see what sort of tech people were building / what other things were on the front page when X popular product launched is going to be so much fun. Update: it only goes back about a year and a half. See below. 2. Undoing votes has also been something I've wanted for a long time. I've accidentally downvoted/u…

Which bookmarking service do you use, just curious?
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