Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

I've always used an extension to completely block the news feed (like [0]) and I've found it to be an excellent deterrant to using facebook in general. Generally now I use messenger.com when I have to but otherwise completely avoid the site.

Although HN has now pretty much replaced facebook as my go-to site when I open a browser, so I'm not sure how useful it is after all. At least it's domain-specific and less psychologically manipulative.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by jdoliner » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:04 PM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #2

This is actually useful! I had unfollowed every one of my friends and my home page is always empty.

Why do you go to facebook then?

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by OhSoHumble » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:05 PM UTC

Immediately added to Chrome. Any plans on making it so that when I click 'more' I get more HackerNews rather than being redirected from Facebook to HackerNews?

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by water42 » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:06 PM UTC

There was a missed opportunity here to format HN posts using Facebook styles

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#9

Post by dkonofalski » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:06 PM UTC

I'm confused as to why someone would want this instead of just going to HN directly? If you don't like Facebook, don't use it. :-/

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by catherinezng » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:07 PM UTC

OhSoHumble wrote: post #7

Immediately added to Chrome. Any plans on making it so that when I click 'more' I get more HackerNews rather than being redirected from Facebook to HackerNews?

Developer of hackernews-newsfeed here: I'll work on that this weekend :)