Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed • Hacker News Board

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:08 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.

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Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:10 PM UTC

jdoliner wrote: post #6

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?

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Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by zomg » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:10 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.

i'm considering the same! i use facebook more to follow/find groups or businesses that i have an interest in.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by nattaylor » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:11 PM UTC

dkonofalski wrote: post #9

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. :-/

I thought the same, but I could use this to check messenger & groups while skipping the feed.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by brookside » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:13 PM UTC

jdoliner wrote: post #6

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?

Event invites.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by CSDude » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:16 PM UTC

I expected something more creative, replacing posts with my friends, like my grandmother sharing why React is awesome and my primary school friends discussing how did they go microservices.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by subie » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:16 PM UTC

jdoliner wrote: post #6

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?

To decline game invites.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by calt » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:20 PM UTC

dkonofalski wrote: post #9

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. :-/

One word: Addiction

Facebook events are invaluable to my life these days, but the news feed is an addiction that I've been fighting since university. If only I could be %100 dedicated to all resolutions without any effort then I wouldn't need any tricks like this.

Plus this is just meant to be silly. I should really just blank out the news feed like someone else suggested.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by mrleinad » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:22 PM UTC

passivepinetree wrote: post #5

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 psych…

I went cold turkey and closed my fb account. Feeling a little bit of abstinence, but I think I'm replacing it with more activity here and instead of opening fb on my phone, I open an ebook reader, so it's good so far.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by Kiro » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:23 PM UTC

Why do you need Greasemonkey for this?