Or just redirect facebook to hackernews via your hosts file? I can't emphasize enough how beneficial it has been to stop using facebook completely, I would highly recommend you try it.
Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
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Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
#42I'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
#43Why do you need Greasemonkey for this?
You don't actually need Greasemonkey. These scripts are browser-agnostic, so if you use Chrome, you can just install this as a Chrome extension. If you don't use Chrome, you can install this on Firefox using Greasemonkey.
Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
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I think the point of this extension is for people who need to access facebook features like groups and events, but don't want to get distracted by the dopamine-inducing newsfeed on the way
It's been more like cancer-inducing with all of the political talk these days.
Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
#45Or just redirect facebook to hackernews via your hosts file? I can't emphasize enough how beneficial it has been to stop using facebook completely, I would highly recommend you try it.
I think the point of this extension is for people who need to access facebook features like groups and events, but don't want to get distracted by the dopamine-inducing newsfeed on the way
Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
#46I'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.
In a perfect world, I'd have only the functionality that those two provide, perhaps with some sort of static profile.
Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
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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.
But you realize, that reading hacker news is, an addiction on its own? ;)
Edit: doing the trick like this, injecting HN into FB feels like injecting coffee into your veins - I don't think it will give you the effect you're after.
Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
#48I 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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I've been off facebook for a month now and I really really miss pages of some artists and groups for abstract art. I was seriously getting into asemic writing at the same time I was trying to kick the habit of typing out whatever bullshit ideas about politics were in my mind. Aaaand I chose the latter. :-(
If you really miss those, you can write a bot that logs in a dummy account and scraps the content and emails it to you. Makes for a cool weekend project.
Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the point of this extension is for people who need to access facebook features like groups and events, but don't want to get distracted by the dopamine-inducing newsfeed on the way
If that's the intention I would recommend this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...