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Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience

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Post by plibither8 »

jumbopapa wrote: post #9
plibither8 wrote: post #2

Hello 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 know you don't want to mess with interface, but have you considered a minimal dark theme? Think it might be nice.

I certainly have! I've tried a few color combinations and themes, but nothing ever fits right. You can create an feature request on GitHub so others can contribute on this idea too :)

Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience

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Post by plibither8 »

enraged_camel wrote: post #10

This is fantastic. Can you add a way to sort stories by comment count?

Seems fairly simple to do! To track these feature requests, it'd be great if you could open an issue on the GitHub repository, so that we can discuss it there too! Thanks :)

Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience

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Post by plibither8 »

behnamoh wrote: post #8
plibither8 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is rather strange. Which country are you in, may I ask? Also, doesn't this hamper with many other websites you might visit that depend on Firebase?

Currently I'm located in Iran, and yes, many websites that depend on Firebase get automatically blocked (the same goes for medium.com). On top of that, many other websites decide not to provide service to Iran in the first place, so...

That's unfortunate. Also just a small clarification: I don't recommend disabling the "show-user-info-on-hover" feature, it's just there as an example :P

Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience

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Post by mont »

tbirrell wrote: post #15

I like it so far, but J to navigate down and K to navigate up is not intuitive at all. It should be flipped to match our Left-to-Right-Top-to-Bottom understanding of layouts

It's probably set up like that to mirror vim bindings, after all, "J" does look __sort of__ like a down arrow.

Re: Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience

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Post by plibither8 »

tbirrell wrote: post #15

I like it so far, but J to navigate down and K to navigate up is not intuitive at all. It should be flipped to match our Left-to-Right-Top-to-Bottom understanding of layouts

J and K are vim's keybindings for up and down, which I figured would fit well with the community and users.

What are possible alternative mappings to make it more intuitive to non-developers?

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