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

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Can you make it so that I can upvote this multiple times :) Really good job. Editing comments is a bit funny though: after clicking Update it takes me to the standard update page on HN instead of staying inline (on FF).

Yeah, that's a backend issue, it's how Hacker News handles the forms after they have been submitted. Nevertheless I will look into this, please consider creating an issue on the GitHub repo too! :)

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

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We have a browser extension that we use for moderation. A few of the features here overlap surprisingly with what that one does. One of these years I want to open-source it, but I need to factor out the moderation-only features, which is one of those tasks that never makes it to the top of the stack.

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

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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

This is also the same layout for Gmail (and many other apps I'm sure)

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

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post #62

We have a browser extension that we use for moderation. A few of the features here overlap surprisingly with what that one does. One of these years I want to open-source it, but I need to factor out the moderation-only features, which is one of those tasks that never makes it to the top of the stack.

This is exciting to hear, hope to see it soon :)

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

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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.

This one's really cool:

https://userstyles.org/styles/114659/hacker-news-terminal

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

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you ever use "Hacker News Enhancement Suite" otherwise known as HNES? That extension had a few of these same features.

Yup, I've used that extension briefly in the past. It certainly provided nice features, but as with other similar extensions, it also altered the style quite a bit, which I wasn't too fond of.

I use HNES, but the only feature in it I care about is tagging users. I very much wish I could turn off all of the other features, especially its custom styles. If you were to add the ability to tag users to RHN, I'd be one happy camper!

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't it be HNES? RES = Reddit Enhancement Suite so RHN would be? Reddit Hacker News? And I have no clue that RFN was supposed to stand for. Edit: Actually it looks like there is already a HNES [0] [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

RHN = Refined Hacker News

Oh duh, thank you!

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

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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…

Good work( using this comment to test out the inline reply and while typing i noticed , that , hey this works " )

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

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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…

Good work( using this comment to test out the inline reply and while typing i noticed , that , hey this works " )

Editing the same comment however goes to new page but, Good Work.. coffee on me
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