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

#71

Great job. What I miss is weekly email roundup of comments made by people I like on HN. Its interesting that you cannot "follow" people on HN just to specifically read their comments.

I kind of like it though. The lack of the usual "social network" features makes it much easier to focus on the merit and content of each comment.

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

#72

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…

Thank you! The #1 feature that is getting me to install is 'Next comment with same indentation and parent'. I like to skip a lot of the nested replies on un-interesting top level comments.

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

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post #72

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…

Thank you! The #1 feature that is getting me to install is 'Next comment with same indentation and parent'. I like to skip a lot of the nested replies on un-interesting top level comments.

Yup, that was my motivation to build that feature too!

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

#74
post #72

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…

Thank you! The #1 feature that is getting me to install is 'Next comment with same indentation and parent'. I like to skip a lot of the nested replies on un-interesting top level comments.

Isn't that achieved by minimising too?

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

#75
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Feature request: hide-paywalled-sites Removes all links from wsj, nytimes, bloomberg, etc.

Hmm, this feature seems very aggressive. Nevertheless, please consider creating a feature request on GitHub to push it forward and get greater support for it! https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues

Making it more general would make it less aggressive - empty by default blacklist.

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

#76
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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.

Tagging users would be a very useful feature to me.

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

#77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Tagging users would be a very useful feature to me.

Hey, thanks for the suggestion! Can you create a feature request on GitHub regarding this, it'll help me track the issues better. Thanks!

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Hey, thanks for the suggestion! Can you create a feature request on GitHub regarding this, it'll help me track the issues better. Thanks!

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

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post #50

Feature request: hide-paywalled-sites Removes all links from wsj, nytimes, bloomberg, etc.

Hmm, this feature seems very aggressive. Nevertheless, please consider creating a feature request on GitHub to push it forward and get greater support for it! https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues

Perhaps instead of blocking threads about paywalled articles there could be link to generate the outline.com version of the url?
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