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

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Post by floatingatoll »

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…

Would you consider adding "remove all integer counts" (karma, vote, comment, all of it)?

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

#82

Post by LameRubberDucky »

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…

Awesome! Thanks for giving instructions for Opera, I've been using it for my daily work for a few weeks now.

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

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Post by plibither8 »

floatingatoll wrote: post #81
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…

Would you consider adding "remove all integer counts" (karma, vote, comment, all of it)?

Interesting, since this is one of the feature that I had abandoned. I thought that such a feature would needlessly be a bit too aggressive if you get what I am saying.

Nevertheless, in the "custom styles" input in the popup, you enter the following to blur out all points, comments etc:

  span.score,
  td.subtext a:last-child {
   filter: blur(3px)
  }

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

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Post by Raphmedia »

This is going to sound like nitpicking but is there a way that you could avoid the flicker on the listing page?

Perhaps adding the on load with a static height and then filling it with the filters? Another option could be to allow the user to show / hide the bar and remember the setting. That way, one could open it when needed only and it wouldn't flicker on every load.

Same thing for the "toggle all comments" button in a thread.

I get nauseous with such flickers. I really like this extension but won't be able to use it unless this changes.

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

#88

Post by lettergram »

dang wrote: 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.

I wonder... at one point I wrote an extension (for the moderators) which had the ability to essentially follow users. Think of it as a news feed for HN.

Really wish I could make that open source if no one is using it lol I use it personally to follow people on HN which post interesting comments (still works after 4 years with no edits)

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

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Post by plibither8 »

sambe wrote: post #86

I always want the ability to skip the entire thread I'm currently viewing (as opposed to collapse the sub-thread I'm currently viewing). The official Reddit iOS app does this with a floating button, for example.

Hey, could you elaborate a little more on "skipping the entire thread"? I don't quite understand. Please consider creating a feature request in the GitHub repo's issue, it'll allow me to track the issues better. Thanks!

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

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Post by spookyuser »

Very cool!

I noticed that the extension is inspired by Sindresorhus. I think he's totally nailed the way to architect and structure extensions now. Especially if you look up a lot of guides on how to build extensions, they really don't tell you anything about how to include npm packages, or distribute the extension in an automated way. Refined github does all of this in a really clear way that, I think, works very well. I recently used it's structure to rewrite an extension of mine and it helped so much.

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