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

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Post by mzs »

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…

Thanks, I like the 'highlight new comments' bit, I hope HN will bake that in someday.

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

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Post by dang »

majewsky wrote: post #105
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.

Have you considered integrating the extension's features into the main site? (Is that were folding came from?)

We've considered it, but it's way more Javascript than we're comfortable introducing by default. (Actually it's Arc compiled to JS, another piece of software I'd like to publish someday.) Most likely, we'd make it an option you could turn on in your profile, so you'd get the functionality without having to install an extension.

(If by folding you mean collapsing comments, that was implemented separately, as part of HN proper.)

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

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Post by plibither8 »

OrwellianChild wrote: post #100
floatingatoll wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get what you're saying, unfortunately.

He is saying you can already do what you want to do. His plug-ins let you add custom styles. The place where the custom styles go is inside a text box that appears when you click on the plug-in's icon. Just copy the style he provides above, paste it in the custom style field, and it will blur the "integer counts" just like you asked!

Thanks for explaining :)

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

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Post by plibither8 »

tetrisgm wrote: post #113

Is there a way to hide all, and hide the currently highlighted item via keyboard?

You can hide the currently highlighted item by pressing shift + H. Currently, there is no way to "hide all". I believe this is a common request among many, so it'd be great if you could create a feature request on GitHub for the same so that it'll be easier to track issues. Thanks

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

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Post by libraryatnight »

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…

This is neat, thank you!

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

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Post by plibither8 »

DarkStar851 wrote: post #108
newscracker wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I created this extension with one thing in mind: I am NOT going to mess around with the overall design or style of Hacker News. It's sacrosanct. I wish you would do something about the voting buttons and the expand/collapse buttons. They're way too tiny and way too close to other elements in the default scheme used by HN. This is a big deficiency I see with the default HN interface, which makes it less usable as we…

For expand/collapse, one of the very few things I've liked about "new" Reddit is being able to click the indent bar alongside comments to show/collapse. Something like that in this for HN would be helpful.

Hey! I think what you want is already implemented in the feature "click-comment-indent-to-toggle".

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

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Post by newscracker »

DarkStar851 wrote: post #108
newscracker wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I created this extension with one thing in mind: I am NOT going to mess around with the overall design or style of Hacker News. It's sacrosanct. I wish you would do something about the voting buttons and the expand/collapse buttons. They're way too tiny and way too close to other elements in the default scheme used by HN. This is a big deficiency I see with the default HN interface, which makes it less usable as we…

For expand/collapse, one of the very few things I've liked about "new" Reddit is being able to click the indent bar alongside comments to show/collapse. Something like that in this for HN would be helpful.

The “click on the indent bar to show/collapse” on reddit was something unintuitive for me initially. Moving from desktop where there is a clear arrow icon for that, I searched online on how to do this in the interface without the triangles. :)

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

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Post by floatingatoll »

plibither8 wrote: post #114
OrwellianChild wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He is saying you can already do what you want to do. His plug-ins let you add custom styles. The place where the custom styles go is inside a text box that appears when you click on the plug-in's icon. Just copy the style he provides above, paste it in the custom style field, and it will blur the "integer counts" just like you asked!

Thanks for explaining :)

To clarify the actual question asked:

What did you mean when you said it would be too “aggressive, if I get what you’re saying” - which I do not.

(Also, that CSS exposes a coding bug in the HN site re: counts, at least as of a month ago when I last tested something like it.)

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