This looks very neat, I know it's an edge case (And it's not great to build Safari extensions, been there) but do you have any plans for Safari support?
Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
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Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
#42This bookmarklet does something similar and is browser-independent:
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Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
#43This looks very neat, I know it's an edge case (And it's not great to build Safari extensions, been there) but do you have any plans for Safari support?
Not an edge case, I've been tracking this for a while: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/13
Someone else in this thread suggested a version for mobile Safari which made supporting this even more interesting. No promises, but hopefully I can get to this before the end of the year.
Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
#44Works great. Only thing I'd include is customizable text and background colors. I use an OLED monitor and I'd like to make the background pure black rather than simply grey like currently. I made a GitHub issue: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/537
Makes sense! Let me know if you want to try implementing this :)
How would you expose the setting in the extension UI?
Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
#45This bookmarklet does something similar and is browser-independent: javascript:void%20function()%7Bjavascript:(function()%7Bvar%20a=Math.floor,b=document.querySelectorAll(%22p,%20title%22),c=%5B%5D,e=%22%22,f=%22%22,g=%22%22,h=0,k=0,l=%22%22,m=%22%22,n=window.open(%22%22,%22_blank%22);for(var%20d%20in%20b)%7Bvar%20i=b%5Bd%5D.textContent;i%26%26(c=c+%22%5Cn%22+i)%7Dfor(f=c,e=f.replace(/%5Cn/g,%22%20%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%2…
Yep, there are lots of ways to do something similar. Reader modes are also built into Safari & Firefox directly.
Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
#46> The extension has about 400 active weekly users right now, How do you know that? It sounds a bit scary that you are able to know this number.
I have an addon published for Firefox and they provide usage stats, which includes Daily Active Users, despite the addon itself having no tracking at all.
I believe that is the number of installs in active browsers, not how often people interact with the extension (which is much lower).
Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
#47Works great. Only thing I'd include is customizable text and background colors. I use an OLED monitor and I'd like to make the background pure black rather than simply grey like currently. I made a GitHub issue: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/537
Makes sense! Let me know if you want to try implementing this :) How would you expose the setting in the extension UI?
https://i.imgur.com/EzVONAD.png is how it's done in my current extension, perhaps you can make one of the bottom squares say "Custom color" and when clicked on, it would expose a color picker. Then save the choice in local storage or however you store data now. Dark Reader is also another great extension to look at to see how they did it.
Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
main topic of the page, so you can switfly bookmark it with 1-3 tags preset for you. maybe i'm just a unorganized hoarder that can't use bookmark to save his life but i wanted to make that for years and never got started :)
Do you use bookmarks right now, and have you tried manual tagging? I believe Pocket premium has AI-suggested article tags. Maybe something similar makes sense for Unclutter, but I'm not sure of the demand for it.
I sometime bookmark, but mostly tags.. or just hoarding lumps of links. Hmm thanks for the info, I didn't know pocket did that. Now I just need this as a standalone firefox extension :)
ps: in any case, my suggestion was a soft tongue in cheek, not pressing you, unless it excites you. And kudos on your results already.
Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have an addon published for Firefox and they provide usage stats, which includes Daily Active Users, despite the addon itself having no tracking at all.
I believe that is the number of installs in active browsers, not how often people interact with the extension (which is much lower).
Might be, here's a screeshot of the graph:
Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
#50Naturally this required the "Access your data for all web sites" permission -- most powerful/useful extensions need this permission. But I've been pretty conservative in adding extensions with it (as in, just two, including the obligatory UBO). Why isn't there a permission where the add-on doesn't get to access anything until I activate it for a specific tab, and then it only gets to access to that specific tab? Uncl…
There's also a tremendous difference between:
1. "Extension sees data on pages for which it's activated, and might modify that all kept locally", and
2. "Extension sends all page information to The Cloud^W^W Somebody Else's Computer where it is probably being shared with umpteen third parties, advertising^W behavioural manipulation and surveillance organisations, and will be preserved in crystal until the Heat Death Of The Universe.
Why desktop, and most especially mobile platforms / operating systems fail to either distinguish or permit control between these two scenarios is ... utterly beyond me.
There is Steve Krenzel's recent account of being pressured, by both a Twitter marketing exec and the phone company requesting the feature, to track "when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day".
This should not even be possible, let alone invisible to the device owner.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33511016>
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589700721121058817.html>
The reputational harm that this does to the company, to mobile computing, to Web 2.0, to the start-up sector, and to the infotech sector as a whole really cannot be overstated.
Burn it down.