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Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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thunderbong wrote: post #64

This is really well done. The 'reader mode' is very clean. I really like the 'Table of Contents' that show up on the left as well as whether the article has been scrolled to the end (reading completed). Certain features like widening and reducing the width of the 'reader mode', as well as changing font size, I've not seen earlier. The highlighting feature is also great. The 'Library', which shows list of pages I've u…

Thank you for the feedback, I'm glad it resonates!

I'm already working on both of your suggestions, hopefully this will be possible within the next 2 weeks :)

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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iudqnolq wrote: post #58

I know mobile Firefox extensions are a big pain for a small userbase but that'd be my #1 feature request.

Another suggestion I heard in this thread is Safari mobile support. With covering both Firefox & Safari this makes a lot more sense to work on. No guarantees though :)

See https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/529

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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Post by phgn »

thewebcount wrote: post #52
phgn wrote: post #43

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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.

It would also be nice to know if this works in Orion. Orion is a WebKit-based browser on macOS and iOS that allows plug-ins like uBlock Origin. (You can download it here: https://browser.kagi.com/ )

I believe they want to support Chrome extensions natively, but maybe that's not ready yet. Unclutter is not installable from the extension store right now.

I'm not sure what we can do, but let's track Orion support for Unclutter here: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/569

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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Post by phgn »

drexlspivey wrote: post #54

Neat! It would be useful if the core logic was a library so you could fetch a webpage unclutter it and and save to a file or send as email.

I've heard this request before, and it's also required for a web-based version of the extension. It requires a bit of code restructuring but hopefully it can get done!

https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/332

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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Post by phgn »

satvikpendem wrote: post #39
phgn wrote: post #4

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Thank you! Admittedly, paywall-busting doesn't work as well with Unclutter as with the text-extraction methods. But it's still effective for most sites and there are custom tweaks e.g. for nytimes.com. I'm thinking about improving on this actually. It would be cool to fetch the page content from web archives automatically if it detects a paywall. Kind of like the "archive.is" links people post here all the time, but…

I use the Bypass Paywalls extension [0] for this, and it works great with Unclutter. [0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

Is this the same extension as https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome?

I've been using the latter for years now too. It still doesn't work with hard paywalls like the ones on economist.com or wsj.com.

Re: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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phgn wrote: post #36
unsafecast wrote: post #21

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I have no idea if it's related, but on chrome on my phone most of the page was solid yellow. Took a while to realize I'm supposed to scroll and the things show up. I don't like this 'trend' of the things appearing with an animation as you scroll, I find it irritating and sometimes confusing. Anyway, the problem here seems to be that the threshold is way too high, it only triggers when you scrolled the whole content a…

I just lowered the scroll threshold on mobile, does that help? The problem is that the example videos auto-play and can be quite distracting if they're visible by default.

I _think_ it's better. For me, it's still a bit weird when you're scrolling past the first one, but I think you just need a hint or something that the region is scrollable (my confusion comes from the fact that there needs to be a card-length empty space for the card to come in).
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