Awesome!!!!
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#32The only missing feature that prevents it to become the ultimate HN extension is to show an icon in the address bar that links the a web page to the HN thread (if available). Keep up the great work!
I want this too! This comes close: http://chetan51.github.com/panels/hacker/
Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I would use it if you didn't change the css Same here. It seems very useful but styling should be optional, some of us realy like how good ol' HN looks.
The CSS needs some cleaning up, I can see a few little issues, but I personally like the new style a tad better. I get the whole hackernews/reddit meme of "thou shalt design the most basic UI and never change it", but these days it feels more like an "engineers idea of a minimum viable UI" instead of a "well-designed, minimalist, useful UI". This looks good, and while I won't call it better quite yet, I have no stron…
Thanks for the feedback,
The crosses are definitely supposed to be hidden away and not something that you would use all of the time. For the username rolldown's, it is a shame they can't work a bit faster but it's just the nature of the beast - I've added a delay so it is harder to trigger them by accident.
Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome
#34A few points:
1) There's a subtle difference between the white background of the extension and the border of the browser. We're talking just enough to notice but not enough to quickly see the contrast. I'd say make it completely the same or exaggerate the contrast a bit more.
2) Any way to address the tiny buttons for up vote/down vote? They are so small that I am always afraid that I'll hit the wrong one. Perhaps side by side or more spacing between them.
3) Just for discussion sake, do you think when sharing it should be mentioned that it's come from HN?
4) In-line comments are awesome! How about using a sidebar on the HN homepage for something like preview or better yet, to display comments for the current article with similar styling to preview in Google search results?
5) Endless scroll on the "Comments" page seems to be broken.
I don't know if I can ever go back to the standard HN....Great job!
Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome
#35Congrats Tom! Been looking forward to using this.
why thankyou good sir.
Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome
#36Endless scrolling is very cool, until you try to click one of the links on the bottom or use the search.
I did consider moving search to the top - what do you think? What stopped me was wanting to augment rather than completely change the current HN experience.
Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome
#37The only missing feature that prevents it to become the ultimate HN extension is to show an icon in the address bar that links the a web page to the HN thread (if available). Keep up the great work!
I want this too! This comes close: http://chetan51.github.com/panels/hacker/
Also:
[Hacker News'd!] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/njdndkhkelkeepcnmo...
[Hacker News Sidebar] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhedbplnihmkekhgma...
But are not perfect and it would be nice to have a single package.
Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome
#38The only missing feature that prevents it to become the ultimate HN extension is to show an icon in the address bar that links the a web page to the HN thread (if available). Keep up the great work!
This should do what you're after: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/njdndkhkelkeepcnmo...
I've been using it for months and it works great for me.
Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome
#39Endless scrolling is very cool, until you try to click one of the links on the bottom or use the search.
I did consider moving search to the top - what do you think? What stopped me was wanting to augment rather than completely change the current HN experience.
I understand your goal of not completely changing the HN design. However, as the extension works right now, it is literally impossible for me to click the links on the bottom. I can see them for a microsecond if I scroll to the bottom but they instantly get pushed down by a wave of new stories.
Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome
#40Damn... I've been working on a userscript to do, well, pretty much what this does; I'd completed thread folding, and was just getting stuck into AJAXy "more" links and reply forms.
Oh well, time for a new hobby project.
[edit: Incidentally, do you find the tables-within-tables-within-tables structure of HN, with some arbitrary variations between pages, as infuriating as I do? Or am I doing something wrong?]