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Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#41

Post by e_proxus »

tommoor wrote: post #33
betterth wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why not let the users run their own CSS if they want to? I like to use the Georgify user script: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...

It's not very compatible with your addon, unfortunately.

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#42

Post by betterth »

tommoor wrote: post #33
betterth wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think you may have misunderstood: If I rollover a username, it drops down a popup. If I move away from the username, the pop-up remains. It notices my onMouseOver to instantly rolldown, but ignores my onMouseOut when I leave.

This disparity in behavior is frustrating, why is activation onMouseOver, but deactivation requires a full click white space to change focus? It should be click on/click off or roll on/roll off, IMO.

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#43

Post by polshaw »

tommoor wrote: post #8
driverdan wrote: post #5

Can you add privacy details? It looks like this is using a 3rd party service for social profile data.

Hey, The extension queries Google's social graph API to gather information about users profiles - you can find details here: https://developers.google.com/social-graph/

That link goes to:

     'The Google Social Graph API is no longer available'
Anyway, i'm not keen on that. Infinite scroll and CSS should be options, too.

Personally, all i really want is collapsible comments, inline replies, and hiding stories

Anyone know of a script/extension that does just that??

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#44

Post by ealfert »

I tried to contribute to this thread but my IP seems to have been blocked after submitting my comment. I included a list of 6 Chrome extensions and their URL that in my opinion improve the usability and features of HN. I'm afraid to submit it again since I don't want the current Squid proxy's IP being blocked also and then I won't be able to read HN until I find a different IP I can route through. Anyone know how long IP blocks last?

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#45

Post by tommoor »

sushi wrote: post #15
vasco wrote: post #12

I would use it if you didn't change the css, and didn't make share the rightmost link. Also, that "block this guy" popup is really pervasive when you're just roaming around with the mouse. Other than that, really nice work!

Same suggestion. I like the overall improvements but please don't force the styling. Make it as an option that users can check to disable default styling of HN.

Definitely considering making this an option in the next version

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#46

Post by vibragiel »

vasco wrote: post #12

I would use it if you didn't change the css, and didn't make share the rightmost link. Also, that "block this guy" popup is really pervasive when you're just roaming around with the mouse. Other than that, really nice work!

I agree about the share link. The "X comments" link is probably the most clicked in HN, and everybody expects it to be the rightmost. It has confused me several times already.

Nevertheless, I'm definitely keeping this extension!

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#47

Post by tommoor »

EvilTerran wrote: post #40

Damn... 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?]

That's all part of the fun ;-)

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#49

Post by muyuu »

driverdan wrote: post #5

Can you add privacy details? It looks like this is using a 3rd party service for social profile data.

I'd also like to know more about that.

"Your data on hackerne.ws and news.ycombinator.com" sounds very generic and I'm not knowledgeable on Chrome extensions. Does that include POST requests? how about cookies and passwords?

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