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Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
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#64Firefox has a new Split View that's useful for this, but you still have to left click and select open in split view (M) then click the link. You also used to be able on some browsers to craft a link that was href="tab1.html|tab2.html", no idea if that's still a thing or if it was limited to "home page" setting.
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Re: Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
#65Feature 2 is really useful. When I land on a technical article I know chances are there will be a nice HN discussion, that may sometimes even refute the main point of the article. Feature 1 is IMO less useful. It just suggests that people are bad at window management. We didn't like overlapping windows and finding them, so we created tabs inside windows. Then we wanted to see two things at the same time, so we create…
Not sure if I agree about using windows instead of tabs. I have hundreds of tabs open, and dozens loaded, at any moment. I'm sure that it's possible to manage all the context with separate windows via a window manager, but it would have to be a REALLY good window manager to be able to provide equivalent features of tree style tabs and separate panes and whatever else that something like Sidebery provides, and it is always easier for each application developer to implement tabs suitable for that application's requirements.
Re: Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
is this better than using a chrome extension? i guess people need to have tampermonkey installed and so thats a slightly higher barrier to entry? i wonder if chrome would be interested in "sherlocking" userscripts so that we can distribute non security nightmare code easier.
Tampermonkey isn't better than using a Chrome extension, but it's less friction for a developer to build and distribute a cross browser script. If they build it as an extension, they need to target multiple browsers and get it deployed to the Firefox/Chrome web store.
Userscripts are also less friction for the user. At least for some level of triviality.
I would say only go for extensions over userscript if you need a settings menu (or any of the APIs the sibling comment mentions).
Re: Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
#67This is how reddit supposed to be. A universal comment box for del.icio.us
Re: Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
#68Is it lame that (especially for super long discussions), I often open a gemini tab and summarize the comments? I like reading HN comment threads, but I often only have a few minutes and just want to get the gist of the reactions from the community for some topic.
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#69This is how reddit supposed to be. A universal comment box for del.icio.us
I’d love if there were different “layers” of meta discussion on top of everything on the web. Every blog and website would have an untold number of communities having discussions that are completely optional for you to view.
Instead of browsing across sites, you’d be browsing across communities seeing the same site.
Re: Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
#70The mobile default seems important here: opening the panel collapsed, then preserving its size per site, could keep the first article read predictable while retaining quick access to the discussion.
I modified the script to start collapsed. Code is in this issue if you would like to try it: https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere/issues/5
(Replying to both of you)
I've updated to v1.4.5 which now allows you to drag the toggle button anywhere you want on screen, and added the collapsed-by-default behavior on mobile.