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Re: Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

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Post by prophetjohn »

I created this based on how difficult I found it to be to follow conversations here, especially long ones. It's always been fairly easy to keep track of replies to your own comments, but if you haven't commented in a thread or subthread, you're basically stuck counting timestamps. Since I've gotten it working it's made the browsing experience better. Please report any issues here or on github.

Re: Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

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joshschreuder wrote: post #4

Nice! Without having tried this, does the infinite scroll get around the 'unknown link' error when you wait too long to hit the Next Page link?

It doesn't. The best solution for that that I could think of was to re-GET the current page and pull the new link out of it, but I'm nervous about doing that since HN is so sensitive about HTTP requests being made in rapid succession[1].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981907

Re: Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

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Post by joshschreuder »

prophetjohn wrote: post #5
joshschreuder wrote: post #4

Nice! Without having tried this, does the infinite scroll get around the 'unknown link' error when you wait too long to hit the Next Page link?

It doesn't. The best solution for that that I could think of was to re-GET the current page and pull the new link out of it, but I'm nervous about doing that since HN is so sensitive about HTTP requests being made in rapid succession[1]. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981907

Fair enough, still like the extension. That said, I can't seem to get infinite scroll working on the home page / or /news, maybe because of HTTPS?

EDIT: Never mind, you click the More and it puts them on the current page. I thought it was done automatically when you scroll down. Good stuff!

Re: Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

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Post by prophetjohn »

greengreens wrote: post #8
greengreens wrote: post #7

Nice. The infinite scroll doesn't start until the second page though. Is this deliberate?

OK when I hit 'back' from this page then go 'more' it works.

It's currently working for me. Maybe you were just too fast and hit it before domready had fired? Let me know if you have any more issues with it.
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