Ask HN: Do you us any Hacker News extesions?

#1

Post by arunsathiya » Sun, Feb 09, 2020, 1:30 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Do you us any Hacker News extesions?

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Post by arunsathiya » Sun, Feb 09, 2020, 1:31 PM UTC

I had added a text to the `url` field when creating this post, but it appears it's not included. Let me paste it below.

I have started to follow Hacker News more than ever, and a few challenges that I have are: no dark mode, when creating a discussion, there is no easy way to add new lines (no multi-line input field), hard to identify OP's comments in a thread, etc. In other words, I am generally wondering if there are extensions out there to improve the default HN experience.

Re: Ask HN: Do you us any Hacker News extesions?

#3

Post by thinkingemote » Sun, Feb 09, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

Nope but I want one for Firefox mobile to make certain things more thumb friendly like upvoting or collapsing threads

Re: Ask HN: Do you us any Hacker News extesions?

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Post by Tomte » Sun, Feb 09, 2020, 1:46 PM UTC

arunsathiya wrote: post #2

I had added a text to the `url` field when creating this post, but it appears it's not included. Let me paste it below. I have started to follow Hacker News more than ever, and a few challenges that I have are: no dark mode, when creating a discussion, there is no easy way to add new lines (no multi-line input field), hard to identify OP's comments in a thread, etc. In other words, I am generally wondering if there a…

> when creating a discussion, there is no easy way to add new lines (no multi-line input field)

What do you mean? The text field on https://news.ycombinator.com/submit is five lines and scrolls if you add more lines.

Re: Ask HN: Do you us any Hacker News extesions?

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Post by arunsathiya » Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 2:09 PM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #4

arunsathiya wrote: post #2

I had added a text to the `url` field when creating this post, but it appears it's not included. Let me paste it below. I have started to follow Hacker News more than ever, and a few challenges that I have are: no dark mode, when creating a discussion, there is no easy way to add new lines (no multi-line input field), hard to identify OP's comments in a thread, etc. In other words, I am generally wondering if there a…

> when creating a discussion, there is no easy way to add new lines (no multi-line input field) What do you mean? The text field on https://news.ycombinator.com/submit is five lines and scrolls if you add more lines.

Oh, thanks! I was using the bookmarklet to create text posts. The submit link that you shared does seem to have a multi-line input.