I love this extension for it's ability to highly new comments you haven't seen before. Only downside is it does not work for comments after the first page.
Refined Hacker News
11–20 of 43 posts
Re: Refined Hacker News
#12Feature request: color coding of usernames by reader-defined groups. User could specify group name/color via a CSS style with a common prefix. The extension would need to maintain a local database of usernames in each group. Enables visual highlighting of user comments and stories based on previous experience.
Re: Refined Hacker News
#13I've always wondered whether HN's "off-putting", "serious" interface (it is when you first see it) is an important factor in it not devolving into reddit.
Yep, as someone who came from Reddit, the culture here has definitely changed me for the better
Re: Refined Hacker News
#14I've always wondered whether HN's "off-putting", "serious" interface (it is when you first see it) is an important factor in it not devolving into reddit.
People have been accusing this place of devolving into Reddit so often for so long the mods specifically call it out in the guidelines as a semi-noob delusion and tell people to knock it off, which they never do.
The interface is merely simplistic, it's neither serious nor very off-putting. No more than, say, Craigslist anyway. For that matter, 4chan's interface is far more offputting, and its culture is far worse than Reddit.
Like, do people here really believe HN would instantly descend into chaos and madness if the layout used proper typography, modern HTML or (god forbid) AJAX?
Re: Refined Hacker News
#15The gifs in the readme showing the functionality you want to highlight is a nice touch. I wish more projects did that.
Re: Refined Hacker News
#16If I had one wish for a feature of this extension to be made available on HN then it would be: "Easily favorite items and comments" I really like the favourites feature and use it a lot but the original UI makes it really hard.
Wait, I actually had no idea that there was a favorite option.
Re: Refined Hacker News
#17If I had one wish for a feature of this extension to be made available on HN then it would be: "Easily favorite items and comments" I really like the favourites feature and use it a lot but the original UI makes it really hard.
What would make it better? Making the links work the same way as vote and flag?
I'm a bit disappointed in that feature. The intention was for users to browse others' favorites to find interesting things to read, but I've not seen any indication that it worked out that way.
Re: Refined Hacker News
#18Hi all, developer of Refined Hacker News here! Happy to see that it has been posted about again. I had initially posted it last year as a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173974 and my philosphy behind the extension (as mentioned in the my comment) is:
> There are many extensions out there that add quite a few features to Hacker News, but they also always do one thing, which I have realised, is a slippery slope: changing the minimalistic design and style of Hacker News.
> I created this extension with one thing in mind: I am NOT going to mess around with the overall design or style of Hacker News. It's sacrosanct.
Thanks, I'm up for discussion! :D
Re: Refined Hacker News
#19If I had one wish for a feature of this extension to be made available on HN then it would be: "Easily favorite items and comments" I really like the favourites feature and use it a lot but the original UI makes it really hard.
Wait, I actually had no idea that there was a favorite option.
It's my. . .favorite.
Re: Refined Hacker News
#20If I had one wish for a feature of this extension to be made available on HN then it would be: "Easily favorite items and comments" I really like the favourites feature and use it a lot but the original UI makes it really hard.
What would make it better? Making the links work the same way as vote and flag? I'm a bit disappointed in that feature. The intention was for users to browse others' favorites to find interesting things to read, but I've not seen any indication that it worked out that way.
I mostly use it to save things to come back to (bookmark). It would be better if I could favorite from the main thread, rather than going to the individual comment's page to favorite.