This looks great, like the start of a "Reddit Enhancement Suite" for hacker news. It would be great if it also worked with hckrnews.com as I find that to be my main interface for browsing the day's discussions.
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#22If 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.
That I think is part of it, another is it's not really obvious whether it means 'save it for me' or 'show others I like this (and also save it)'. The latter overlaps with upvoting but then you're in a different kind of bind because you can't show individual votes publicly since you don't show votes. It ends up in a kind of conceptual twilight zone, even if the UI was clearer. A private 'like' and a public 'like' might just be a bit too much.
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#23Very nice.
I would like to be able to collapse entire thread by clicking on its line, even when I scrolled. For that lines should be visible for entire thread duration, not only original comment (like new reddit).
I would also like to see autorefresh on topic itself.
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#24I'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 th…
Its not just simplistic, its unusable.
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#25I'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 th…
It's more inviting then, so I think it would draw more randoms. Now it's basically home to people who know the value already and choose to join because that's what matters to them.
That's at least why I come here. I hope that's a motivator until the lights go out one day. Without a doubt the most consistently intelligent conversations happen here.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 th…
It's more inviting then, so I think it would draw more randoms. Now it's basically home to people who know the value already and choose to join because that's what matters to them. That's at least why I come here. I hope that's a motivator until the lights go out one day. Without a doubt the most consistently intelligent conversations happen here.
"Randoms" wouldn't hang out on a site called "Hacker News" to begin with, much even know that it exists. A more "inviting" layout wouldn't change that.
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#27Very nice. I would like to be able to collapse entire thread by clicking on its line, even when I scrolled. For that lines should be visible for entire thread duration, not only original comment (like new reddit). I would also like to see autorefresh on topic itself.
Also, the linked area of the line is too thin - I can barely click on it.
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#28Feature 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.
If there's an extension, maybe we could have a collaborative tagging system so we can see what other people have labelled the author as?
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#29Feature 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.
If there's an extension, maybe we could have a collaborative tagging system so we can see what other people have labelled the author as?
Potentially, although that gets into social networks, feedback loops, status dynamics, information warfare, reputation systems, voting rings, sock puppets and other fun topics :)
Step 1 would be private lists.
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#30Respect for linking directly to the visual demo.