Great Userscript for HN: HN Toolkit

#1

Post by Rabidmonkey1 » Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 2:04 AM UTC

Just wanted to make the members of the HN community who didn't already know about this great userscript aware of it's existence. It lets you save stories, integrates a search bar, and view stories in split view, among other useful features.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

Re: Great Userscript for HN: HN Toolkit

#2

Post by pizza » Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 2:07 AM UTC

Thanks, dude.

Re: Great Userscript for HN: HN Toolkit

#3

Post by TheElder » Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 3:23 AM UTC

A clickable link: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

Re: Great Userscript for HN: HN Toolkit

#4

Post by _cbsz » Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 3:54 AM UTC

Guidelines: "Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead."

Re: Great Userscript for HN: HN Toolkit

#5

Post by Rabidmonkey1 » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 2:31 PM UTC

_cbsz wrote: post #4

Guidelines: "Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead."

Sorry - it was just that HN recognized the link as being submitted before, but it had an awful and completely irrelevant title, so no one would know what it was unless they went hunting for this amazing script at random; unless they knew it existed in the first place and went looking for it.

In other words, it completely defeated the purpose of sharing the link, because they would have only known about it if it was there. A true catch-22.

All I wanted to do was let HN readers know how to enhance their user experience here on the site in the best way possible.

Perhaps, however, the real question should be "Why doesn't HN have features like this integrated from the start up?" How come some scripting hackers can integrate something like a basic search function into the site, while HN can't seem to do so itself?