c17r/myHNE

Description

Make Y Combinator's Hacker News website just a little friendlier to use. Like many others, I enjoy the articles and even comments on Hacker News. Out of all the community sites, their moderators do a great job at keeping the signal-to-noise ration high. The downside to Hacker News is the site feels like it was built in the 90s: the ability to collapse threads was added only in 2016.

Enhancements added:

• Keyboard navigation of index and item pages
• Additional thread functions (Expand All, Top Level) use Hacker New's built-in functions so everything is saved server-side
• Information for our enhancements (comment count, last ID, etc) are stored in Chrome's sync storage is everything stays in sync across machines.

Inspiration and bits shamelessly stolen from

• HNES
• Redit Enhancement Suite

Dev

• Test page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240811
• Test page for highlight-op: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303346
• Test page for parent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326792#13326952
• Test page for performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13301832

Features:

• Index pages
  • New style
  • New menu/style to access all pages
  • New comment count
  • Keyboard controls
    • j - next story
    • k - previous story
    • o - open story, according to user preferences
• Story pages

  • Expand All Comments (saved on HN side)

  • Top Level Comments (saved on HN side)

  • [/] Inline commenting

  • Parent hover

  • Highlight comments from poster

  • Mark new comments (stored in Chrome profile)

  • Keyboard controls

    • j - next non-collapsed comment
    • k - previous non-collapsed comment
    • n - next non-collapsed thread
    • u - previous non-collapsed thread
    • h - upvote
    • r - reply

    Future?

    • f - flag (not enough karma to test)
    • d - downvote (not enough karma to test)
    • t - first non-collapsed comment
    • b - last non-collapsed comment
    • p - show parent
    • ? - next non-collapsed new comment
    • o - open links in the current selected comment
• User Tagging
  • upvote count for user (stored in Chrome profile)
  • tag note for user (stored in Chrome profile)
• Settings
  • Opener Behavior: story, comment, story/comment, comment/story
  • Opener Style: new window or new tabs
  • New Comment Count: show/hide zeros

Future:

• More than just Chrome
• Async loading modular system for functionality, like RES
• Hightlight new stories on homepage?