comments-owl-for-hacker-news

Very good. Worth it just for the custom CSS ability, to be honest, although the option to mute users comes a close second. "The friendly release notes" presumably refers to this page: https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/releas...

Hi HN, I needed a distraction from the new and scary thing I was working on this weekend, so I grabbed HN's stylesheet, extracted CSS variables for every colour it defined, then re-applied them back onto HN using its own selectors (plus some extras for bits of HN which are styled inline, and some separation between header and content styling), allowing it to be themed with variables. After using them to implement a dark mode (and a pure black variant for OLED), plugging everything into my existing HN browser extension which already lets you apply custom CSS, and making it handle theme switching via attributes on <html>, custom styles and theming are now manageable using it. There are a few examples in the friendly release notes above, with screenshots and copy-pasteable CSS. If you just want to grab the stylesheet which sets up the CSS va

If you want to give yourself a break from the flood of "AI" items on Hacker News until/unless you feel like reading them, the Comments Owl for Hacker News browser extension now adds a handy toggle to your right-click context menu on the main item list pages (or the extension popup, for mobile browsers) which filters out the most obvious "AI" items by title and site, using (editable) regular expressions which have been tested on the contents of these pages over the last week or so. The extension's primary functionality is to make it easier to follow comment threads across repeat visits, and catch up with recent comments, but it also offers other UI + UX tweaks, such as muting and noting users, and tweaks to the UI on mobile. Release notes and screenshots for new functionality: https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/releas...

Comments Owl for Hacker News has a block-this-user feature. Available for the major browsers. https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/releas...

Oops, fixed: https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/blob/m...

I couldn't find any licensing information in your repo <https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news>; is it just source available? In contrast to https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/22.12... which is MIT

My HN css doesn't even display usernames. I don't find discussions acrimonious/flame war. But feel free not to engage, I'm not out to make your life difficult/less enjoyable on a weekend. Anyway There's a mute feature here. https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/ But you posted this article, I have opinion, which is not directed solely at you but others interested (and especially not interested) in reading. If you're going to post blobby/wonky discourse piece that needs to be called out on, I'll criticize the piece accordingly. I'll take effort to not directly to _your_ comments from now on.

> None, though I might be swayed if there were something that muted or, failing that, blocked users. Comments Owl for Hacker News: https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/ Blocking doesn't seem to work on the new comments page, though.

Comments Owl for Hacker News [1] adds a mute control to comments and user profiles which lets you do this. If you want to roll a quick version of your own, once you've identified rows containing comments you want to block, you need to hide all subsequent rows which have a higher indent. I see there's now an "indent" attribute in the DOM which would make this even easier. [1] https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news#commen...

Hacker News has one of the designs of all time - I initially made this extension because I wanted to be able to follow comment threads across multiple visits _without_ searching for "hour(s) ago" and "minutes ago", while preserving the UI we all know. This major release adds a Safari version (it can also be installed on Kiwi Browser or Firefox Beta on Android) and mobile support for the first time, with specific UX tweaks for the mobile breakpoint version, such as being able make list screen flagging require confirmation, improving the header somewhat and increasing the distance between the upvote and downvote buttons. Since its first Show HN 4 years ago, it now also has user management features - you can add notes to other users which will be displayed next to their comments, and you can also mute people if you feel the need to. If you h

Since lots of people are accidentally flagging on mobile and I'm currently revisiting my Hacker News extension to add a Safari version, I'm adding something which will let you choose your preferred solution for this (hide the flag control or require a confirm): https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl/issues/14#issuecomm...

Definitely not perfect. The default "collapse comment" buttons being right-aligned is pure insanity, IMO. They should be left-aligned so they're all in line with each other as you scroll down the page, so you barely have to move your mouse. Fortunately this extension[1] takes care of that. [1] https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl/ Also, proper hyperlink support in comments would be appreciated.

For keeping track of replies to my own comments, as previously mentioned there's the threads link at the top of the page, as well as https://hnreplies.com/ and https://hnnotify.xyz/. You can also use https://hnrss.github.io/ or http://hnapp.com/ to make RSS feeds of various types. If there's a post that is particularly interesting and you want to be able to keep abreast of new comments in it, I've found the HN Comments Owl[0] browser extension particularly useful for this. I bookmark the page, and when I return to it I see new comments highlighted. [0] https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl

I like HN Comments Owl: https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl