NINilsIRL·Dec 20, 2019
This seems to be present as well in the code this was forked from:
https://github.com/timdavies/hnprofile
In Show HN: HN Card, Hacker News Profile Overlaytimdavies
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timdavies / hnprofile
hnprofile
Browser extension for Chrome, Safari and Firefox that adds profile overlays to Hacker News usernames
3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
9GitHub stars
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What it is
Browser extension for Chrome, Safari and Firefox that adds profile overlays to Hacker News usernames
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Where it is used
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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-05-07 18:08:53 UTC to 2019-12-20 20:13:37 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesAre there any fundamental differences between this and the fork (https://github.com/timdavies/hnprofile)?
In Show HN: HN Card, Hacker News Profile Overlay> Pocket was added internally and not as an extension because it was easier.
There's the problem you need to fix. It should be just as easy (easier, frankly) to build this as an add-on. I recently built a small extension[1] that targets Firefox, Chrome and Safari (with the same code-base) and found Firefox to be - by far - the most annoying to deal with. It's sad that the browser that championed add-ons is such a pain to develop for now.
[1] http://github.com/timdavies/hnprofile
In User feedback on Pocket submitted to MozillaShow HN: See profile info when you hover over HN usernames
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