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How HN took it
1 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Design: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea, installed and liked
From 2 comments
How does it work in the long run? Am I going to store the entire HN database in Chrome, until my computer slows down to a crawl? Otherwise, pretty cool. Installed.
swombat on HNLove it... but it'd be much less intrusive if you displayed the red border around new comments the second time you visit a comment thread. So the extensions would only change the…
cj on HN
Hashing approach to detect edited comments is clever
From 2 comments
The hash approach has the advantage of marking edited comments as unread? Perhaps you could do both and mark edited comments with a different color.
jules on HNYou can store the highest comment id for each article: any comment with an (id > stored highest id for the current article) is new. The hash thing is interesting for detecting…
bambax on HN
Objections
Bright red outline is jarring and ugly
From 2 comments
I like the idea of this, but I find the red outline to be jarring and well quite frankly ugly. I think a more visually pleasing way of showing new vs old comments would be to…
chapel on HNLove it... but it'd be much less intrusive if you displayed the red border around new comments the second time you visit a comment thread. So the extensions would only change the…
cj on HN
May store too much data over time
From 1 comment
How does it work in the long run? Am I going to store the entire HN database in Chrome, until my computer slows down to a crawl? Otherwise, pretty cool. Installed.
swombat on HN
Requests
Use comment IDs instead of md5 hashes
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Interesting. Looking at the source I see that you calculate and store an md5 hash for each comment: ``` var commentContentMd5 = md5($this.find('table td:eq(2)…
bambax on HN> but once you vote on a comment that id is gone The score is in a span that has the same id: ``` <span id="score_1944875">3 points</span> ``` > if a comment changes it is marked…
bambax on HN
Configurable colours or styles for read and unread comments
From 1 comment
I would just make it a lighter shade, but not as light as a <= 0 score comment. Those happen to be hard to read. Maybe you could give the option for the user to set their own CSS…
chapel on HN
Show new-since-last-viewed state only for revisited threads
From 2 comments
Thank you! If I haven't read any of the comments on a post, there is no need to show me that they are new. The entire thread is new, I know that. In essence, the extension gives…
raganwald on HNLove it... but it'd be much less intrusive if you displayed the red border around new comments the second time you visit a comment thread. So the extensions would only change the…
cj on HN
Questions
How does storage grow over the long run?
From 1 comment
How does it work in the long run? Am I going to store the entire HN database in Chrome, until my computer slows down to a crawl? Otherwise, pretty cool. Installed.
swombat on HN
Alternatives named
hckrnews extension left-border highlighting
From 2 comments
This functionality has been available in my hckrnews extension for a while. It works only for individual item pages, since it tracks (in localstorage) the last comment id for…
wvl on HNI've been using a simple left border to highlight new comments in my extension (http://hckrnews.com/about.html), and I've found it works pretty well at highlighting new comments…
wvl on HN