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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 make the text of old comments a light shade of grey, and the new comments normal black. Similar to how a link will have a different color once it has been visited.

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The colour is actually the same as your HN colour that you can set in your settings page.

Making read comments a lighter shade of grey would, unfortunately, not go well with how HN handles comments with <= 0 score.

If you have any more ideas please share them, I know this isn't the optimal solution right now, but I can't find anything better ...

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 values for read and unread.

Maybe I'll make it so that you can configure it, yes. So you'll be able to set the colour of the font and select whether you wish for a box to appear around unread comments.

I'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 without being too obtrusive.

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