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The other side of Hacker News - A User Experience Experiment

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29 pointsvolida20 comments

How to instantly improve the Hacker News user experience in one step: increase the font size.

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After using it for a half an hour or so, it would seem to me that the timer for the user pop-up on hover is much too short, I get it by accident all the time. In addition to a different default, perhaps it should be your first option item.

Great work though!

You are right, probably I will increase the timer.

When you install the extension it warns you that it needs access to "Your browsing history". I can understand why it needs your HN data, but why your browsing history? (or is that message simply misleading)

This is weird to me too, because I dont request permission for the history. I will look it up.

Any chrome extension which uses a 'background page' is listed as accessing your browsing history. This is because a background page (think of it as a daemon) knows which tabs you open and where you navigate and could theoretically store or transmit that data.

Could this cause problems the way that hnreputation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=789469) also did?

are you aware of the practises of that script?

I do take a provision to delay 1200msec the request to the Newest page.

Could you include a larger screenshot? I can make sense of what's going on in the current one, but just barely.

edit: Ah, the larger versions are on the Chrome extension page.

Does not play well with AutoPager Chrome extension, though ( after the second page).

Edit: Reply to an existing comment brings a new page as well.

I haven't changed yet the reply functionality, only "add comment".

Oh, ok. ANd I presume you've added the functionality only on the home page ?

Yes, I thought I shouldn't interfere with the normal behaviour, when the page is viewed normally.

I like it! Clicking on an article was a really pleasant surprise. What drove you to write this?

Thanks! I wondered how much it would change HN, just by adding a few features. Then it felt really useful, and I decided to release it.

pretty interesting, but i think I found a couple of strange things worth reporting (hovering on your own user generates a "messy" tooltip, some race conditions seem to appear). Where would you like them to be reported properly? :)

Thanks for trying it. I was going to put it on GitHub later. I will announce the link later.

This extension is awesome. Definitely keeping this, very time saving.

thanks

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