PS. Link to the scans: https://archive.org/details/wpw-1991-1992-1993/WPW-1991-01/
The link is in reference to "I found scans of his section on archive.org, including the issue where he announces the contest, but I couldn't find my particular contribution".
Perhaps they don't want to mark out the OP as "special" to the resulting conversation, but it would help make the situation here clearer.
// ==UserScript==
// @name HN OP highlight
// @version 0.1
// @description Find OP username and change username color to blue
// @match https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=*
// @grant none
// @run-at document-end
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
// get OP 'userid' from class 'hnuser' in post subtext
const opUsername = document.querySelector('span.subline a.hnuser')?.getAttribute('href');
// Match other instances of same 'userid' in 'hnuser' class elsewhere in page
if (opUsername) {
const opHighlight = document.createElement('style');
opHighlight.textContent = `
/* Post header username */
span.subline a.hnuser[href="${opUsername}"],
/* Comment header username */
span.comhead a.hnuser[href="${opUsername}"] {
color: #2749F5 !important;
}
`;
document.head.appendChild(opHighlight);
}
})();I'm sending this thread to the admins as a feature request.