caroherm

I've been thinking about doing a writeup, the thing that's holding me back is that there are some pretty good ones out there already, like this one (https://blog.lateral.io/2016/04/create-chrome-extension-modi...)

I'm glad you like foureyes! It was a few years before Warby Parker started doing this: (https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/07/warby-parker-recommends-...)

This is EXCELLENT, thank you so much for this. I'm absolutely going to implement these changes.

Interesting feedback, I will definitely take all of this under consideration for if and when I release a second version. It would be great to include more customizability, especially since it being a chrome plugin opens the door for all sorts of possibilities. Thanks so much!

I thought about this and wound up changing the wording, the changes should be live with the next update within the next hour

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Thanks so much! I'm glad you decided to install it, feel free to let me know if you see anything that could be improved. I was inspired by the color scheme from Bubblesort's "Git it Gurl" shirts (https://shop.bubblesort.io/products/git-it-gurl-shirt?varian...), with the nice splash of blue-purple on the pink background.

Glad to hear it!

Thanks!

Thank you! :D

I originally was going to just do this but didn't realize you needed a certain amount of Karma

Sweet, will definitely look into this.

Thank you! :D

Thanks so much! I'm planning to clean up the repo later tonight so it's better organized.

I'll look into it, thanks for the info!

this is my favorite observation :)

Awesome!

^^

Mostly because I'm familiar with developing Chrome extensions, and appreciate the freedom and ease of distribution. I also used a bit of Javascript to rework some of the text areas, like the bar at the top. And injecting the favicon is done in JS as well.

I'll look into custom CSS extensions though! I'm not familiar with them. The repo is at https://github.com/carolinehermans/HNcute – it could definitely be organized better, I didn't expect to be sharing!

I'll look for remaining orange/red areas and push an update later tonight. Good call on the font sizes! I used Open Sans because I wanted things to stay simple and easy to read, but it might be nice to look into something else in the future.

Glad to hear it!

What is the background story for this article?

Good question. I definitely thought about just hiding all the views. I was interested in creating the illusion that all the videos are super popular – I feel like seeing a random really high view count creates false excitement.

I think a view-count-less YouTube would be really interesting, but more uncomfortable in a way. How do we know what's "the best" if the numerical values are totally gone? I wonder if it's more comfortable to know you're being lied to than to have no view count at all.