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Re:Show HN: Flattehn: A Chrome extension to hide points / us... by Groxx on Sunday December 12, 2010 @01:03AM (#1996595)
I've got to add a page-specific button, to turn it on and off. Poking at it now, as I hadn't thought of that purpose :) I think that requires "tabs" permissions though, which warns everyone it has access to "your entire browsing history".

edit: yep, it will. I'll get on it, though.

edit2: think I should have the switch just show names? Or the points as well?

edit3: Another idea: double-click on text, and if it matches a name, it'll reveal and highlight. How's that sound?

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Re:Show HN: Flattehn: A Chrome extension to hide points / us... by zbanks on Sunday December 12, 2010 @01:08AM (#1996603)
You could embed a link into the page and/or add a keyboard shortcut.

Another idea: don't censor the author & the user's own posts.

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Re:Show HN: Flattehn: A Chrome extension to hide points / us... by Groxx on Sunday December 12, 2010 @01:14AM (#1996617)
Your own should be left alone (are they hidden?). Author I think I'll leave for a future version, where I'll have loads of options (what to hide, when, etc), and I'll add that to the list.
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Re:Show HN: Flattehn: A Chrome extension to hide points / us... by zepolen on Sunday December 12, 2010 @01:55AM (#1996668)
Maybe show censored names until the vote, either G*x or even User 1, User 2 etc.
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Re:Show HN: Flattehn: A Chrome extension to hide points / us... by Groxx on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:13AM (#1996691)
Definitely further down the line if I do, but I'll keep it in mind.

What I'm doing right now is really simple - I'm just tagging the names / points with CSS classes, and then hiding. Up-voting changes the comment's class. Clicking the page-action removes / re-makes the CSS rules. Re-writing and being able to restore means storing the data somewhere, quite a bit more complex than just labeling the DOM.

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