Do not miss posts from your favorite people on HN

Posted by doganengin on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:50PM
from the self-post dept.

Hi folks,

I wrote a browser extension that highlights/tags the posts from your favorite HN’ers.

Go to the profile of someone and assign a tag to the user. All future posts from that user will be marked/tagged on HN going forward. It is super easy and will help you follow your favorite people in HN.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-cat/hhiomokjlngphblpfnccjckmkcpjjfmb

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/tr/firefox/addon/social-cat/

Cheers

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Re:Do not miss posts from your favorite people on HN by eat_veggies on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:53PM (#26306573)

This would be better as a Show HN post :)

P.S. I built something very similar years ago: https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends

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Re:Do not miss posts from your favorite people on HN by crazypython on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:23PM (#26307028)

This would be better as a site (not a chrome extension– too much friction) that lets you follow your favorite HN users and see their posts, filtering by score optionally.

"Favoriting" a comment or HN post on HN ( a native HN feature ) could automatically follow the user. Just enter your username and go.

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Re:Do not miss posts from your favorite people on HN by giantg2 on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:50PM (#26308211)

I guess I'm a pessimist, but won't this help people put you on a list so that they can find your posts/comments to grudge-downvote you?

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Re:Do not miss posts from your favorite people on HN by muzani on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:26PM (#26311241)

Most sites with voting have some mechanism to detect and prevent that behavior. HN has some clever features so I'd be surprised if they don't.

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