Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation

Re:Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting an... by prophetjohn on Sunday January 06, 2013 @07:30PM (#5018491)

I created this based on how difficult I found it to be to follow conversations here, especially long ones. It's always been fairly easy to keep track of replies to your own comments, but if you haven't commented in a thread or subthread, you're basically stuck counting timestamps. Since I've gotten it working it's made the browsing experience better. Please report any issues here or on github.

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Re:Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting an... by laurent123456 on Sunday January 06, 2013 @11:05PM (#5019250)

Great extension, I'll definitely be using it. If I can suggest something, I think it would be better to bold the unread comments (in the home page) only if you've actually open the link or read the previous comments. Otherwise it adds a lot of distraction on the page, and the bold links don't tell me whether I cared or didn't care about the associated news.

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Re:Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting an... by ivan_ah on Sunday January 06, 2013 @11:37PM (#5019369)

On that note I suggest that the UI should have the following three "states":

1/ New article, never read:

    22 comments

I know that they are all unread, don't need to tell me.

2/ Visited article

    25 comments (3 unread)

This is nicer IMHO than having another | separator. The 3 unread could be bold as it is now.

3/ Visited and all read:

    25 comments (0 unread)

But this time 0 unread does not need to be bold.

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Re:Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting an... by prophetjohn on Sunday January 06, 2013 @11:28PM (#5019342)

Great idea. I changed it to only be bold comments if the number of unread comments is greater than 0 and less than the total number of comments. It's been pushed to the Chrome Store. Thanks for the feedback!

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Re:Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting an... by noibl on Monday January 07, 2013 @03:25AM (#5020046)

Very nice. If it had a key handler to collapse the current comment with all replies[1], then I think it would be heaven. (Helps with long tangent threads at the top of the comment page.)

I know, this should be a pull request...

Edit: BTW, I just saw '(-1 unread)' which I'm guessing has something to do with showdead being on.

[1] http://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for-...

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Re:Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting an... by prophetjohn on Monday January 07, 2013 @02:40PM (#5022747)

-1 unread happens if you (or someone else) deletes a comment. It should fix itself after a page load.

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Re:Show HN: Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting an... by lmm on Monday January 07, 2013 @06:27AM (#5020508)

Could you make it keep the original titles for stories? The thing that makes it hardest for me to follow conversations is when a mod changes the name of the story.

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