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

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

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!

[ Parent | on HN ]