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Better HN: Take HN discussions everywhere

32 points by shmichael 17y ago

I've recently released a new version of HN Comment Embed, a greasemonkey script that embeds HN discussions into the webpage being discussed. You simply browse to a posted page, and the HN panel pops up on the side. This version relies on searchYC as its main source, but also parses HN's newest posts page to attain full coverage. http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js

shmichael 17y ago
Clickable http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js
JayNeely 17y ago
Nice work! To increase adoption, I'd suggest adding a page to your site dedicated to it, with some screenshots of it in action.
aditya 17y ago
Very cool. Now I wish I could get chrome on OS X to enable extensions!
- shmichael 17y ago
  It won't work in Chrome until Google implement GM-specific functions (GM_xmlhttpRequest).
- tlrobinson 17y ago
  Extensions are enabled in recent Chromium Mac builds: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-mac/ http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-ma... However, I'm unable to get this particular user script to work in Chromium. Haven't looked at it carefully though.
wesley 17y ago
I made a site with bookmarklet quite some time ago that does something similar to that.. http://www.convotrack.com http://www.convotrack.com (was made more for twitter though)
- shmichael 17y ago
  That's a pretty clever implementation for cross-browser, cross-community support! Narrowing down to HN only and greasemonkey allowed me the following improvements: * While the bookmarklet has to be actively opened by the user, HNCE pops up as a small tab whenever it is relevant. * The comments in the bookmarklet are sorted chronologically (descending); Directly embedding the page with HNCE allows the hierarchy and ordering to be preserved. * Another benefit of directly embedding the HN page is the ability to contribute to the conversation and up-rank the article.
iterationx 17y ago
very cool. thank you.

32 points by shmichael 17y ago

shmichael 17y ago

Clickable http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js

JayNeely 17y ago

Nice work! To increase adoption, I'd suggest adding a page to your site dedicated to it, with some screenshots of it in action.

aditya 17y ago

Very cool. Now I wish I could get chrome on OS X to enable extensions!

shmichael 17y ago
It won't work in Chrome until Google implement GM-specific functions (GM_xmlhttpRequest).
tlrobinson 17y ago
Extensions are enabled in recent Chromium Mac builds: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-mac/ http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-ma... However, I'm unable to get this particular user script to work in Chromium. Haven't looked at it carefully though.

wesley 17y ago

I made a site with bookmarklet quite some time ago that does something similar to that.. http://www.convotrack.com http://www.convotrack.com (was made more for twitter though)

shmichael 17y ago
That's a pretty clever implementation for cross-browser, cross-community support! Narrowing down to HN only and greasemonkey allowed me the following improvements: * While the bookmarklet has to be actively opened by the user, HNCE pops up as a small tab whenever it is relevant. * The comments in the bookmarklet are sorted chronologically (descending); Directly embedding the page with HNCE allows the hierarchy and ordering to be preserved. * Another benefit of directly embedding the HN page is the ability to contribute to the conversation and up-rank the article.

iterationx 17y ago

very cool. thank you.