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By embed I meant to embed the content; I've heard from quite a few people that they love that they can personalize it with simple CSS. I am not sure if this is

By embed I meant to embed the content; I've heard from quite a few people that they love that they can personalize it with simple CSS. I am not sure if this is a problem from me not being native (I'm Spanish) or just a special case/extreme use of the word embed. In both cases, embedding the functionality is not a possible due to common, sane web attack concerns; if I could allow you to change it then I could change it myself which would mean big trouble. What twitter does is keeping the control+developing their own code, an API/library that HN doesn't have available. And of course I'm now going down the road of asking for people's username/password of the different networks. Also something has to be said about the advantages of thin clients/strong back-ends, which means standardizing the response from https://comments.network/ https://comments.network/ of the different networks.

Jugurtha 10y ago
>By embed I meant to embed the content; I've heard from quite a few people that they love that they can personalize it with simple CSS. Well, then disregard what I said. What I wrote was the opinion from an end-user/page-reader perspective, not from the person who'll handle tweak the styling. >I am not sure if this is a problem from me not being native (I'm Spanish) I wouldn't be able to tell, not being native myself (I'm Algerian). >What twitter does is keeping the control+developing their own code, an API/library that HN doesn't have available. And of course I'm now going down the road of asking for people's username/password of the different networks. Pardon me, but have you looked at this https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api ? I'm sure you are aware Reddit has an API. Again, I'm sorry for failing to see what's the very particular problem to be solved, not being a developer and all.
- franciscop 10y ago
  They have APIs that other developers can use to build things, but not for embedding content into the pages itself (I haven't searched so much about Reddit but I have about HN). So basically these libraries are for pulling data, not for pulling functionality. In fact I am using one of them, Algolia on the back-end to pull the data. For truly embed it we'd need for HN to provide this functionality with some Javascript library/iframe/other, which they currently don't do.

Jugurtha 10y ago

>By embed I meant to embed the content; I've heard from quite a few people that they love that they can personalize it with simple CSS. Well, then disregard what I said. What I wrote was the opinion from an end-user/page-reader perspective, not from the person who'll handle tweak the styling. >I am not sure if this is a problem from me not being native (I'm Spanish) I wouldn't be able to tell, not being native myself (I'm Algerian). >What twitter does is keeping the control+developing their own code, an API/library that HN doesn't have available. And of course I'm now going down the road of asking for people's username/password of the different networks. Pardon me, but have you looked at this https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api ? I'm sure you are aware Reddit has an API. Again, I'm sorry for failing to see what's the very particular problem to be solved, not being a developer and all.

franciscop 10y ago
They have APIs that other developers can use to build things, but not for embedding content into the pages itself (I haven't searched so much about Reddit but I have about HN). So basically these libraries are for pulling data, not for pulling functionality. In fact I am using one of them, Algolia on the back-end to pull the data. For truly embed it we'd need for HN to provide this functionality with some Javascript library/iframe/other, which they currently don't do.