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Show HN: Increase your readability and productivity with this simple extension
- teddyh 7y ago…for Chrome only.
- ainiriand 7y ago... because Firefox includes something very similar already.
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- ryzalyusoff 7y agoFirefox and Safari version will be coming soon :)
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- ryzalyusoff 7y agoWith just one single click, you can remove clutter, ads and distractions from any articles, thus improving your readability and productivity. Here’s the highlight of what this extension can do/offers: It comes with dyslexia support, text annotating and highlighting, text-to-speech and many other customization tools. Here’s the quick highlights of what it has and can do: - Distraction-free and ad-free "Reader Mode" - Theme customization - Custom CSS - Print pages - Fullscreen mode - Auto-run ability - Deletion of unwanted elements - Save edited pages - Share To Twitter - Dyslexia Fonts - Dyslexia Ruler - Text To Speech - Outlines - Text annotating and highlighting - Note List - Auto-scroll functionality - Dark Panel Mode - Google Search - Google Translate You can use "hackernews20" code at checkout to get 20% discount :)
- onreact 7y agoSounds good. Do you plan to support Firefox as well? I don't use Google spyware - only for testing things.
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoYes Firefox and Safari version will be coming soon! :)
- kseistrup 7y agoNice. I purchased the extension, and then stopped using chrome.
- ajot 7y agoFirefox does have a built-in reader mode, although it doesn't have this many features. Have you tried it?
- onreact 7y agoReally neat. Thank you for taking care of accessibility issues as well. I don't have Dyslexia but when having migraines I can't read online properly anymore so that will help. I just wonder whether it's worth the fuss as I have Reader View in Firefox already.
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoNo worries at all! Ah I see, let me know if there's any any specific features that you want. IMO, you should give it a try as it is more than just a Reader View like the one in firefox as it has many more features, especially the Dyslexia features that you just mention :)
- lucasverra 7y agodo you plan to port the extension to FF ? I like their baked in feature but yours take it to another level.
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoYes, Firefox and Safari version will be coming soon! :)
- 1hakr 7y agoLone it. The ad-free/ distraction free experience for reading articles that I have been waiting for!!
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoThanks man!
- mddanishyusuf 7y agoI already know about this extension and it's worth to buy. I'm using it when I love to read stories. Awesome.
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoThanks man!
- mikaelmello 7y agoHey, loved it! Just a nitpick: when trying to test it with a Medium article, I was already a few paragraphs down when I clicked on "Not interested" (for now) in the popup. This scrolled the page back to the top.
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoThank you! And oh, i missed that that's for letting me know will fix it asap :)
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- unityByFreedom 7y agois this for real? an ad for a paid extension is #1 on hn? also with tons of comments missing articles? Come on..
- martin_a 7y agoCapitalism, fuck yeah! :-)
- unityByFreedom 7y agoHow is capitalism responsible for lousy actors? Plenty of propaganda came from communism as I recall.
- frockington1 7y agoHacker news strictly adheres to the Reddit mantra that USA/Capitalism === bad, EU/Socialism === good.
- martin_a 7y agoWhenever something about social systems in the EU comes up it's just the other way around. Strange...
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. That's definitely not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- oefrha 7y agoAll these unsubstantial “I love it” comments are indeed very suspicious. Not to mention many browsers have this feature built in. (I know this post is treading the line on insinuations about shilling. Sorry dang.)
- mtm7 7y agoI’ve been using this extension for a couple weeks and it does everything I want it to. My favorite/most-used feature is the customizable font and background colors. I’m glad you give your users granular control. Btw, you’re on the front page of HN :)
- unityByFreedom 7y agoHave you really only been on HN for 25 days? The number of young accounts which don't appear as green in this thread is staggering.
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoGlad to hear that! More features will come soon! :)
- cvs268 7y agoIs there an option to justified-align the declutterred text? If not, can you add one? (Sorry, i don't have chrome to try it out. Justified alignment is what I miss in Firefox Reader mode.)
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoAh not at the moment. But yes, will add it in the next release :)
- cvs268 7y agoMeanwhile, i finally got off my lazy ass and figured out how to add justified-alignment to the Firefox Reader View. NOTE: Involves restarting Firefox. 1. Locate the Firefox profile directory on your system. On Windows, this is typically a directory like : C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile-directory> The definitive method to locate the profile directory would be to visit the about:support page in Firefox, and check the value of the property Profile Folder. 2. Within the above identified profile directory, open the sub-directory chrome. If a chrome sub-directory does NOT exist within the profile directory, create it. 3. In the above chrome directory, create an empty file userContent.css. 4. Open the above userContent.css and add the following lines to it : .moz-reader-content { text-align: justify; } 5. Force custom stylesheets Visit the about:config page in Firefox, search for the property toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets, and ensure it is toggled to True. 6. Restart Firefox. 7. Open a page, switch to reader mode, and enjoy the justified text!! \(^.^)/
- franciscop 7y agoThis functionality has been baked in Firefox for a long time and I use it quite often. Not only makes the ads and other clutter disappear, but it also removes most of the "disable your adblock" unclosable popups. It is definitely one of the super-nice things to have baked in straight in the browser, and probably one of the major differences I see between Chrome and Firefox in day-to-day usage. I just wish that somehow it was persistent for certain rules, but I can see how that is a slippery slope.
- oefrha 7y agoChrome has had a builtin DOM distiller for a while (not sure if still guarded by an experimental flag, on my phone now so can’t check), but it’s primitive and worst of all reloads the page on exit.
- mtm7 7y agoI can confirm that it's still loaded by an experimental flag. As a word of warning to anyone who wants to try it: the design isn't suited for reading at length (120 character line width, set in Courier). It's really not that great. Firefox and Safari have decent reading modes, though.
- oefrha 7y ago> 120 character line width, set in Courier Um, it’s not? Chrome 78 on macOS here, text is rendered in 14px Roboto, content box width is 75% (on 2560px viewport). I find it fairly pleasant to read, my only problem is page reloading on exit as I already mentioned. Edit: The mode is gone after updating to 79, seems to be gated by a command line switch now. What the hell.
- mtm7 7y agoAh, I stand corrected. The content box width is indeed based on the viewport size. My text, however, is still rendered in 14px Courier on macOS (and even given a .monospace class), so I'm not sure what's going on there. I just updated to Chrome 79 and now the distilled mode is gone. For anyone who's looking on how to re-enable it, here's a thread: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/22576539 https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/22576539
- bananamerica 7y agoSeems nice. 1. When I click on "not interested", the page jumps to the top 2. Vimium does not work on pages altered by the extension. Sadly, that's a dealbreaker for me. 3. Maybe the icon is too similar to outline.com.
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoThanks for the feedback! Will get it sorted asap! :)
- pxtail 7y agoThis example from homepage which shows techcrunch article side by side with plugin's output doesn't look good to me. To be honest I'm finding TC article formatting and font size much better to read (ads are not visible with ublock), in addition publication date and author is displayed.
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoAh i see. Ok, will consider changing the example soon. But if you are using the plugin, you could cuztomize everything (fonts/background/width/colors etc.), and also you could turn the date, author and original url on/off.
- rodcoelho 7y agohow did you come to this pricing model? I'm confused about why you chose to make the pro a $20 one-time payment, but the education is $99/month
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoHi the PRO version is $20(or $15 now), as it is a one time fee for a limited license, eg. 1/5/10. Meanwhile the education is $99/month as it gives you Unlimited Licence.
- AndrewStephens 7y agoSafari has this feature built in as well. It is particularly useful on mobile devices. It will even follow Next Page type links to condense a multi-page article into a single scrolling page. I find it somewhat ironic that Reader Mode's own site is filled with large images, tiny pop-out boxes, and a tweet carousel. But it certainly isn't the worst product website I have seen.
- gtsteve 7y agoI like this extension, nice work. One thing I couldn't find was activation keyboard shortcuts, and the ability to dismiss it by hitting esc. It'd be nice if it had that.
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoThanks! You can edit the shortcut by going to chrome://extensions/shortcuts . But oh yeah, will add esc feature asap thanks for letting me know! :)
- thrwaway69 7y agohttps://ibb.co/XC8h2gq https://ibb.co/XC8h2gq There is some manipulation going on here. This was posted in other places as well.
- gman83 7y agoWhat tweeting out that your product is on HN isn't exactly "manipulation"
- dang 7y agoAsking for upvotes is against the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Soliciting booster comments is even more against the rules.
- gnicholas 7y agoThe font is not called "OpenDyslexics", it's "OpenDyslexic". Also, it's kind of odd to say you support multiple dyslexic-friendly fonts when it's really just one font in bold/italics/mono. Perhaps some people would consider mono to be its own font (though I've never known anyone who preferred OD Mono, and I work in the accessibility world). But for sure bold and italic are not considered to be separate fonts by lay people.
- ryzalyusoff 7y agoThanks for pointing that out! Will make changes asap! :)
- 2jaer 7y agoSeems great, trying it now. A good few of these comments and upvotes seem to be from ops friends. (Based off a quick twitter search). Nothing wrong with that
- dang 7y agoYes, there's something with getting friends to upvote and (especially) to post comments in threads. We want people to upvote and comment because they ran across something that they personally found intellectually interesting, not because a friend has something to promote. Promotional use of HN undermines the intended use of the site, which is why these behaviors are against the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html