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Hah! I got a really cool little icon that looks almost like the cassette tape pirate logo of Piratbyrån back in the day. I have old t-shirts with that logo. MA
by INTPenis 5y ago
Hah! I got a really cool little icon that looks almost like the cassette tape pirate logo of Piratbyrån back in the day. I have old t-shirts with that logo.
MAKE. THIS. PERMANENT!
On the functional side, this really helps you see who is who in a long threaded discussion. Your eye is much quicker at following the little color icons than their names.
- hwers 5y agoI'm gonna go ahead and vote no on this.
- INTPenis 5y agoBut your avatar looks like a Ninja Turtle with shades on. You should be enjoying this. :)
- k4rli 5y agoLikely still traumatized by existence of new reddit UI. Old appears to be better.
- neogodless 5y agoWow, I thought it was a green camper van!
- foxhop 5y ago
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoIt should be fairly straightforward to turn this into a browser addon, give users a choice and offload the people behind HN.
- danuker 5y agoOr even easier to make a userscript: https://openuserjs.org/ https://openuserjs.org/
- edmcnulty101 5y agoWhat is a user script?
- danuker 5y agoA JavaScript script injected into a website by the user (as opposed to the website).
- hybridtupel 5y agoI see what you did there ;)
- libele 5y ago// ==UserScript== // @name HN Avatars in 357 bytes // @description Annotated avatars on all HN comments. // @author tomxor (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomxor) // @namespace https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668137 // @include https://news.ycombinator.com/item* // @include https://news.ycombinator.com/user* // @grant none // @version 1.0.0 // ==/UserScript== [js goes here]
- libele 5y agohttps://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/441566-hn-avatars-in-362-bytes https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/441566-hn-avatars-in-362-b...
- samelawrence 5y ago
- WithinReason 5y ago> Hah! I got a really cool little icon that looks almost like the cassette tape pirate logo of Piratbyrån back in the day. I think it's a skeleton holding his arms up! edit: Looks like I'm some green bug-monster
- bertman 5y ago>MAKE. THIS. PERMANENT! I second this. (Also I wanted to see what my avatar looks like, sry)
- david927 5y agoHow dare you! Edit: ooooh, mine's a beetle!
- gaetgu 5y agoTruly unacceptable. (I look like an alien head!)
- ChrisClark 5y agoBut Space Invaders is a classic!
- amanzi 5y agoOnly commenting so I can see my avatar...
- riidom 5y agoHow dare you, you cyan flower vase on wheels :) I'm a spiky small yellow watchtower, yay.
- jimmydorry 5y agoAnd me? A green butterfly?
- riidom 5y agoYup. Or a trophy/ a goblet maybe? Not sure if green stands for 1st, 2nd or 3rd price though, up to you to decide :)
- MisterSandman 5y agoI do feel like HN needs avatars of some kind... just don't know if they should be customizable or fixed (like this one).
- MisterSandman 5y agoLooks like I got blue transformer/reinhardt
- INTPenis 5y agoDefinitely not customizable, that's chaos. Unique, fixed little color doodads make it easier to see who's who in a thread.
- Duralias 5y agoWith how pretty much every platform has "avatars", that the user can customize, I think it would be fun just getting one assigned to you. Edit: Huh, I got an alien house. Reminds me of some game.
- sexangel 5y agoI'm for the fixed avatars. We are all born with certain unchangeable aspects.
- MisterSandman 5y agoHey man, we were just discussing avatars, not trying to create an existential crisis.
- SamBam 5y agoPerhaps I'm a little fighter jet from an 8-bit arcade?
- deutschew 5y agoi love it, its very cute, reminds me of the old MSX
- trevorhinesley 5y agoOr a guy with a tophat! Dig it.
- the_doctah 5y agoYours reminds me of the Wild Hunt from The Witcher, at least the crown
- throwaddzuzxd 5y agoTrying mine.
- smusamashah 5y agoTrying mine.
- __david__ 5y agoTrying mine…
- colinprince 5y agook trying
- imran0 5y agomine as well
- kfirstri 5y agomine toooo
- jimkleiber 5y agome too edit: ooo, i'm a...green house?
- zicxor 5y agoI made a chrome extension of this! So it won't disappear when you refresh the page: https://github.com/ekofi/hn_avatar_ext/ https://github.com/ekofi/hn_avatar_ext/