I'm not a zillions of tabs person (my browsers are all configured to lose them on close) but I'm definitely a "comment threads are impossible to follow on repea

I'm not a zillions of tabs person (my browsers are all configured to lose them on close) but I'm definitely a "comment threads are impossible to follow on repeat visits" person, which is why I made this extension (also on GreasyFork as a user script) which shows which stories have new comments on list pages and can automatically highlight new comments and collapse trees without new comments: https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news It also improves HN on mobile somewhat: header links go under the top bar, slightly larger hit targets for voting and collapsing, confirmation for hiding/flagging so you don't accidentally do it on scroll... also, you can mute people, just saying. Lots more planned, but I'm busy writing my own settings sync backend because there's currently no good way to do that for extensions across all devices and browsers. I wouldn't recommend it over the official version, but pretty sure I was one of the first to put out an alternative UI when the Firebase feed was released - it has the same new comment highlighting features as my extension, but in "real" time thanks to Firebase - you might have seen Addy Osmani using it for PWA experimentation at Google I/O 2016 o_O: https://insin.github.io/react-hn https://insin.github.io/react-hn