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Show HN: Reply to Hacker News comments inline, without leaving the page

24 points by habosa 14y ago

habosa 14y ago
Hi guys, I made this, and here is the Github: https://github.com/hatboysam/hnreply https://github.com/hatboysam/hnreply It's crazy simple, just a little workaround to get the "fnid" code the comment reply page uses to post replies. Let me know what you think of it.
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- wamatt 14y ago
  This reply is using it. Neat :)
- seangransee 14y ago
  writing this comment without leaving the page. love it!
  - habosa 14y ago
    Glad it works for someone besides me.
    - bherms 14y ago
      Definitely... I love it. Thanks!
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- publicfig 14y ago
  Is there any sort of way to cancel out of making a comment? I wasn't planning on leaving a comment right here but now I actually have something to comment about!
  - habosa 14y ago
    I should definitely add that, thanks for the feedback.
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chm 14y ago
I get a "Manifest is invalid" error when trying to install.
- habosa 14y ago
  Can you send me exactly what it says? I just re-installed and everything went fine (in fact I am using it to reply to you right now).
  - xwowsersx 14y ago
    I installed it and I'm still getting a new page.
    - habosa 14y ago
      Do you possibly have JavaScript disabled?
Evbn 14y ago
If you want HN to work like Reddit, why not just create Reddit.com/r/hn and have a crosspost bot sync the sites? No client side software needed.
- habosa 14y ago
  That would be a really cool project, but certainly a lot more work than my <100 line Chrome plugin. Maybe the HNSearch guys could do that, they already pull down all the data from the site. It would also be very hard to get the votes/comments to mirror.
- publicfig 14y ago
  I don't think this is just in the vein of Reddit, but just an interactive experience many expect when using comment forms. There are a few things I wouldn't mind HN grabbing from Reddit (and many more things I want to stay as far away as possible), but this was, by no means, something I thought of as an exclusively "Reddit" feature. While I understand Reddit has this capability, it's hardly specific.
jrajav 14y ago
When I saw the title and URL, I initially thought that it was an extension to integrate HN comments with the actual articles. That would be pretty cool too.
- habosa 14y ago
  Like an HN toolbar similar to the reddit toolbar? That would be great, maybe I will do that next. Probably wouldn't be that hard.
  - publicfig 14y ago
    If anything, it would be nice just to have the top bar that can redirect back to the comments section of the article along with the submitted title. I tend to go through and click a bunch of links and then go through them in order to avoid the "unknown or expired link" error and it would be nice to have a little memory jolt to remind me why I was there in the first place!
gailees 14y ago
This is pretty cool.
- habosa 14y ago
  Thanks! I recognize your username as one of the BuddyHack guys. I sat right next to you for much of PennApps.
numbnuts 14y ago
This looks nice. Anyone know of anything similar for Firefox?
- habosa 14y ago
  I'm not sure if something similar exists for FF, but if you go to the github you'll see that all you need is jQuery and my hnreply.js file, so maybe one of those user theming extensions will let you insert them.

24 points by habosa 14y ago

Hi guys, I made this, and here is the Github: https://github.com/hatboysam/hnreply https://github.com/hatboysam/hnreply It's crazy simple, just a little workaround to get the "fnid" code the comment reply page uses to post replies. Let me know what you think of it.

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wamatt 14y ago
This reply is using it. Neat :)
seangransee 14y ago
writing this comment without leaving the page. love it!
- habosa 14y ago
  Glad it works for someone besides me.
  - bherms 14y ago
    Definitely... I love it. Thanks!
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publicfig 14y ago
Is there any sort of way to cancel out of making a comment? I wasn't planning on leaving a comment right here but now I actually have something to comment about!
- habosa 14y ago
  I should definitely add that, thanks for the feedback.
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chm 14y ago

I get a "Manifest is invalid" error when trying to install.

habosa 14y ago
Can you send me exactly what it says? I just re-installed and everything went fine (in fact I am using it to reply to you right now).
- xwowsersx 14y ago
  I installed it and I'm still getting a new page.
  - habosa 14y ago
    Do you possibly have JavaScript disabled?

Evbn 14y ago

If you want HN to work like Reddit, why not just create Reddit.com/r/hn and have a crosspost bot sync the sites? No client side software needed.

habosa 14y ago
That would be a really cool project, but certainly a lot more work than my <100 line Chrome plugin. Maybe the HNSearch guys could do that, they already pull down all the data from the site. It would also be very hard to get the votes/comments to mirror.
publicfig 14y ago
I don't think this is just in the vein of Reddit, but just an interactive experience many expect when using comment forms. There are a few things I wouldn't mind HN grabbing from Reddit (and many more things I want to stay as far away as possible), but this was, by no means, something I thought of as an exclusively "Reddit" feature. While I understand Reddit has this capability, it's hardly specific.

jrajav 14y ago

When I saw the title and URL, I initially thought that it was an extension to integrate HN comments with the actual articles. That would be pretty cool too.

habosa 14y ago
Like an HN toolbar similar to the reddit toolbar? That would be great, maybe I will do that next. Probably wouldn't be that hard.
- publicfig 14y ago
  If anything, it would be nice just to have the top bar that can redirect back to the comments section of the article along with the submitted title. I tend to go through and click a bunch of links and then go through them in order to avoid the "unknown or expired link" error and it would be nice to have a little memory jolt to remind me why I was there in the first place!

gailees 14y ago

This is pretty cool.

habosa 14y ago
Thanks! I recognize your username as one of the BuddyHack guys. I sat right next to you for much of PennApps.

numbnuts 14y ago

This looks nice. Anyone know of anything similar for Firefox?

habosa 14y ago
I'm not sure if something similar exists for FF, but if you go to the github you'll see that all you need is jQuery and my hnreply.js file, so maybe one of those user theming extensions will let you insert them.