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Show HN: Ypander - Hackernews like it should be [for Chrome]
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- badalyan 14y agoHell yes.
- gjulianm 14y agoThe site is down for me :(
- manaskarekar 14y agoThat IS how the author suggests the site be, so we spend less time on here. ;)
- ges 14y agoRuns ok here. Here is the link to the chrome store in case of: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/knkmodnockkaaebcbbdoihohlhcljahh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/knkmodnockkaaebcbb...
- taskstrike 14y agoawesome, saves me the time of loading pages
- curtin 14y agoHacker News is already the way it is suppose to be.
- ryandvm 14y agoI like that this reply is pandering.
- ianstallings 14y agoYeah my two favorite features: 1. Slow loading. 2. Expired links.
- ges 14y agoIt is sending a simple get request to the comments links, so it should load roughly as fast as reloading the full page. As per expired links, it takes the links that are on your page. Can you be more specific about that?
- ianstallings 14y agoSorry I wasn't clear enough in my criticism. It's of the original site not this improved version. What I meant is the expiration of the "next" page link at the bottom of the main list. If someone could fix that to either send me to the write page in a paged set or simply send me back to the new links page with the fresh content I'd be indebted for life. The other criticism of hacker news is how slowly it loads sometimes. I love the content don't get me wrong. And it's free so I feel like a jerk complaining. But it's painfully slow sometimes. I'd never have a site so slow. It would be unacceptable to me.
- de4np 14y agoAccording to the source[1] it looks like a chrome plugin that enables inline-commenting "web2.0" style here on Hackernews Screenshot from source: https://raw.github.com/Gwendall/ypander/master/screenshot.png https://raw.github.com/Gwendall/ypander/master/screenshot.pn... [1] https://github.com/Gwendall/ypander https://github.com/Gwendall/ypander
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- rane 14y agoI wish the author did better job at explaining what it does.
- dave1619 14y agoAgreed. Maybe the author can do a quick 1-minute video demo highlighting it in action. I need to be more enticed before installing anything, even a plug-in.
- littlegiantcap 14y agoUsing it right now, and I have to say this has drastically increased how much more I enjoy using the site.
- switz 14y agoCan you please make it work on news.ycombinator.org as well? I'm weird.
- ges 14y agoIt does now.
- AdamGibbins 14y agoThis is nice, but destroys the ability to open a load of tabs at once by middle clicking the comment links. So it actually slows my usage of the site down as I can't wait for stuff to load in the background.
- cocoflunchy 14y agoWell it doesn't prevent me from middle clicking... and I can click on one and middle-click the others, so I've the best of both worlds.
- AdamGibbins 14y agoReally? Thats odd, I cannot at all. Using Chrome 21 on OSX.
- ges 14y agoJust pushed an update to solve it.
- cooldeal 14y agoSlightly unrelated rant: Perhaps the title can use the disclaimer [Chrome Only]. Am I the only one that thinks Chrome took IE's place in the new "Best Works in IE" flashback from the early 2000s? I use Opera and while it's disappointing that support is lacking I do understand that it's a fringe platform at this point. But is it too much to request submitters of articles like this one to specify which narrow set of browsers they support? I feel like a fool after clicking through and expecting to see the cool effect or whatever and it does not work in my browser most times without even an error message. If you link to a web page without specifying the browsers it supports, it should work in most modern browsers, just Chrome doesn't cut it. At the very least the web page should have the decency show a JS alert saying the web site does/may not support your browser. Who am I kidding, maybe I should just switch to Chrome because web devs are too cool to do that.
- bmelton 14y agoAt the risk of sounding contrarian, this isn't a web page -- it's a Chrome plugin. By its very nature, there's only one browser it's supposed to work for. I generally agree with the sentiment, that people should be writing cross-browser code, but this is more akin to complaining that your iPhone app doesn't work on my Android.
- ges 14y agoAgreed! Done.
- mtgx 14y agoIt's an extension not a website. It used to be that you could only do something like this for Firefox. Now you can do it for both Chrome and Firefox, but Chrome seems to be more popular with HN developers.
- StavrosK 14y agoDon't Chrome plugins work with Opera with minimal modifications? I was under the impression that the APIs were standardized or largely compatible.
- habosa 14y agoIf you want a less intrusive way to comment inline, check out my Chrome extension that I made a few days ago: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jlobffbeljmbmdplahkcojadbfncioip?hl=en&gl=US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jlobffbeljmbmdplah... It lets you reply to a comment without leaving the comments page. Does not interfere with your home page. #shamelessplug
- vhf 14y agoI still prefer HN enhancement suite : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojd... which shows read vs unread comments, displaying in another color unread comments, fixing the design and menus, making comments threads collapsable, etc.
- samstave 14y agoDidn't know about this - the comment collapsing alone is worth it. Thank you to whomever made this!
- Wingman4l7 14y agoIf you just want the comment collapsing enhancement, there are a couple of Chrome extensions that do this, and if you want it in Firefox, there are a couple different bookmarklet implementations that will do it.
- ges 14y agoTo make things clear, Ypander doesn't alter the HN visual design in any way. It just provides a faster way to use it.
- brador 14y agoAnd the other side of that coin, if you just want the articles without comments and fluff, http://skimfeed.com http://skimfeed.com.
- samstave 14y agoSUPER SLOW. Sorry, had to remove it as it made loading way too slow.
- cochese 14y agoDoesn't seem to work if using https.
- ajross 14y agoTried it, junked it. It breaks the linkness of the "comments" links such that I can't Ctrl-click them to open the comment thread in a new window. I guess someone might like seeing a many-page-long comment list appear in the middle of the top-level article list, but I certainly don't. Beyond that it's nice. I do like the in-page "reply" popups.
- ges 14y agoJust pushed an update to solve it.
- habosa 14y agoCheck out "HN Toolbar" something I just released today that is a sort of alternative: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567387 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567387
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- ges 14y agoThanks for all the feedback! I just pushed an update taking into account some of your remarks: * Preserved the default behavior of the "x comments" link: it now inserts an "Expand comments" link next to the default comments link, so that you can use HN the traditional way with Ypander installed. * Speed increased * Support of news.ycombinator.org * Support of https
- StavrosK 14y agoCan you add a "cancel" button next to the "reply" button to close the box? If I decide not to comment the box just stays there and is annoying.
- ElliotH 14y agoPity this only supports news.ycombinator.com - I use news.combinator.net (don't ask me why, its not logical), always messes up these extensions for me.