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I find my meaningless avatars very useful. It helps to see when the someone is replying further down a thread. http://i.imgur.com/LNIXIp3.png http://i.imgur.co
by Flenser 14y ago
I find my meaningless avatars very useful. It helps to see when the someone is replying further down a thread.
http://i.imgur.com/LNIXIp3.png http://i.imgur.com/LNIXIp3.png
- lobster_johnson 14y agoIs that some kind of HN userscript, or did you mock up the screenshot?
- Flenser 14y agoIt's a greasemonkey userscript running in Chromes Tampermonkey extension. It uses https://github.com/hgwr/identicon https://github.com/hgwr/identicon to generate data uri's for the avatars. I also have a hard coded map of usernames to icons. In the image above codinghorror has his own avatar as well as the stackexchange icon (I'll have to add one for discourse now). I've added many many more from icons for other users so I can remember their current and previous affiliations (which appear with 50% opacity). To make it quick to add new icons I have a bunch of bookmarklets for finding the favicon for a site, doing a flood fill of the alpha channel from the corners and resize it to 16x16 if it is a newer larger favicon. So adding a icon generally takes less the 30 seconds.
- jvzr 14y agoI would be interested in seeing this turned into a true Google Chrome extension. I always seem to miss who's replying. In a sense it's great since we are treated as equals, but I sometimes miss a great reply by pg and others.
- Flenser 14y agoI hesitate to share the code for this as it could change the nature of HN if it became widespread. (It would also take more time to convert it to an extension that anyone could use than I have available right now.)
- jvzr 14y agoI understand. Both points are valid, and I wish you well on the projects you spend your time on. ;)