devastora

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   by devastora 8y ago

   Thank you! I'm glad to hear that : )
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   by devastora 8y ago

   You have a point. But even though HN doesn't have a ton of color, it still feels different on grayscale I think. Most of the evidence is anecdotal, but it seems to work for a lot of people (myself included). I went into it more here -
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   by devastora 8y ago

   Thanks! Originally I was going to implement a slider where you could adjust the amount of grayscale, but wasn't sure if anyone would use it. I really like the idea of having it gradually go gray, I might look into that when I get a cha
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   by devastora 8y ago

   I know what you mean. If I'm good about using the grayscale, when I see a site with color it's almost overwhelming. You get desensitized to all that color.
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   by devastora 8y ago

   Thanks! By the way, for the phone thing I had the same issue. If you have an iPhone, you can set it so triple clicking the home button toggles it - https://lifehacker.com/change-your-screen-to-grayscale-to-co...
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   by devastora 8y ago

   I hadn't done any scientific studies, just had read about it and decided to give it a try on my phone. It made a difference for me, so I wanted to make something for chrome since as a dev I spend most of my day on there. I'd say i
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   by devastora 8y ago

   Do you mean three separate js files? Two of them are plugin specific files I separated out to make managing the different features easier. The only library I'm loading is tinycolor.js, which I added for the togglable feature where it c
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   by devastora 8y ago

   I feel you. I tried to make it easy to toggle on and off in case you needed to check something in color, but it's a bit of a double edged sword in that it can be too easy to turn it off and leave it off. That's a big part of why I
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   by devastora 8y ago

   Looks like there are a few options available to try - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?platform=ma...
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    by devastora 8y ago

    Yep, you got it. For the most part I'm just adding filter: grayscale(100%) to the html element. There some other stuff going on though. I noticed that for the html and body elements, if they had a background image/color, the grays
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    by devastora 8y ago

    Thanks! I took a quick look and it doesn't seem like there's any plugins out there for grayscaling in Safari right now. If you're talking about mobile safari though, you can do it on an OS level and toggle it by pressing the
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    by devastora 8y ago

    Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I started using the grayscale option on my iPhone a while back and found the same thing. Sites were suddenly way less engaging. It almost felt like going through withdrawal after using it for a few days. H
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    Show HN: Grayscale the Web – A Chrome extension to help avoid mindless browsing(chrome.google.com)

    119 points by devastora 8y ago|77 comments