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How HN took it
7 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 12 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Design: 2 for, 5 againstExecution: 2 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Helps orient where links lead
From 1 comment
Did you know: This happens for each and every user individually, so no danger for the pure design of HN. I like the way it helps me orient where the links lead. I'll keep it for…
kappuchino on HN
Grayscale icons are a good way to avoid distraction
From 1 comment
This had the cross origin issue for me. After combining with an above post that uses GM.addElement this looks really nice. Grayscale is the way to go to prevent the site from…
goldbattle on HN
Objections
Clutters the text-based interface
From 4 comments
Oh please don't. I don't want HN to turn into something like slack that is filled with emojis and animated gifs. It's just too much noise.
alberth on HNPlease dont add any icons any more colors. I love that text-based interface.
slk500 on HNNeat. I tried it and (surprisingly!) found the icons too distracting.
GiorgioG on HNI've grown to hate icons for lists over time. Visually I find them messy and not helpful for filtering.
duxup on HN
Sends requests to DuckDuckGo and third parties, a privacy leak
From 2 comments
N.B. this is going to send a request to duck duck go for every link which (a) some people aren't going to like, and (b) DDG might not like (I couldn't find any explicit policy…
andreareina on HNThis is a great way to leak HN reading to various sites and ad trackers. I'd prefer to only share that information with sites I click on, and HN itself, of course.
numbsafari on HN
Blocked by Hacker News Content-Security-Policy in some browsers
From 2 comments
Doesn’t work (at least for me in Chrome with Tampermonkey) due to Hacker News’s Content-Security-Policy header. > Refused to load the image '<URL>' because it violates the…
dieulot on HNAm I the only one getting a CSP error on this? (using Brave & Snippets)
stffndtz on HN
Requests
Better icon alignment with the text
From 2 comments
Is anyone who's good with CSS able to modify this to align the icon and text better? The current alignment where the baseline of the text is in line with the bottom of the…
ziml77 on HNIf you set the width/height to 12px, set the image's left padding to 0, and center things vertically with flex, it looks significantly better. ``` image.width = 12 image.height =…
dgut on HN
Smaller icons sized to 16px
From 2 comments
Does DuckDuckGo ensure that the icons are 16x16, or will it serve potentially 10’s or 100’s of KB of image only for my browser to resize them?
secondcoming on HNIt does not. Here's what it looks like without the images resized: https://i.imgur.com/sM2ymce.png
jagger27 on HN
Questions
Does it work with Chrome extensions or only userscript managers
From 1 comment
Anybody have a Chrome-plugin version of this? Or should I look into making it when I get home? :)
Jimtrim on HN
Alternatives named
Refined Hacker News extension
From 1 comment
As an aside, there's Refined Hacker News[0] which seems like it would be a great option for this to be built into. It has lots of great features while keeping things minimal. [0]…
mkdirp on HN
Refined-hn Chrome extension
From 1 comment
I just made a chrome extension: https://github.com/samber/refined-hn Publishing request is pending.
samber on HN