Sounds interesting. I'd love to hear more about it sometime. Maybe even see some screenshots. You should do a Show HN post!
I'd be scared to show it as is because we get in trouble when admin-specific stuff shows up in screenshots. There once was a controversy because 'kill', 'blast', and 'nuke' links showed up in a screen shot, despite the fact that they were all defined in the version of the HN source code that pg published years ago.
A Show HN will certainly be in order if we ever publish it, though.
> opening and closing those tabs when desired
will only work with window.open if the moderation tool's window owns the tabs in question. So if you open a HN tab randomly or from another site or wherever, the moderation tool won't have opened it, and so it won't be able to close it.
reddit has RES. People are used to browser extensions, and this doesn't sound like it'd cooperate too well on a phone or similar device, so I say just release the extension.
As for fun-sounding feature names, just make a help page in the extension describing how everything works. Maybe call the help page "spoilers" or something. :D
Oh and can I be the fourth person to know what Lisp you wrote this in? :D
Thanks for the info. :)
I'm mildly curious how Lumen and Arc differ.
We also wanted it to be self-hosted, and to compile (transpile) to Lua as well as JS, in as straightforward a way as possible. JS and Lua are very close semantically, so our approach with Lumen was to take the semantic intersection of those two and then build the simplest thing we could on top of it. As a result, it's quite different from Arc, which is semantically a classical Lisp.
Here are a couple of old comments I posted about this idea, before Scott implemented it: