Comment by newscracker | Hacker News Reader

Comment by newscracker | Hacker News Reader

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> I created this extension with one thing in mind: I am NOT going to mess around with the overall design or style of Hacker News. It's sacrosanct.

I wish you would do something about the voting buttons and the expand/collapse buttons. They're way too tiny and way too close to other elements in the default scheme used by HN. This is a big deficiency I see with the default HN interface, which makes it less usable as well as less accessible.

Edit: I also see a 3/28 counter and a spinning icon on the top left of the page that doesn't change regardless of which post I'm browsing. Sometimes it disappears if I navigate to another post or page, but it looks like it starts with 0/28 for every post. [This is on Brave right now; no issues with connectivity or connection speed; dropdown menu from the username works.]

Ha, I made an extension with the same idea as OP to solve just the problem you mention - at least on devices with touch screens (I'm using it on Firefox for Android).

If you're using Firefox, you can install it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sihn/

For expand/collapse, one of the very few things I've liked about "new" Reddit is being able to click the indent bar alongside comments to show/collapse. Something like that in this for HN would be helpful.

Hey! I think what you want is already implemented in the feature "click-comment-indent-to-toggle".

The “click on the indent bar to show/collapse” on reddit was something unintuitive for me initially. Moving from desktop where there is a clear arrow icon for that, I searched online on how to do this in the interface without the triangles. :)

Hi! The feature "click-rank-to-vote-unvote" increases the hit-area of the upvote button, so you can click the "rank" of the item to upvote the item.

Seconding this, the buttons are way too tiny. On mobile they are almost impossible to hit on smaller text settings.

Hey, regarding your update, could you create an issue on GitHub? It'll be easier to discuss it there.

The counter "counts" the feature that have been loaded. It looks like you are stuck on the "highlight-unread-comments" feature. Could you open the console and check for error messages there?

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