Bookmarklets to Sort Hacker News' Comments

With sorting the higher will be higher (people sort and agree with the higher voted comments, hence voting them up again) and lower remains unread.

A while back I had the urge to sort HN comments and figured a javascript bookmark was the best way to go. My thoughts eventually led me to, "Hmm what other cool stuff can I do to modify my favorite websites?" And then of course that led to, "I'll create a repository for this kinda stuff!"

So I registered the domain jsmods.com a while back and finally had the chance to whip something together last weekend.

The entire site is contained within a single PHP file under 600 lines long, and I don't use any database... just encrypted flat files with file concurrency prevention algorithms.

And I actually didn't find out until yesterday that it's called "bookmarklets." I googled the term afterwards and I must say, the current bookmarklet repository sites out there are horrendous.

However, I think JSmods is the appropriate name as I created it for people to create and share javascript modifications for specific websites, not just the usual any-site-bookmarklet.

I'd like it to be conducive to learning and hacking.

After I get some more submissions I'll add a search function (similar to the instant searches we see everywhere these days) and some other fancy stuff. And I may end up replacing the disqus comment system with my own custom system because the disqus system doesn't work as seamlessly/smoothly as I would like.

Overall it was a pretty fun little project to whip together over the weekend. :)