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grandjury··on Show HN: Txtpen – web highlights and in-text comments
Python unicode handling. Should be fixed. Thanks!
grandjury··on Show HN: Txtpen – web highlights and in-text comments
Of course not. There aren't any or the moderator hasn't approved any.

Personal highlights are visible only if you login

grandjury··on Show HN: Txtpen – web highlights and in-text comments
Thanks for the feedback. Highlighting is supported on any page. I will add this use case to the homepage.

Here is the link to the txtpen Chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/txtpen-web-pen/cgm...

grandjury··on Show HN: Txtpen – web highlights and in-text comments
This friction raises the bar of highlighting, forces the user to read the text again and makes sure that highlight is intentional.
grandjury··on Show HN: Txtpen – web highlights and in-text comments
Good question. txtpen uses fuzzy string matching among other anchoring mechanisms. Assuming the change is below a certain threshold, txtpen displays a diff(addition, deletion) of the underlying text.
grandjury··on Show HN: Txtpen – web highlights and in-text comments
Hello,

txtpen is launched today. I started this sideproject because I really like in-text commenting on Medium. It is the best way to add value for readers.

An example blog page that has txtpen enabled:

http://blog.antoniofrighetto.com/ipc

If you have any suggestions or feedback please contact me. ricky@txtpen.com

grandjury··on Show HN: Txtpen – web highlights and in-text comments
Thanks for checking it out.

1. Full publisher control. Publishers can moderate and pin highlights on their sites. However, all annotations can be retrieved via RESTful API as per W3C standards. Hypothes.is doesn't support moderation in their current iteration.

2. txtpen picks the best highlights to value add the reader. Otherwise annotation is nothing more than digital graffiti. Hypothes.is display any and all annotations on page.

Also, we strive to be the best web annotation platform period. The load speed is 150ms compared to 2 seconds of hypothesis. It does not slow your page down.