Show HN: HN++
Posted by 7moritz7 2 hours ago
I know many are happy with the HN frontend. I wrote this for fun and it turned out really useful so I published it. Here are the most important features:
- Rainbow indentation: This is inspired by the Rainbow CSV extension - comments of the same "depth" have the same colored stripe on the left.
- Native filters: Filter the various frontpages (Top, Show...) by upvote count or comment count. There is a "Controversial" (comment count > upvote count) filter too, if you want drama.
- Read later: Save comments and posts and revisit them through a bookmark menu. Saved to local storage.
- Collapsible sticky header: No need to scroll back up to see thread details and navigate to submitted link
- Infinite scroll: No pagination, you just continue scrolling.
- Styled quotes: Paragraphs starting with ">" are styled as a blockquote
- Reply as usual: You can click on Write reply and it takes you to the same page that would open in the regular HN UI
- Favicons: Helps my brain focus. Uses the DuckDuckGo favicon service + caching.
- Dark mode!
- "Open links in new tab": Especially useful on mobile. Can be toggled in the settings.
- Slightly more intuitive navigation? Atleast to me it makes more sense. Clicking a submission title, c2a button or comment count directs you to the thread. Clicking a submission link takes you to the link.
If you have any good ideas or see a bug, feel free to tell me
Comments
Comment by ofalkaed 2 hours ago
Rainbow indentation and opening links in new tabs would be nice although I think rainbow could result in ambiguous colors?. Embedding videos could possibly get me to switch if added, but maybe not, I think the deficiencies of HN are part of what makes it work. Looks good/works good on mobile but not big on the desktop layout, I will probably try it out for abit when browsing on my phone.
Page title is "Create Next App," which is confusing on desktop where I just have tabs with their titles and not thumbnails of the page.
Comment by 7moritz7 1 hour ago