Comments Owl for Hacker News

Draws the rest of the fun owl

Free

Browser extension which makes it easier to follow Hacker News comments threads across multiple visits, by automatically highlighting new comments and showing which items have new comments. It also adds the ability to annotate and mute other users, plus other UX tweaks. Features: List pages • Show new comment counts since you last viewed each item - clicking on the "X new" link will highlight new comments and collapse trees without any new comments • Hide "AI" items in the main list pages • Prevent accidental flagging and hiding on mobile by making the "flag" and "hide" controls require confirmation, or hiding them Item pages • Highlight new comments and collapse trees without any new comments when you revisit an item - you can configure whether or not this happens automatically when you revisit without using an "X new" link • Default comment folding controls are replaced with a Reddit-style left-aligned control, with a slightly larger hit target • Manually highlight the X most-recent comments if it's your first visit or there are no new comments to show • Mute users to hide their comments and replies to them - muted users can be managed on your own profile page • Logged out users get a new 'muted' link in the header they can use to manage their muted users • Add notes to users on their profile page - the first line will be displayed next to their comments • Toggle display of "reply" links below comments, to make more room for comments on the screen • Increased distance between the upvote and downvote arrows at mobile sizes • Increase the contrast of submission text Navigation • Hide navigation links you don't use • Add an "upvoted" link to the navigation for more convenient access to items you recently upvoted • Improved mobile navigation - navigation links are displayed underneath other header contents

  • 4.0
    out of 5
    1 Ratings

List page changes: • Items with new comments are now marked as read if the user visits them in another tab • List page functionality now works for new items added the end when you hide an item • Item hiding features now apply to all list pages, except those showing things a user did (e.g. their hidden items) Item page changes: • Added options to individually hide the root/parent/prev/next nav links on comments • Added an option to hide all nav links on collapsed comments • Made the child count on collapsed threads clickable to expand them • Comment threads now support unmuting • Item pages now react to mute and note changes in other tabs • Reduced flashing by processing more page elements as soon as they appear • Removed extra space above and below the comment tree • Fixed toggle control changing width when toggled • Fixed storage listeners being accumulated when opening user hovercard, these will now only use initial mute and note state Theming: • Added page attributes to html for the top level pages we support, e.g. [item], [item-list], [user] • Added an --item-spacing variable to control space between list page items • Added missing --hovercard-text variable derived from --text-secondary, and a rule to apply it • Derive default --link value from --text-primary • Derive default --hovercard-bg from --bg-content Other: • Rearranged option groups and split some options out into new General and Comments groups • Don't hide the Custom CSS "open in tab" link on iOS, as it lets the textarea grow • Fixed a navigation stylesheet being created when no related features are active • Fixed performance highlighting new comments in very large threads

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    Seller
    • J BUCHANAN & L.J BUCHANAN
    Size
    • 954.4 KB
    Category
    • Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPod touch
      Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2019 So It Is Solutions