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by grandjury 3364 days ago
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.

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Oh, wait. Sorry. I was asking from the viewpoint of someone that wants to write comments for himself on any random webpage. Hypothesis has a Chrome Extension that allows me to annotate any webpage and find my annotations later, even if the webpage hasn't added Hypothesis to the site.

I believe that's not in the scope of txtpen, right?

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...