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by plibither8 2164 days ago
Hi all, developer of Refined Hacker News here! Happy to see that it has been posted about again. I had initially posted it last year as a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173974 and my philosphy behind the extension (as mentioned in the my comment) is:

> There are many extensions out there that add quite a few features to Hacker News, but they also always do one thing, which I have realised, is a slippery slope: changing the minimalistic design and style of Hacker News.

> I created this extension with one thing in mind: I am NOT going to mess around with the overall design or style of Hacker News. It's sacrosanct.

Thanks, I'm up for discussion! :D

2 comments

Pretty cool! I currently use Hacker News Enhancement Suite, made some tweaks via the Tampermonkey extension, and made a little "unread comments" and "tag user" feature. Looks like your extension might be able to replace some of that /and/ provide some cool new stuff!
I really liked the idea, but the layout jumping during initial page load (used the Firefox version) was really annoying me so much, I had to deactivate it again.
Hi, thanks for using the extension. The "jumping" of the layout is probably due to the insertion of the options bar on the top. You can change this setting to position it on the bottom instead in the extension's popup window (it has a a lot more settings which you can tweak around to customise your experience).

This issue is also addressed here: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/25

Wow, thanks. There's the level of support I wish to have from some commercial software providers :D