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by TeMPOraL 927 days ago
Easy enough to do it yourself via userstyle (for Stylus) or userscript (for TamperMonkey)? :).

I'm currently using both - userstyle for DIY dark mode, userscript on mobile for font size adjustment (no Stylus available on Firefox for Android yet). Plus uBlock Origin configured to nuke the karma counter.
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dredmorbius 927 days ago
True.

And though I don't have a relocated collapse control, there are modified light/dark mode HN styles linked in my HN profile, for those interested in either using those directly or as a starting point for your own restyle.

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mr_mitm 927 days ago
I could and probably will, but solving this on the server-side would be a huge time-saver for millions of users.

Is there a RES-style browser addon for HN with some of these little quality of life improvements?

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TeMPOraL 927 days ago
Then again, it's hacker news. If the audience of this site won't individually hack the UX to match their preferences, who will?
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mr_mitm 927 days ago
With that logic, why not just provide an API. Everybody just hack together their own client. Being a hacker doesn't mean you never get to benefit from prior work, or never work together on something, or never share your work.

I get the appeal of providing a minimal service like HN, but unless I'm missing something, my proposed change is an absolute no-brainer considering it's effort-reward ratio.

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dredmorbius 927 days ago
<https://github.com/HackerNews/API>

Linked under "API" at the bottom of the page you're reading now.

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mr_mitm 927 days ago
Emphasis was on "just", as in: no web client.
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dredmorbius 927 days ago
That seems an unreasonable expectation.

There are and were message- and discussion-oriented protocols, most notably Usenet, of which you may be aware there were some persistent issues:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36194941>

<https://web.archive.org/web/20220321105208/https://old.reddi...>

The thought's occurred to me that among the conspicuous omissions from the HTML spec is of a threaded discussion (or more specifically, messages within a threaded context) as a first-order object, permitting arbitrary structuring of that content at the volition of the reader.

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dredmorbius 927 days ago
Or search:

<https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=alternative+hacker+news+fro...>

"Alternative hacker news front ends".

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