[Solvency]

sorry, I'm having a hard time understanding what this thing does? Basically it removes the page numbers that would normally appear at the bottom of forum pages? Could that have been accomplished with dynamically changing display to none on the CSS of those elements? don't mean to sound dismissive of the concept at all here I'm just trying to understand.

[eyelidlessness]

I took a look at the scripts, and they’re a bit more involved than that. For instance, in some cases they change the text of certain elements, presumably where the original text contains information OP described not wanting to see. In other cases, nodes are selected for their text content. It’s conceivable that some or even most of what the scripts do would be achievable with CSS, but probably not all of it. And it would probably require a level of CSS sophistication beyond OP’s start with JS (and likely beyond the CSS skillset of many otherwise experienced programmers).

All of that said, and I mean this kindly… I think there is an aspect of your comment that comes off dismissive, which is an implicit why did you choose X instead of Y? that a novice programmer likely couldn’t be expected to answer meaningfully. OP articulated very clearly what problem they set out to solve (impressively so! much more effectively than many Show HN submissions from seasoned devs). They also explained clearly how they used an existing tool designed for solving similar problems.

It’s certainly possible they will benefit from learning about different techniques to address some aspects of the problem. But an interrogatory introduction to why those alternatives weren’t chosen can be rather intimidating.

[willthereader]

Thank you for the explanation, praise, and social lesson! I wasn't looking forward to researching a different language to answer Solvency's question.

One of my challenges when it comes to autism is I accidentally ask interrogatory or aggressive questions when I'm genuinely curious about someone else's reasoning and trust they know what they're doing. Would "I'm wondering why you made design choice x because I thought design choice y would be a better option because I thought y is better for these reasons" be a good way to ask what the reasoning is?

[Solvency]

slow down buddy, I asked because the concept intro confused me, not because I think his project is bad.

[willthereader]

While I see how other people might’ve taken your question as interrogatory, I personally didn’t even think of that possibility until eyelidlessness pointed that out. I appreciate that eyelidlessness answered your question for me before I got around to researching CSS. It’s good to know for the future I should explain the reasoning behind my design choices in the concept intro.