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
• New feature: hide items matching your own custom title and site patterns (separate from the patterns for hiding "AI" items, which have defaults)
• New feature: apply your own custom CSS
• New feature: submit comments and forms by pressing Ctrl+Enter/⌘ Return in textareas (enabled by default)
• Regex inputs now treat each line as a separate pattern, and support using a leading # for line comments
• Updated app to provide install instructions for iOS
• Updated the default "AI" RegExp to handle "A.I."
• Fixed the "highlight recent" control adding duplicate time travel controls
• Fixed scroll position changes in options caused by auto-sizing textareas when other options are changed
• Fixed clearing error state for the "AI" site regex in options
• Fixed iOS Safari section group backgrounds in options when using dark mode
The developer, J BUCHANAN & L.J BUCHANAN, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- J BUCHANAN & L.J BUCHANAN
- Size
- 919.6 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.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019 So It Is Solutions
