Hacker News Enhancement Suite

Hacker News Enhanced.

Hacker News Enhancement Suite - Transform your Hacker News Experience

Hacker News Enhancement Suite is a must-have Chrome extension for Hacker News enthusiasts. It brings a completely new visual style, with added features like collapsible comment threads, links to parent comments, highlighting original posters and previously visited links. The extension further enhances navigation and interaction on the platform, with features like easy access to all pages, keyboard controls, user tags, and the display of your upvote history. It also works to streamline your experience by redirecting to the front page when hitting expired links and providing clickable links in text submissions and user profiles.

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Extension stats

By: https://etcet.net

Users: 3,000+

Rating: 4.43

(90)

Version: 1.6.0.3 (Last updated: 2023-01-02)

Creation date: 2018-09-14

Permissions:

storage
unlimitedStorage

Size: 76.94K

Email: ch*****@etcet.net

URLs: Website

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 16,534 ▲ 15

Other rankings

#11272 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 139 #10 in hacker keyword 18 ▼ 1 #86 in enhance keyword 54 ▼ 8 #162 in news keyword 28 ▲ 9 #195 in story keyword 19 ▼ 2

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Hacker News Enhancement Suite (v1.6.0.3)

619 4.53

(34)

Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Enhances readability with improved typography
Collapsible comments feature is appreciated
Provides clear display of comment counts and votes side by side
Simplicity with just the right amount of features
Overall positive user experience with appreciation for UI improvements

Cons

Drastic overhaul of site interface can be off-putting
Incompatibility with Dark Reader and other dark themes
Issues with losing comments during submission if posting too quickly
New styles can obscure functionality (like visibility of other users' comments)
Page refresh upon voting disrupts user experience

Most mentioned

Request for a dark theme
Desire for more comment management options (like collapsing comments)
Issues with losing submitted comments
Complaints about drastic style changes
Performance issues such as slowness and loss of CSS for voting buttons

User reviews

amazing

Jason, 2025-02-03

Working as expected

Kaishu Sahu, 2024-05-24

I like it. Could you add Dark theme?

Yerzhan, 2024-02-20

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hacker News Enhancement Suite requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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