Hacker News UX

Hacker News User Experience Enhancement

Hacker News UX: Enhanced User Experience on Hacker News

Hacker News UX is a powerful, secure, and personalized tool that improves the user experience on the popular Hacker News site. Offering features like auto-loading posts, dynamic in-place commenting without page refresh, user-friendly profile pop-ups, and columns for enhanced readability. The extension also records your activity history. User preferences, such as font size and theme, can be adjusted according to your comfort. Celebrated by publications like Mashable, Hacker News UX is all about making your time on Hacker News more efficient, engaging, and enjoyable.
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Extension stats

Users: 655
7
Rating: 4.08
(24)
Version: 2.0.3 (Last updated: 2023-08-25)
Creation date: 2018-04-09
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • unlimitedStorage
Host permissions:
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/*
  • http://news.ycombinator.net/*
  • http://news.ycombinator.org/*
  • http://news.ycombinator.com/*
Size: 89.72K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

Hacker News UX v2, enhances your experience with Hacker News.

Check out the demo video, and screenshots to get a glimpse of the features!

User Preferences (font-size, column, dark/classic switch) is available by hovering your username, or login, link in the bottom-left corner.

  1. Auto-Load, and Columns Browse lists with auto-load, and columns, enhancing surfacing of interesting content.

  2. Dynamic Reply Reply to comments in-place, and without page-refresh.

  3. Explore, with Profile Pop-Up, and Columns Explore content with profile tooltips, and by opening threads, and profiles into columns, and without managing tabs, or losing progress.

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User reviews

by Diki P, 2023-11-19

Cleverly simple, intuitive, updated quite timely. Really like it.
by Jakub Kotowski, 2014-05-27

Love it
by Saurav Kumar, 2013-05-28
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hacker News UX requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hacker News UX has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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