Kiwi Conversations is a Chrome extension that searches community sites like reddit, Hacker News, and Product Hunt to find forum comment threads about the url you're visiting. It also checks Google News for related news articles. You can make custom searches across all the services to find the all-time best conversations about any topic you want to learn about. The icon updates with a letter to indicate the presence of conversations, and clicking the icon allows you to view the results. Kiwi prioritizes user privacy and does not store personal information.
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As you browse the web - Kiwi checks to see if there have ever been any conversations on reddit, Hacker News, and Product Hunt about the web page you're visiting. It also checks Google News for related news.
You can also make a custom search (any string of characters) across all the services. This returns the all-time best conversations about whatever you're searching. Try "MacBook", the place you live, or anything you want to learn about.
As you browse the web it searches for conversations: If it finds any results -- the icon updates with a letter depending on what it finds ('r','h','p', or 'G'). If it finds conversations with a ton of comments - it capitalizes the letter. So "R" means that thirty or more people commented in a Reddit thread about the site you're visiting. etc.
To view the results, just click the icon.
So far so good. I've seen the Css broken just one or two times with super long urls, other than that everything works flawlessly. I'll keep this extension around and look forward to updates.
I have been using another extension called Reddit Check for over a year and it's very nice. I love finding discussion on random websites I find.
This extension appears to be better made and has more features. It's nice to see discussion on HN too.
I̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶r̶e̶l̶i̶a̶b̶l̶y̶.̶ ̶I̶ ̶c̶l̶i̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶u̶n̶c̶h̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶k̶s̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶H̶N̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶n̶t̶ ̶p̶a̶g̶e̶.̶ ̶R̶e̶d̶d̶i̶t̶ ̶c̶h̶e̶c̶k̶ ̶d̶i̶d̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶h̶a̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶p̶o̶s̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶d̶d̶i̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶K̶i̶w̶i̶ ̶d̶i̶d̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶.̶ ̶H̶o̶w̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶k̶s̶ ̶h̶a̶d̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶p̶o̶s̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶n̶c̶e̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶h̶a̶d̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶c̶u̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶.̶ ̶S̶t̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶m̶s̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶s̶a̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶h̶a̶d̶ ̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶p̶o̶s̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶.̶ (EDIT: This has been fixed.)
It was also unable to find youtube videos that had been posted before. Youtube is terrible at unique URLs, and I don't blame it. However Reddit Check is able to find most of the different places youtube videos have been posted.
I found a link that had been posted to reddit hundreds of times. It only found 11 results. There was also an option for "fuzzy matches" which included a few more links to the exact same URL, but also links that had nothing to do with it. Reddit Check also has a problem where it only returns the first 25 results.
Clicking on any of the links closes the menu, so you can't open many links in new tabs at once. This is also a problem with Reddit Check.
It does not find http versions of https links. Also a problem with Reddit Check.
Clicking on the "submit to reddit" option opened a submission page, but not with the URL in it.
I tried to look at the code but it was all squished together. It does not appear possible to modify it anyway.
Anyway none of these are dealbreakers. I will be using this extension alongside Reddit Check due to the extra features it has. I am concerned about sending so many requests to reddit every time I open a new tab though.
Maciej Jankowski, 2017-10-10
Landon Walsh, 2015-08-16
D Housholder, 2015-08-03
