It is sending a simple get request to the comments links, so it should load roughly as fast as reloading the full page. As per expired links, it takes the links that are on your page. Can you be more specific about that?
Sorry I wasn't clear enough in my criticism. It's of the original site not this improved version.
What I meant is the expiration of the "next" page link at the bottom of the main list. If someone could fix that to either send me to the write page in a paged set or simply send me back to the new links page with the fresh content I'd be indebted for life.
The other criticism of hacker news is how slowly it loads sometimes. I love the content don't get me wrong. And it's free so I feel like a jerk complaining. But it's painfully slow sometimes. I'd never have a site so slow. It would be unacceptable to me.
Agreed. Maybe the author can do a quick 1-minute video demo highlighting it in action. I need to be more enticed before installing anything, even a plug-in.
This is nice, but destroys the ability to open a load of tabs at once by middle clicking the comment links. So it actually slows my usage of the site down as I can't wait for stuff to load in the background.
Perhaps the title can use the disclaimer [Chrome Only].
Am I the only one that thinks Chrome took IE's place in the new "Best Works in IE" flashback from the early 2000s?
I use Opera and while it's disappointing that support is lacking I do understand that it's a fringe platform at this point.
But is it too much to request submitters of articles like this one to specify which narrow set of browsers they support? I feel like a fool after clicking through and expecting to see the cool effect or whatever and it does not work in my browser most times without even an error message. If you link to a web page without specifying the browsers it supports, it should work in most modern browsers, just Chrome doesn't cut it. At the very least the web page should have the decency show a JS alert saying the web site does/may not support your browser. Who am I kidding, maybe I should just switch to Chrome because web devs are too cool to do that.
At the risk of sounding contrarian, this isn't a web page -- it's a Chrome plugin. By its very nature, there's only one browser it's supposed to work for.
I generally agree with the sentiment, that people should be writing cross-browser code, but this is more akin to complaining that your iPhone app doesn't work on my Android.
It's an extension not a website. It used to be that you could only do something like this for Firefox. Now you can do it for both Chrome and Firefox, but Chrome seems to be more popular with HN developers.
which shows read vs unread comments, displaying in another color unread comments, fixing the design and menus, making comments threads collapsable, etc.
If you just want the comment collapsing enhancement, there are a couple of Chrome extensions that do this, and if you want it in Firefox, there are a couple different bookmarklet implementations that will do it.
Tried it, junked it. It breaks the linkness of the "comments" links such that I can't Ctrl-click them to open the comment thread in a new window. I guess someone might like seeing a many-page-long comment list appear in the middle of the top-level article list, but I certainly don't. Beyond that it's nice. I do like the in-page "reply" popups.
Thanks for all the feedback! I just pushed an update taking into account some of your remarks:
* Preserved the default behavior of the "x comments" link: it now inserts an "Expand comments" link next to the default comments link, so that you can use HN the traditional way with Ypander installed.
Pity this only supports news.ycombinator.com - I use news.combinator.net (don't ask me why, its not logical), always messes up these extensions for me.
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[ 411 ms ] story [ 125 ms ] thread1. Slow loading. 2. Expired links.
What I meant is the expiration of the "next" page link at the bottom of the main list. If someone could fix that to either send me to the write page in a paged set or simply send me back to the new links page with the fresh content I'd be indebted for life.
The other criticism of hacker news is how slowly it loads sometimes. I love the content don't get me wrong. And it's free so I feel like a jerk complaining. But it's painfully slow sometimes. I'd never have a site so slow. It would be unacceptable to me.
Screenshot from source: https://raw.github.com/Gwendall/ypander/master/screenshot.pn...
[1] https://github.com/Gwendall/ypander
Perhaps the title can use the disclaimer [Chrome Only].
Am I the only one that thinks Chrome took IE's place in the new "Best Works in IE" flashback from the early 2000s?
I use Opera and while it's disappointing that support is lacking I do understand that it's a fringe platform at this point.
But is it too much to request submitters of articles like this one to specify which narrow set of browsers they support? I feel like a fool after clicking through and expecting to see the cool effect or whatever and it does not work in my browser most times without even an error message. If you link to a web page without specifying the browsers it supports, it should work in most modern browsers, just Chrome doesn't cut it. At the very least the web page should have the decency show a JS alert saying the web site does/may not support your browser. Who am I kidding, maybe I should just switch to Chrome because web devs are too cool to do that.
I generally agree with the sentiment, that people should be writing cross-browser code, but this is more akin to complaining that your iPhone app doesn't work on my Android.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jlobffbeljmbmdplah...
It lets you reply to a comment without leaving the comments page. Does not interfere with your home page.
#shamelessplug
which shows read vs unread comments, displaying in another color unread comments, fixing the design and menus, making comments threads collapsable, etc.
Sorry, had to remove it as it made loading way too slow.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567387
* Preserved the default behavior of the "x comments" link: it now inserts an "Expand comments" link next to the default comments link, so that you can use HN the traditional way with Ypander installed.
* Speed increased
* Support of news.ycombinator.org
* Support of https