Hacker News UX
Hacker News user experience enhancement
What is Hacker News UX?
Hacker News UX is a Firefox add-on that enhances your experience with Hacker News. It provides features like auto-load and columns for easier browsing, dynamic reply for commenting without page refresh, profile pop-ups and column view for easier exploration, secure and private browsing, and a history feature. Install now to enhance your Hacker News user experience!
Add-on stats
By: HNUX
Users: 12
Rating: 5.00
(1)
Creation date: 2023-05-26
Weekly download count: 1
Firefox on Android: No
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
- unlimitedStorage
Host permissions:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/*
- http://news.ycombinator.net/*
- http://news.ycombinator.org/*
- http://news.ycombinator.com/*
Size: 96.43K
Email: hn*****@protonmail.com
URLs: Website
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Add-on 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!
How to enable on Firefox
Install the extension
Then visit HN
Then click the puzzle icon on top-right corner, to grant permissions
On the menu, next to HNUX extension item, click the settings icon, and then grant permission to allow all the time
Auto-Load, and Columns Browse lists with auto-load, and columns, enhancing surfacing of interesting content.
Dynamic Reply
User reviews
I find it super convenient how it goes about changing the layout of hacker-news. It would be cool to be able to integrate other themes as well.
by Jostino, 2024-01-30
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Hacker News UX requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Hacker News UX has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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