Refined Hacker News
✨ Browser extension that adds useful features and tweaks a few stuff on Hacker News to make the experience better... without changing the look and feel.
Total ratings
4.81
(Rating count:
21)Review summary
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Provides essential tweaks for Hacker News
- Allows easy blocking of certain features
- Developer is super responsive to bug reports
- Adds subtle touches to make HN easier to use
- Improves user experience
Cons
- Has loading issues as indicated by the spinning wheel
- Extension sometimes forces links to open in a new tab
- Front Page Story sorting bar not functioning well
- Some features like 'Sorting by time' not working
Most mentioned
- Loading or spinning wheel issue
- Developer responsiveness to bug reports
- Issue resolution via GitHub
- Enhanced user experience thanks to tweaks
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-18 | Davide | | I love this addon... nicely done, thank you! |
| 2024-02-28 | Victor Engmark | | |
| 2023-12-24 | Firefox user 18210069 | | I want to like this extension, but it is majorly broken for me. I get a spinning wheel and several errors. Issues list is full of people with similar problems. If you use this extension, please add a review like mine so the author finally fully investigates it. |
| 2023-01-10 | jupiter2 | | Love this extension. It feels like the equivalent to RES for reddit (w/o the overkill). I never thought HN could be tweaked but this extension has changed my mind. It truly provides tweaks that HN needs. I am having a similar issue, however, to one expressed on github (Jun 8, 2021) - titled: [Firefox] Extension is broken (the loading wheel keeps spinning) Most of this extension is working but the Front Page Story sorting bar - which is located above the stories/below the menu items (sort by time/score, auto-refesh, hide read stories) was not working. This caused the spinning wheel. This extension is so great, it allows easy blocking of certain features. So I disabled: 1. hide-read-stories 2. sort-stories 3. auto-refresh BOOM! No more spinning wheel for features that weren't working anyway (for now). I'm still giving this extension 5 stars. It does so much! Even without the sorting, it's great. I do hope this issue gets resolved. I would really like to have *sorting by time*. PS: Using Linux Mint: LibreWolf w/many extensions (main browser). Firefox with some extensions. Firefox *Profile* with zero extensions (ie, clean install of FF). They all had the same spinning wheel issue. |
| 2022-12-25 | GanJingWorld | | Gan Jing World is a clean, curated universe and a dynamic, overlapping network of integrated platforms and services. ==> https://www.ganjing.com |
| 2022-09-22 | Firefox user 17530236 | | |
| 2022-02-23 | Ythan | | |
| 2021-09-28 | Firefox user 14694803 | | Really great add-on, and the developer is super responsive to bug reports on github! https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news |
| 2021-01-13 | Ivan Milosavljević (TheJavaGuy) | | |
| 2020-06-03 | BeforeFlight | |
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