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 for Refined Hacker News

4.80 (Rating count: 20)

User reviews summary

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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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Recent reviews for Refined Hacker News

Recent rating average: 4.70

All time rating average: 4.80

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Date	Author	Comment
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
2020-05-28	akay

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