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Francis SoFeb 6, 2022

This is a good improvement to the Hacker News site. My only bug I've notice is when HackerNews has the "Applications are open for YC Summer 2022", the banner at the bottom blocks off the "More" button and it prevents users from going to the following page.

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Peter ConerlyFeb 17, 2017

Commenting with this extension is currently broken-- I had to disable it for now. It'd be great to get a fix!

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Alexei ZakharovSep 6, 2016

It hides the search box.

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Jim BergmanAug 25, 2016

HackerNews is much better with this extension. Thanks for recently adding support for HN's native thread collapsing.

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Kevan BensonJul 19, 2016

With the recent Hacker News changes that allow collapsing threads (and remembering collapsed threads through reloads for a period) I decided to try Hacker News without this extension again for a while. I just decided that's not going to work for me. After a few years of use, I really like the look and feel of this extension, and the popup info, and I can't go without them any more. My only complaints are: * Sometimes getting the footer with search to pop up is problematic, even when I'm ho... Show more

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Matt BrennanSep 29, 2014

Since recent updates, hovering over a username crashes the browser every single time.

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Jason FruitJul 11, 2014

Everything is nice, except that with infinite scrolling, it's impossible to scroll to the bottom, where the search box is still presumably waiting. For that reason, I've stopped using it.

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douglas steinwandNov 10, 2013

Some features, like pop-up karma boxes and social sharing, are annoying. Otherwise, it's pretty good. Note: Infinite scroll strangely requires being logged into the ycombinator website.

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Archan MishraJun 3, 2013

Awesome interface , very minimalistic and clean. Keep up the good work.

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Ricky SainiMar 19, 2013

UI is pretty poor, but otherwise it does what it functionally says.

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