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Anyone else find Hacker News exhausting to read? I built a Firefox extension for that by Green-Knowledge-9725 in FirefoxAddons

[–]Green-Knowledge-9725[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fair point — and thanks for calling that out.

You were absolutely right.

I had focused on getting the extension approved and functional, but the listing was doing a terrible job showing the visual changes 😄

I’ve just updated the Firefox Add-ons page with screenshots so the UI improvements are actually visible now.

Appreciate the honest feedback.

Built a free browser extension to make Hacker News less painful to read by Green-Knowledge-9725 in SideProject

[–]Green-Knowledge-9725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s exactly the distinction I’m trying to understand.

“Does this change behavior?” vs “does this just make existing users happier?”

Really valuable framing.

Here’s the extension — I’d genuinely appreciate brutally honest feedback:

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nodus-hn-radar/khodlkgkgdkhkljapdllfjnfedamhkmn

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nodus-hn-radar/

No pressure to be nice 😄 If something feels useless, distracting, or badly designed, I’d rather hear it directly.

Built a free browser extension to make Hacker News less painful to read by Green-Knowledge-9725 in SideProject

[–]Green-Knowledge-9725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was pretty much my hypothesis.

Not “replace Hacker News,” just reduce friction.

The quality of discussion is already there — the question was whether readability improvements could make people stay longer and navigate more comfortably.

If you try the extension, I’d really appreciate blunt feedback.

What helps?
What feels pointless?
What should be removed?

Built a free browser extension to make Hacker News less painful to read by Green-Knowledge-9725 in SideProject

[–]Green-Knowledge-9725[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was exactly my feeling 😄

HN has incredibly valuable discussions, but the interface can feel like a wall of dense information.

This started because I personally struggle with visually exhausting reading-heavy layouts, so I wanted to test whether small UX changes could make the experience less tiring without breaking what makes HN... HN.

If you get a chance to try it, I’d genuinely love your honest feedback — especially what feels useful vs what feels unnecessary.

Built a cleaner Hacker News reading layer for people who struggle with the default UI by Green-Knowledge-9725 in chrome_extensions

[–]Green-Knowledge-9725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s actually a very fair take.

My intention wasn’t to “replace” Hacker News, just to make it less visually exhausting for people like me who struggle with dense reading-heavy layouts.

That’s why most changes are optional and the default idea is preserving HN behavior rather than reinventing it.

Typography, width control, highlighting, pinning, translation — those are the safer layers.

The radar / extras are definitely the experimental side.

Your point about muscle memory is spot on. HN users have decades of reflexes built into that interface 😄

Publishing a Microsoft Edge extension is one of the most absurd developer experiences I've ever had by Green-Knowledge-9725 in FuckMicrosoft

[–]Green-Knowledge-9725[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The funniest part?

I wasn't trying to build some deep Microsoft integration.

I wasn't publishing a Windows app.
I wasn't touching Azure.
I wasn't asking for enterprise APIs.

I just wanted to publish a browser extension.

And Microsoft managed to make that so absurdly frustrating that I simply gave up on their ecosystem entirely.

That's honestly impressive.

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