Update: I was a bit let down that you just show the HN page in an iframe, nd dont actually restyle the comments in a user friendly way like in a side bar for the site (which i think would be brilliant)
I created this 3 plugins to create a better personal experience with HN, they are not made to create a nice UI, in fact, it might make it more confusing, but they help me to find more interesting things to read and have a general better experience.
Tag users, there is also a file with some tag ready to be used. I like knowing who am I talking to, like if it's a dev of some company, a marketing person etc..
Shows the number of comments/score since you refreshed the page(orange) or when you opened the thread(blue)
There is also the HNBox, which is all of them together: https://bitbucket.org/Duiker101/hnbox als avaible on the Chrome store
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hnbox/bphebkcfkkmdemhbbomehjbopofkhmib
This plugins were created for me but I hope will be helpful for someone else also.
The extension adds a section for related discussions for each submission page. Many times, I found myself intrigued by interesting discussions which left me hungry for more and I'd go down a rabbit hole, or maybe it was promising but didn't get enough attention and I'd need to check if there were any related discussions in the past about the same subject.
I found that even though HN is a news aggreagator, many discussions on HN are timeless (just like this here).
I'm proud of it and find the experience and flow to be very enjoyable. It also helps me find great stories that I might not have stumbled across.
That looks really good. I am not familiar with many of the sites on there, but I noticed no way of getting to HN discussions from your site. Do you think some way of reaching the discussion or comments section of some of the feeds would be helpful to others?
https://www.hn.plus
For anyone interested in HN-type forums (with lots of other features we've built)
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