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by gitgud • 8 years ago

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gitgud9• 8 years ago

Hey Guys,

This is my first Chrome extension. I made it because, I always find my self searching for older discussions about popular webpages, like when popular technologies are first released.

This extension checks if the current webpage has a posting on Hacker News or Reddit. If a post exists, a button will be created which displays the number of comments and links to the discussion.

The idea stems from this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16647565

Hope you find it as useful as I do, and greatly appreciate any feedback you have.

Cheers!

askz2• 8 years ago

Indeed a great idea, do you plan to port it to Firefox too? :)

gitgud9• 8 years ago

Thanks, yes I've just had a look at the Firefox api and its very similar to Chrome's, so it shouldn't take much work!

gitgud9• 8 years ago

Hey, so I refactored and made a Firefox addon! it's pretty cool that firefox allows addons on mobile, so it works there too!

Here's the link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/newsit-hnews-...

Let me know what you think, or if there's any issues

fwdpropaganda2• 8 years ago

I love the idea because these days often a large chunk of the value comes from good comments from readers. Especially with HN but also to some degree with reddit.

Two questions:

First, will you tell us how it works? My guess is that you have scrapped these dicussions from reddit and HN and your extension contacts a server asking "show me reddit and HNs for this news". Is this correct?

Second, will you kindly stop contributing to Google's eco-system? Time and time again Google has shown the world the complete disregard they have for everything but their bottom line. By comparison Mozilla's behavior has been impeccable.

ognarb• 8 years ago

Does it means that each url I visit with this addons enabled are send to a foreign server?

gitgud9• 8 years ago

Thanks! And good questions, firstly no scraping involved. The api's are much easier to work with.

For Hacker News it uses the official JSON api https://github.com/HackerNews/API/blob/master/README.md

And for Redit, it simply queries the url directly eg: https://reddit.com/example.com/article.html

As for your second question, go easy on me it's my first extension ;) But yes I plan to port it to Firefox too, as the extension APIs are amazingly similar!

gitgud9• 8 years ago

Hey, so I refactored and made a Firefox addon! it's pretty cool that firefox allows addons on mobile, so it works there too!

Here's the link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/newsit-hnews-...

Let me know what you think, or if there's any issues

rareutilities• 8 years ago

Any port for firefox?

gitgud9• 8 years ago

Yes! so I've just refactored and published the Firefox addon! it's pretty cool that firefox allows addons on mobile, so it works there too!

Here's the link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/newsit-hnews-...

Let me know what you think, or if there's any issues

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