I still prefer HN enhancement suite : <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojd...</a><p>which shows read vs unread comments, displaying in another color unread comments, fixing the design and menus, making comments threads collapsable, etc.
If you want a less intrusive way to comment inline, check out my Chrome extension that I made a few days ago:<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jlobffbeljmbmdplahkcojadbfncioip?hl=en&gl=US" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jlobffbeljmbmdplah...</a><p>It lets you reply to a comment without leaving the comments page. Does not interfere with your home page.<p>#shamelessplug
This is nice, but destroys the ability to open a load of tabs at once by middle clicking the comment links. So it actually slows my usage of the site down as I can't wait for stuff to load in the background.
Tried it, junked it. It breaks the linkness of the "comments" links such that I can't Ctrl-click them to open the comment thread in a new window. I guess someone might like seeing a many-page-long comment list appear in the middle of the top-level article list, but I certainly don't. Beyond that it's nice. I do like the in-page "reply" popups.
According to the source[1] it looks like a chrome plugin that enables inline-commenting "web2.0" style here on Hackernews<p>Screenshot from source: <a href="https://raw.github.com/Gwendall/ypander/master/screenshot.png" rel="nofollow">https://raw.github.com/Gwendall/ypander/master/screenshot.pn...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/Gwendall/ypander" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Gwendall/ypander</a>
Thanks for all the feedback! I just pushed an update taking into account some of your remarks:<p>* Preserved the default behavior of the "x comments" link: it now inserts an "Expand comments" link next to the default comments link, so that you can use HN the traditional way with Ypander installed.<p>* Speed increased<p>* Support of news.ycombinator.org<p>* Support of https
Check out "HN Toolbar" something I just released today that is a sort of alternative:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567387" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567387</a>
Pity this only supports news.ycombinator.com - I use news.combinator.net (don't ask me why, its not logical), always messes up these extensions for me.
Slightly unrelated rant:<p>Perhaps the title can use the disclaimer [Chrome Only].<p>Am I the only one that thinks Chrome took IE's place in the new "Best Works in IE" flashback from the early 2000s?<p>I use Opera and while it's disappointing that support is lacking I do understand that it's a fringe platform at this point.<p>But is it too much to request submitters of articles like this one to specify which narrow set of browsers they support? I feel like a fool after clicking through and expecting to see the cool effect or whatever and it does not work in my browser most times without even an error message. If you link to a web page without specifying the browsers it supports, it should work in most modern browsers, just Chrome doesn't cut it. At the very least the web page should have the decency show a JS alert saying the web site does/may not support your browser. Who am I kidding, maybe I should just switch to Chrome because web devs are too cool to do that.