Nice, but I find it a bit too hard to read. On my Stylebot style, I reduced the orange to just a highlight colour. I find it pretty pleasurable to use. Feel free to take anything from it that you want: <a href="http://stylebot.me/styles/2800" rel="nofollow">http://stylebot.me/styles/2800</a><p><i>Some of the selectors in the CSS are very contrived. I found it was the only way to select what I wanted in a document made of tables within tables with barely any classes.</i><p>Also, I totally feel you on this! The underlying HTML for HN is absolutely terrible.
Great work, though it's a shame it's a browser extension. You can't use it on Firefox or mobile.<p>There's a site, tomodo.com, that allows you to modify webpages much like a greasemonkey script or a browser extension and then publish it as a native website. I'd suggest you'll look into that.
I always use <a href="http://hckrnews.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hckrnews.com/</a> and not the normal frontpage. Many small gems without many upvotes get lost on news.ycombinator.com.
Lately I've realized that most of new extensions and applications are specifically designed for Chrome.<p>I stay loyal to Firefox, but it looks like it has fallen a bit behind.
It's nice, but thin fonts are very hard to read (screenshot: <a href="http://uk.omg.li/QPvZ" rel="nofollow">http://uk.omg.li/QPvZ</a>)
Many thanks to everyone for the feedback! I'll try implementing the ideas you've given me (easier to read colors and other tweaks).<p>For those who've installed the extension, it should auto-update when new features come up and you should be notified of the presence of new modules and the low-contrast theme.
Good job on the extension. I did have a couple of suggestions:<p>1. Have an alternate "dark" theme version for those of us who like dark backgrounds as opposed to bright eye-popping colors.<p>2. Similar to the "Open links in new tabs" option, would it be possible to add a "Open comments in new tabs" option?
I just installed it and really like it however when I scroll (quite slowly) down the main page though the text and background blur together so that I can't see anything. I'm not sure if it's because of the thin fonts of the font colours (the headlines seems to blur the most) but it's quite annoying. I'd normally scroll at that speed and be able to skim the headlines. It's impossible to do with the blurring.
I've just installed it and I'm liking it. The links are a bit hard to read on the home-page (they are a bit faded) but otherwise it looks good. Thanks!
I really like it. To be honest, I prefer it more than Georgify [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfaleomlfanfehgblppafkijjhmi?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...</a><p>The only problem I have with it is that after opening comment section, the design pops-out and overwrites the original design.
I'm just say that the colour contrast is atrocious. I've got pretty good eye sight and the text on that screenshot looks blurry. Both the unvisited and visited link states fail at AA colour contrast accessibility levels.<p>[edit] - It took me a while to find the install link. I thought it was a heading. Why don't you use an underline for links?
I usually like my news sites to have a darker theme, so I quickly threw this together in the Stylish Plugin, to work with your HN Special Extension <a href="http://pastebin.com/BhZTuwJV" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/BhZTuwJV</a> . Just added the style to work with URL's on the domain "ycombinator.com"
I really love the infinite scrolling. I think there should be a bit more contrast. It is hard to read the light colored orange on white. Also the visited (light light orange) is a pain. And maybe highlighting the points a thread has would be a nice feature too. Maybe another darker color for that.
I like the overall design but the links are too light orange which make it hard to read. Design's number one goal is to 'get out the way of the user'. Change the link color to something with more contrast against the white background. Then I'll really like it.
I like it. It's about time someone do something about it or I was planning to do something like that myself. It would be awesome one could customize the color and fonts and stuffs like that.<p>The active hyperlink is too fade to read. Please change that.
Did you test it on a MBPr ? The screenshot looks really blurry here. EDIT: it's just the screenshot, the actual extension works fine. A bit more contrast would be appreciated though. Maybe a different background color for links ?
Nice one.<p>BUT!, it's strange, maybe because I'm SOO used to HN (like I'm soo used to Google), I had to change back. Is it just a case of "you'll get used to it"?
Fantastic! I've only one suggestion. I'm using a Macbook Pro (Retina), and the up-arrow icons are extremely blurry. Other than that, everything looks amazing. :)