Good point, I'll add prev / next back in the next update. They've been moved to the "control pad" (pro feature) in the extension, but my intention is for the free version to support all current HN features.

Thanks! Yeah I forgot that, will add a setting in the next update to change the color of visited links.

Thanks :) Yes the plan is definitely to add more font selection, including Verdana for the classic look!

I'd like to eventually add a full theme editor to change all aspects of the UI.

Thanks :) Will add the comment score. Clicking the header to collapse is a good idea, I'll get that working too.

also the more I use this the more I like it, nice work :)

(I'm an HN-junkie)

highlighting the OP w/ a color was a nice touch btw

Looks like that's a bug, sorry about that. Will be fixed in the next update.

For reference, in the Pro version you can set the storage for your favorites to private (local browser storage) or public (HN profile). It's currently set to private storage for free users, but should be set to public (to save to your HN profile).

Good idea, thanks, I'll add that in the next version.

It's possible, but as I mentioned in another comment, building this as an extension has some added benefits [1].

> that way I don't have to bloat the browser's start-up time and don't have to "worry" about this extension spying on other websites, even though I realize it's unlikely

No need to worry about that, as it's limited by the permissions specified in the extension manifiest. So this extension can only access news.ycombinator.com and extensionpay.com to facilitate the Pro upgrade.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769145

I wish this were more of an SPA with an account system/db of it's own, I'd even pay for a subscription (small one). I'd basically like there to be a mobile app and desktop version that no matter where I read an article, it's marked read. I use materialize and hckrnews now, if both of these could keep track of the same bookmarks, visited links, and maybe allow note taking or creating groups of saved things, that'd be awesome. Also notifications and a messaging system like reddit has would be cool...in fact I just want a redditized HN experience lol.

Cool ideas! It would definitely be possible to build in a cloud sync feature at some point to enable those features.

Thanks for the heads up, will fix that in the next update.

Thanks, glad you like it :)

Can't see my karma :-(

It's in the user menu (icon top right). If you mean for your own comments, that's a bug and will be fixed in the next update.

There's some overhead, but not much. It basically just parses the underlying HTML as soon as it's loaded, then redraws it with added features.

Also no heavy frameworks used, just basic hand-coded JS + jquery + a few helper libraries (luxon for dates etc)

The post was about efficiency for the user, not for the computer.

Yeah I missed that, first thought was efficient performance!