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Do not miss posts from your favorite people on HN

by doganengin on 3/1/21, 6:50 PM with 4 comments

Hi folks,

I wrote a browser extension that highlights/tags the posts from your favorite HN’ers.

Go to the profile of someone and assign a tag to the user. All future posts from that user will be marked/tagged on HN going forward. It is super easy and will help you follow your favorite people in HN.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-cat/hhiomokjlngphblpfnccjckmkcpjjfmb

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/tr/firefox/addon/social-cat/

Cheers

  • by eat_veggies on 3/1/21, 6:53 PM

    This would be better as a Show HN post :)

    P.S. I built something very similar years ago: https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends

  • by crazypython on 3/1/21, 7:23 PM

    This would be better as a site (not a chrome extension– too much friction) that lets you follow your favorite HN users and see their posts, filtering by score optionally.

    "Favoriting" a comment or HN post on HN ( a native HN feature ) could automatically follow the user. Just enter your username and go.

  • by giantg2 on 3/1/21, 8:50 PM

    I guess I'm a pessimist, but won't this help people put you on a list so that they can find your posts/comments to grudge-downvote you?