by "Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
Published 09/08/2017 at 11:00
by "Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
Published 09/08/2017 at 11:00
Tags: kinja
; chrome
; firefox
; extension
; comments
; commenting
; kinjamprove
STARS: 2
I’ve been test-driving “ Kinjamprove ” for the past couple of weeks, and holy cow, is it fantastic.
By now, you’ve already noticed The A.V. Club ’s arrival to Kinja. To help ease this transition for their old Disqus commenters, they recommended the use of this extension and included a link to it in their introductory post .
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Kinjamprove provides a one-click solution to the “show more comments” bar and its accompanying “haze”, “Pending” buttons, and “show more replies in this thread” buttons.
In addition to quickly loading comments and expanding threads, it also nests comments so that it’s easier to follow conversation flow. (I know that sometimes in long conversation threads, I’ve resorted to quoting comments so that readers will know not only to whom I’m replying, but to which comment I’m responding.)
This extension doesn’t automatically load ALL comments, though. You still have to click the “load more comments” bar to reveal a few more threads, and you still have to click it several times if there are a lot of comments. So it’s not really a full replacement for Kinja’s old “show all” option.
If you use
Chrome
[edit: or
Firefox
]
to browse Kinja, I highly recommend trying out Kinjamprove.
Shoutout to creator
Mark_Bowen
(hey maybe he should
join the Kinja team
...).
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"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
09/07/2017 at 12:03, STARS: 3
Ernie is only a Level 7!?!
"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
09/07/2017 at 12:10, STARS: 3
too bad it doesnt fix the fucking dashboard.
#kinjahelp
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
09/07/2017 at 12:12, STARS: 2
Wow, sounds like the AV club lots a lot of good things when it moved to Kinja. Really sucks that it was such a downgrade but at least there’s some validation in that we’re not the only ones that dislike it?
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
09/07/2017 at 12:14, STARS: 2
weLL i’LL TRY IT
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
09/07/2017 at 12:16, STARS: 7
Unreliable digital dashboards are very Jalop though.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
09/07/2017 at 12:20, STARS: 0
Test!
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
09/07/2017 at 12:21, STARS: 0
Test!
"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
09/07/2017 at 12:21, STARS: 2
Gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers.
"jimz" (jimz)
09/07/2017 at 12:30, STARS: 0
are font changes part of it?
"scoob" (scoobsti)
09/07/2017 at 12:32, STARS: 1
Yeah it looks pretty bad on my screen, but I think the nested comments are worth it.
"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
09/07/2017 at 12:32, STARS: 1
Appears to be. Much more readable and actual threading is pretty cool.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
09/07/2017 at 12:46, STARS: 0
Meh, I think I prefer the actual kinja format. It’s actually pretty great when it’s not broken.
On the other hand, square avatars. It’s actually a bit like old kinja.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
09/07/2017 at 13:03, STARS: 1
The only thing that bothers me about the nesting is that the further it skews, the harder it is to tell when you’ve scrolled down to the next thread. There aren’t any lines like Reddit, etc. use to keep track. You either have to use some kind of reference point on your screen to remember where the left-most column of avatars is, or keep a look-out for comments that are replies to the author.
"tromoly" (tromoly)
09/08/2017 at 10:28, STARS: 2
It’s out for Firefox, for those interested.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
09/08/2017 at 10:46, STARS: 0
Awesome! I’ll add a link to this post.
"Gizmodo®’s hypocrisy-lover" (maazkalim)
04/10/2018 at 22:42, STARS: 0
...Nickname??*