Script Summary: Annotate Hacker News conversations with current comment count links, for visited link freshness.
What? Why?
Annotate active discussion links with a comment counter variable (&nc=#ofcomments).
Why? Previously visited discussions that have been added to after the last visit will appear unvisited.
This idea is based on LiveJournal's NCTalkLinks feature (opt_nctalklinks).
Motivation
I am a fan of the Hacker News OnePage script. One of the features is a style change for visited links to be high-contrast. This is helpful to see which links I have already followed. However, the benefit of Hacker
News is often the active discussions. I would prefer to easily tell if a conversation I have followed has been added to since my last refresh.
Go from here?
This functionality could be integrated into the OnePage. However, there may exist a subset of HN users who would just like this functionality or OnePage users who do not care for it. This was a quick hack to scratch an itch.
Comments are most appropriately added to the Hacker News discussion about this script.
