The user-swatches are a good idea. I've been toying with a similar concept but applying it across the whole site. I really dislike how HN doesn't have avatars...I visually recognize avatars a lot easier than reading usernames.
I made a "highlight user's comments" script (https://github.com/polyfractal/HNHighlightUser), it'd be cool if you could incorporate something like that as well. Sometimes I want to quickly identify all the posts by a single person in a thread.
I made a "highlight user's comments" script (https://github.com/polyfractal/HNHighlightUser), it'd be cool if you could incorporate something like that as well. Sometimes I want to quickly identify all the posts by a single person in a thread.
Very nice work :)