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Stacker News Highlighter github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/811

2622 sats \ 9 comments \ @kr 12 Feb meta

Added a new Github issue today for what I think could be a fun new feature called Highlighter.

The TL;DR is that if you highlight a snippet of text on a post or comment, and then zap that item, your highlighted snippet is highlighted for all stackers to see.

Full details on Github.

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793 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 12 Feb

Very creative idea! I like it. One question-if the downzap idea is implemented, how would that effect zaprank of the post itself?

417 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 12 Feb

If the downzap highlighting part is implemented, the downzapping will have the same effect on an item’s zaprank as it does today.

the only difference would be that you’d see a red section of text which would highlight the part people disagreed with.

666 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Feb

I like this idea a lot. I think it will add a lot of value to the site.

815 sats \ 1 reply \ @MaxAWebster 13 Feb

Would love to see this! Very similar idea to what @pablof7z is exploring with highlighter.com. More details here.

Perhaps this could build off of the same NIP?

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 13 Feb

very cool, happy to see Pablo working on something similar already!

👀👀

551 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 13 Feb

Oh your title immediately caught my attention. Fun!

Also fun fact: Highlighting important words in yellow not only emphasises them, but also anchors them on a page. Some students experience visual crowding as they cannot make out the individual shapes of letters due to an excess of white. Yellow adds texture to the words and aids recognition.

551 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 13 Feb

The poor engineers supporting this through the 10 minute edit window lol

482 sats \ 1 reply \ @brandonsbytes 12 Feb

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 12 Feb

yup, exactly! the zaps and downzaps behave exactly the same, the only difference is that text gets highlighted in the process.