Compatibility with other hacker news extensions

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Investigate what these extensions do under the hood and if it's feasible to be compatible with them on top of the native UI.

Top examples:

• Modern for Hacker News
• Hacker News UX
• Refined Hacker News

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Findings

• HNRelevant seems compatible with Refined Hacker News

Problems

• Modern for Hacker News completely reconstruct the DOM and can be considered a new frontend all together.
• Hacker News UX also alter the DOM and uses a unique design that split the screen in half and makes it hard to integrate as is.

Possible fix

Some solutions that could work without relying on custom designs:

• Sidebar that takes a cut from the page and leave the rest
• Hamburger menu that slide in/out

Advantages:

• Fix incompatibility with other extensions and allow more people to use both at the same time
• Keep the current integration with HN mostly untouched since we can detect its native interface

Disadvantages:

• Slightly ruin atheistic, feel out of place (only when used with other extensions).
• It will make the extension slightly more complex and harder to test.