To encourage reading more long form articles, this extension makes Hacker News and Lobsters more zen by doing the following things:
- When clicking on an article link, it will first load the comments, then load the article. Effectively adding the comments to the browser history for easy access.
- Add an option to hide points count
- Add an option to hide comment count
This change in behavior encourage the following experience:
- Click on an article
- Read the article
- Read the comments
Which provides a much more zen experience of reading.