There was a plugin that allowed highlighting text on any web page, adding comments, and having threaded conversations based on groups… it was kind of cool, too bad it didn’t take off.
EDIT 2: I found my old account and the test annotations I’d done (and group definitions) still work! Guess this is still a working thing, worth exploring more.
This is very ‘meta’ – we should perhaps start a lemmy community to discuss what sites and groups to form, to use it on other sites. There could even be a lemmy group to comment on lemmy… or something :p
Here, I created a group for lemmy discussions! Hah.
Years ago https://web.hypothes.is/ used to let one annotate any website, but it appears now they are focused on only student/educational usage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothes.is
There was a plugin that allowed highlighting text on any web page, adding comments, and having threaded conversations based on groups… it was kind of cool, too bad it didn’t take off.
https://ucatt.arizona.edu/news/using-free-version-hypothesis
EDIT 1: I’ll be darned, the Chrome extension still exists… https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hypothesis-web-pdf-annota/bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek
EDIT 2: I found my old account and the test annotations I’d done (and group definitions) still work! Guess this is still a working thing, worth exploring more.
It still works and I still use it. Every so often I even run into other people’s public comments in the wild.
https://via.hypothes.is/
This is very ‘meta’ – we should perhaps start a lemmy community to discuss what sites and groups to form, to use it on other sites. There could even be a lemmy group to comment on lemmy… or something :p
Here, I created a group for lemmy discussions! Hah.
https://hypothes.is/groups/yN2iWLpz/lemmy-meta
Never heard of it, but I was into pmog/the nethernet instead which was kinda similar but I more exploration oriented
This is awesome.
I recommend pasting this into TamperMonkey to have the Hypothesis controls display on every page.
Neat, thanks.
Is it OSS?
I just browsed a few of the component projects on github and it seems they’re BSD-licensed…