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Changelog: Zen Mode

Ben Halpern on May 13, 2019

I loved this post from a while ago: DEV zen mode: userscript Dmitry Yakimenko ・ Feb 20 '19 ...
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Jake Wesorick

Really great quality of life feature! What about implementing both? (Heart if you don't have a num pad.)

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Ben Halpern

Yeah, that probably makes sense. The non-numpad zero works all the same. I also feel like the m button also might make sense as "minimize".

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Dmitry Yakimenko

I used shift because I use Vimium and most of the single letter shortcuts are bound to something. So shortcuts like ‘m‘ would not be available for people using Vimium or Vimperator.

Great job, though!

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Dídac

Although I like how simple it is I think I will like to see the article in the center of the screen doing it maybe with some smooth transition.

Really like this feature!

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Ady Ngom

Awesome just tried it and it made the focus on the article great. Nice and 'simple' :) Quick question what is the best way to ask for a feature request on the platform?

Thanks again

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Jess Lee

Hey @adyngom -- you can share feature requests by creating an issue in our repo:
github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...

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Ady Ngom

Perfect Jess thank you 😊

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Dan Vega

Awesome, love the feature!

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Ken Bellows

Hm, my numpad-0 doesn't seem to work, though the top-of-the-keyboard-0 does. Windows 7 Pro desktop, Chrome 74, Microsoft keyboard. I can file a GH issue if desired

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Carles Mata

It's the same in Chromium 73 in Fedora Linux. It works with top 0 but not with numpad-0. Strange..

Great functionality anyways!

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Sung M. Kim

You are onto something.

Maybe we can have keyboard shortcuts to navigate dev.to? 😉
(Configurable kinda like it is in VS Code)

And it'd be universally accessible too 😃

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Dmitry Yakimenko

Check out Vimium or Vimperator. Then you can navigate any website with the keyboard.

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Sung M. Kim

Thanks, Dmitry.
Looks like another reason to start learning VIM ;)

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Dmitry Yakimenko

You don't need to know or learn VIM in order to use it. I don't and I'm not going to. It does have some VIM specific weird things, but the basic features are easily usable with zero VIM knowledge.

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Jonathan Speek

This is absolutely excellent 🥰

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Florian Rand

Awesome! <3

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jesús gollonet

Love it! And love the one letter shortcut (vimium-spoiled), It does disable cmd+0 for zooming back to 100%, but i can live with that

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Devin

Nice!

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Vicent

That's a pretty nice feature! HoweverI found a bug. When you navigate to one of the articles at the bottom it reveals the asides of the article but the top bar stays hidden. When the 0 button is pressed again that elements toggle.

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Craig Nicol (he/him)

Not working for me :'(

Firefox, Windows 10