It's a nice idea, but I have mostly stopped using/installing any software that is not open-source a long time ago. So, please open-source it, especially if you want users to truly trust it.

Even then, I would recommend anyone to install (small to mid) browser extensions by cloning and inspecting the source and just then loading it yourself - if you don't know: any browser extension can read input/password fields across all site(s) you gave it access to (yeah, it's crazy but unfortunately true).

Interesting idea, wondering if the 4 bars are a good way to evaluate accounts.

Some more thoughts:

1. The website needs a description of what this project even is.

2. Open-source the code, especially since it's just for the community, I'd be vary of installing "some random" extension from the store.

3. The modal element in the iFrame on the website is cutoff on mobile widths using Firefox.

Interesting, but how is the trust signal measured? I couldn’t find this information

The problem with having a public trust score is that it'll be gamed by bad actors A/B testing their bots surely.

Does anyone have an archive.is? Page hasn't been loading the 4 times I tried over the course of an hour.

Found one: https://web.archive.org/web/20260328080015/https://hn-trusts...

Great idea.

I think friend/foe and trust signals should come from a user's voting. So I think it should operate transparently to the user and there should be a default shade-out option of bad actors, but with the option to view. So it's set-and-forget. On the backend - could you make it so if you've never visited HN before, and you install the plugin, the experience changes accordingly?

I had the idea to setup a forum somewhere else - this sort of functionality would come in handy as part of normal operation.

I wouldn’t call four bars a sparkline.

Suggestion: instead of just popping in the computed graphic add a placeholder immediately - four low grey bars should work well, in the same width as the final sparkline graphics. That way the text on the page will not jump later when the final sparklines are ready.

This should have at least a basic description of how the trust signal works and is calculated

Great idea! I've been running my own chrome plugin I made that is similar, but recently discovered this: https://oj-hn.com/ and intend to start to contribute to it as it's very good and hope it grows. Something like Sparklines would be great in oj also for us chrome users, I really like the Sparklines implementation.

I considered something like this but I find the UX of information too noisy. In practice, I much prefer simply performing a ternary block/leave alone/highlight functionality. And it's comments that bother me more than links.

Where can I see mine?

After attention, are we now in the trust economy… a brilliant idea for a plugin - thank you!

Great way to gatekeep new contributors trying to be helpful with news. Run the link through URL Scan if you’re paranoid…

I don't know what trust signals or sparklines are

No, thank you.

this UX is basically the (not so clever) equivalent of that blue tick status signal nonsense they have on insta ..