Boosts
Make the web yours
Small changes to the sites you use every day: hide Shorts, widen GitHub, read Hacker News at night. Open one in Cra, see what it changes, and keep it.
- boosts
- 11
- sites
- 5
- checked
- 11
The gallery
With the BoostWithoutHacker NewsWorksHide Points
Hides the points on stories, so you pick by title, not by votes.
With the BoostWithoutHacker NewsWorksNight
Hacker News in dark colours, pictures left as they are.
With the BoostWithoutHacker NewsWorksReadable
A narrower column with bigger text and more space between stories and comments.
With the BoostWithoutYouTubeWorksHide Shorts
Hides Shorts shelves in search and on Home, and Shorts in the side menu.
With the BoostWithoutYouTubeWorksNo Comments
Hides the comments under every video.
With the BoostWithoutYouTubeWorksNo Up Next
Hides the column of suggested videos beside the one you're watching.
With the BoostWithoutRedditWorksHide Promoted
Hides promoted posts in feeds and ads between comments.
With the BoostWithoutRedditWorksNo Sidebar
Hides the right-hand column of community info and suggestions.
With the BoostWithoutWikipediaWorksBook
Articles in Palatino, a little larger, like a printed page.
With the BoostWithoutWikipediaWorksFull Width
Articles use the whole window instead of a fixed column.
With the BoostWithoutGitHubWorksFull Width
Repositories, issues and pull requests use the whole window.
Hacker News
YouTube
Reddit
WikipediaLook only, every time
A Boost from the gallery or from a link changes how a site looks. It can’t do anything else.
- No code runs
- Gallery Boosts are colours, fonts, text size, hidden parts and CSS. A shared Boost’s JavaScript never leaves the Mac it was made on.
- Nothing loads
- CSS that would fetch from the web, like url() or @import, is refused. A Boost can’t send what you type anywhere.
- Cra asks first
- Open in Cra shows what the Boost changes and on which site. Nothing is added until you say Add Boost.
- A person reads each one
- Every gallery Boost is a pull request to Cra’s open-source repo, tried on its site before it’s listed.
Made one worth sharing?
- 01
Make it in Cra
On any site, type New Boost in the command bar. Recolour it, change the font, Zap what you don’t want.
- 02
Share Boost…
Right-click it in Library ▸ Boosts. The link carries the whole Boost, so anyone with Cra can add it from there.
- 03
Send it to the gallery
The link’s page has Send to the Gallery: GitHub opens with your Boost filled in, ready for a pull request.