Show HN: GitHub-like reply with "R" for Basecamp and Slack
Hello HN! I wrote a browser extension (also available as a userscript) that allows to insert quotes into site's reply message box using selected text + hitting 'r' (as it's done on Github). It targets only specific sites (basecamp.com, slack.com), because that's what we use at our company daily. The idea came out of my boss (who's also a good friend of mine) frustration. He always complained that Basecamp's replies are so inconvenient compared to Github's way. You have to select the quote, copy
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points · 1 votes
2026-11-05 21:15:31.861Z
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Repository: nashbridges/dial-r-for-reply. Source account: Hello HN! I wrote a browser extension (also available as a userscript) that allows to insert quotes into site's reply message box using selected text + hitting 'r' (as it's done on Github). It targets only specific sites (basecamp.com, slack.com), because that's what we use at our company daily. The idea came out of my boss (who's also a good friend of mine) frustration. He always complained that Basecamp's replies are so inconvenient compared to Github's way. You have to select the quote, copy
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Source votes: 1 votes (Nov 5, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “astral-sh/ruff” (GitHub Trending, Nov 6, 2026); “microsoft/vscode” (GitHub Trending, Nov 6, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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