Hacker News User Tags is a Tampermonkey userscript which allows the user to associate a custom coloured label/tag on usernames throughout Hacker News.
- Press the Tampermonkey extension button on your browser's toolbar and select Create a new script
- Copy and paste the contents of
dist/userscript.jsinto the newly opened tab, and press Save
Click a user's profile link to display the tagging controls. You can author both a custom label/tag for the user, as well as select a colour for the label.
All data is stored locally.
Color picker does not automatically close on Firefox
The <input type="color"> element in Firefox uses device-native UI controls, which does not always honor changes to the page. There are not any known work-arounds, and the color picker will need to be closed manually.