Community TL;DR

A Chrome extension powered by AI to generate quick summaries of community discussions. Get insights from lengthy threads without reading through everything.

Currently released on the Chrome Web Store.

Features

• 🤖 AI-powered discussion summarization
• 🌐 Support for major communities (Hacker News, Reddit)
• 🌍 Multiple language support
  • English
  • Chinese (中文)
  • Japanese (日本語)
  • Korean (한국어)
• ⚙️ Flexible AI backend
  • Custom API endpoint
  • OpenAI API
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Cloudflare AI Worker
• 📱 Thread-level summaries with side-by-side view
• 🎯 Focus on key points and insights
• 📊 Smart content analysis and language translation

Supported Communities

Currently supported:

• ✅ Hacker News discussions
• ✅ Reddit threads

Coming soon:

• 🔄 Twitter threads
• 🔄 GitHub Discussions
• More suggestions welcome!

Installation

Chrome Web Store (Recommended)

1. Visit the Chrome Web Store page
2. Click "Add to Chrome"
3. Follow the installation prompts

Manual Installation (Development)

1. Clone the repository
2. Install dependencies: npm install
3. Build: npm run build
4. Load unpacked extension from dist folder

Configuration

1. Click the extension icon and go to Settings
2. Configure your AI service:
   • Custom Endpoint (recommended)
   • OpenAI
   • Anthropic (Claude)
   • Cloudflare AI Worker
3. Set your preferred:
   • Summary language
   • Summary length
   • Auto-summarize options
4. Save settings and start using

Usage

1. Visit a supported site (Hacker News or Reddit)
2. Click the extension icon or use the TL;DR button
3. Choose summarization options:
   • Full discussion summary
   • Individual thread summary
4. View summaries in the sidebar
5. Click summaries to navigate to original content

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Development build with watch mode
npm run dev

# Production build
npm run build

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See our Contributing Guide for:

• Adding new community support
• Improving summarization
• Bug fixes and feature enhancements
• Documentation improvements

Adding Support for New Communities

Check our Contributing Guide for:

• Architecture overview
• Parser implementation
• Testing requirements
• PR submission process

Roadmap

Phase 1: Core Feature Enhancement

Universal Content Support

• Generic webpage & article summarization
  • Basic article parsing engine
  • Support for common article layouts
  • Handling of dynamic content
• Email thread summarization
  • Gmail basic integration
  • Email thread parser
  • Plain text email support
• Additional community platforms
  • Twitter/X threads
  • GitHub Discussions
  • Stack Overflow Q&A

Self-hosted Web Version

• Basic web application
  • Docker deployment support
  • Simple URL input interface
  • Summary viewing & sharing
• Chrome extension sync capability
  • Local storage sync
  • Settings synchronization
  • History sync (optional)
• Basic API endpoints
  • Summary generation
  • URL processing
  • Health checks

Phase 2: Technical Improvements

Parser Framework Enhancement

• Modular parser architecture
  • Easy addition of new sources
  • Parser plugin system
  • Common parsing utilities
• Content extraction improvements
  • Better noise removal
  • Main content detection
  • Comment thread handling

AI Backend Flexibility

• Enhanced AI provider support
  • Improved prompt templates
  • Better error handling
  • Failover support
• Local AI model support
  • Basic local model integration
  • Offline capabilities
  • Model selection flexibility

Phase 3: Quality of Life Features

User Experience

• Improved summary formats
  • Bullet point summaries
  • Key points extraction
  • Source linking
• Basic customization
  • Summary length options
  • Language preferences
  • Style selection

Developer Experience

• Documentation improvements
  • Setup guides
  • API documentation
  • Contributing guidelines
• Development tooling
  • Testing frameworks
  • Development containers
  • Local development setup

Continuous Improvement

Core Functionality

• Performance optimization
• Bug fixes
• Code quality improvements
• Test coverage expansion

Community

• Issue template refinement
• Pull request guidelines
• Community support channels
• Regular maintenance updates

Privacy & Security

• No user data collection
• Local storage for settings only
• Secure API handling
• Privacy-focused design