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Comment author: Wei_Dai 10 September 2010 07:27:28AM *  16 points [-]

An Alternative To "Recent Comments"

For those who may be having trouble keeping up with "Recent Comments" or finding the interface a bit plain, I've written a Greasemonkey script to make it easier/prettier. Here is a screenshot.

Explanation of features:

  • loads and threads up to 400 most recent comments on one screen
  • use [↑] and [↓] to mark favored/disfavored authors
  • comments are color coded based on author/points (pink) and recency (yellow)
  • replies to you are outlined in red
  • hover over [+] to view single collapsed comment
  • hover over/click [^] to highlight/scroll to parent comment
  • marks comments read (grey) based on scrolling
  • shows only new/unread comments upon refresh
  • date/time are converted to your local time zone
  • click comment date/time for permalink

To install, first get Greasemonkey, then click here. Once that's done, use this link to get to the reader interface.

ETA: I've placed the script is in the public domain. Chrome is not supported.

Comment author: andreas 10 September 2010 09:08:56PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for coding this!

Currently, the script does not work in Chrome (which supports Greasemonkey out of the box).

Comment author: Wei_Dai 10 September 2010 10:07:44PM *  1 point [-]

From http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/user-scripts

  • Chromium does not support @require, @resource, unsafeWindow, GM_registerMenuCommand, GM_setValue, or GM_getValue
  • GM_xmlhttpRequest is same-origin only

My script uses 4 out of these 6 features, and also cross-domain GM_xmlhttpRequest (the comments are actually loaded from a PHP script hosted elsewhere, because LW doesn't seem to provide a way to grab 400 comments at once), so it's going to have to stay Firefox-only for the time being.

Oh, in case anyone developing LW is reading this, I release my script into the public domain, so feel free to incorporate the features into LW itself.

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