Comments on: Shoutout: matthewr's MeFi comment navigator

Shoutout: matthewr's MeFi comment navigator

drpynchon — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 03:57:00 -0800

This script is awesome, and makes MetaFilter a better place.

Just wanted to say thank you, matthewr.

By: matthewr

matthewr — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:05:06 -0800

Thanks! Glad you found it useful.

By: filmgeek

filmgeek — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:28:39 -0800

Drpynchon, thanks for calling this out too...

Matthewr, that's really cool. Thanks.

By: Gator

Gator — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:41:57 -0800

That does look pretty awesome.

For anyone who's using it, do any of those actions (like clicking "top" or using "comment navigation") have any effect on the comment box? That is, if you're typing a comment, and you start clicking around, it won't accidentally erase what you've already typed, will it?

By: drpynchon

drpynchon — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:48:18 -0800

It works while you're typing your comment without mucking things up, but once you comment preview, the script turns off on the preview screen. That's the only thing missing. Otherwise it's been running like Mussolini's trains thus far.

By: jpburns

jpburns — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 05:00:56 -0800

Couldn't this be implemented in JavaScript, on the site?

Just wondering for us non-FireFox folks (yes... we exist).

By: matthewr

matthewr — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 05:44:20 -0800

drpynchon: I hardly ever use the preview page, so it hadn't occurred to me to make it work there. I think the script will need a tiny bit of modification, but I can't do that right now - maybe tonight (GMT) or tomorrow. Stay tuned.

By: peacay

peacay — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:15:26 -0800

Anyone try this while using metafilthy? And..?

By: filmgeek

filmgeek — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:39:57 -0800

matthewr,

there's a javascript Metafilter Asynchronos Flagging that this seems to (possibly) break. Also on Userscripts.org

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:46:04 -0800

OMG. How useful is this!

Thank you mathewr. This is just what I've been waiting for.

By: Saucy Intruder

Saucy Intruder — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:46:58 -0800

Very nice. But can someone hack it to remove the dropdown boxes?

By: ?!

?! — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:11:20 -0800

Hmmm. installed it and I'm not getting results. I don't view the blue, but opt for the white. Am I out of luck?

(Firefox 1.0.7, and I've tried it with metafilthy on and off)

By: ?!

?! — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:15:48 -0800

It was Firefox...updated to 1.5.0.1 and now it works.

Thanks.

By: matthewr

matthewr — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:19:10 -0800

?!: I just tried it on the white, and it worked fine. Probably the problem is that you've got FF 1.0.7. If you want to fix it now, upgrading to Firefox 1.5 and the appropriate GreaseMonkey version should do the job.

If you're happy to wait, I'll download 1.0.7 and see what I can do.

By: matthewr

matthewr — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:20:02 -0800

I really should use preview...

By: matteo

matteo — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:45:16 -0800

very interesting, excellent. thanks

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:15:08 -0800

Very cool. Thanks matthewr. And drpynchon for pointing it out.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:37:30 -0800

excellent, thanks mathewr!

By: matthewr

matthewr — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:34:41 -0800

filmgeek: I've found a fix for the conflict with Plutor's asynchronous flagging script. It's a bit cheeky though, because it modifies his script rather than mine!

Go the last line of his script, which should just say init(), and replace this with window.addEventListener("load",init,false);

That fixed it for me. However, as a solution, it's less than ideal since it involves modifying someone else's script. The problem, as far as I can tell, is that the event listeners he attaches to each flag link somehow aren't being attached (or are being overwritten).

By: terrapin

terrapin — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:38:23 -0800

The dropdowns are a bit of a distraction, but they serve a neat purpose. Certainly better than (1, 2, 3, 4 .......17) in some of the more .... heated threads.

cheers, matthewr

By: matthewr

matthewr — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:43:00 -0800

To fix the conflict with Plutor's flagging script:

If you want to do what I just suggested, you'll need to know where the scripts are stored locally. They're in the gm_scripts folder in your Firefox profile folder, which can be found here (on XP):

C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXXXXX.default\

where the X's are just random numbers and letters.

By: MiamiDave

MiamiDave — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:05:28 -0800

Very helpful, matthewr! And, FWIW, the script works perfectly on both my Mac and Windows boxes. Thanks again.

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:39:55 -0800

It's a good thing we had that redesign contest!

By: scarabic

scarabic — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:40:21 -0800

Couldn't this be implemented in JavaScript, on the site?

Nope. Impossible.

Of course it could :) It would take time, design, and desire on Matt's part. He's been content to tell people to just whip up a Greasemonkey script for this or that missing feature in the past, though. If people really dig this functionality on a large scale, perhaps we can win him over.

Nice script, mattewr - but more importantly: good ideas behind it.

By: signal

signal — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:58:55 -0800

Breaks metafilthy on FF1.5.0.1 for windows.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:07:54 -0800

I've been using this script since it was posted to metafilter projects but it just does not wory reliably at all with Firefox 1.0.7. Nor does the flagging script. Upgrading is not an option for me right now. This sucks.

By: Julia Gill

Julia Gill — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:26:03 -0800

'Artists of every medium' thread from 2-25 -- it looks like none of you are online/writing at the moment: cortex, shmegegge, loquacious, jessamyn, etc. -- my 'weird MetaTalk post' was the result of a neophyte's entry into the MeFi world. Thanks for being kind and offering helpful info on how MetaFilter works. Matt also emailed me directly. To be more accurate, I rewrote my statement as two questions and will post to AskMeFi.

By: matthewr

matthewr — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:36:40 -0800

Signal and peacay: I'll download MetaFilthy and see what I can do.

Rhomboid: I'm installing 1.0.7 to try and fix this for you, but I'll have to get 1.0.7 to coexist peacefully with 1.5 before I make any progress. Meanwhile: what version of GreaseMonkey are you running?

Julia Gill: Good luck!

By: Julia Gill

Julia Gill — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:11:22 -0800

Matthew: Thanks, but I struck out again by referencing my website in a post at AskMeFi. It's clear, the best action is to make a swift retreat to reading, not writing, in the MetaFilter world.

By: Gamblor

Gamblor — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:34:04 -0800

Great idea. Thank you for this. I wish I had known about this yesterday before trying to follow glider's posting marathon in this thread.

By: stopgap

stopgap — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:07:35 -0800

Great script! Just FYI matthewr, I have my MeFi preferences to launch links in a new tab, and this seems to carry over to the little arrow links for next/previous comment. Perhaps those links should get a target="_self".

By: matthewr

matthewr — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:22:29 -0800

stopgap: Done! You can now download the modified script from the same place.

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:40:03 -0800

Pretty spiffy!

By: stopgap

stopgap — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:21:24 -0800

Great, thanks!

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:56:12 -0800

I am running GM 0.5.3 which would seem to be the last version that works with Fx 1.0.x. I really would like to upgrade but I have a long list of required extensions and I have not yet finished determining whether all of them have been ported to Fx 1.5 yet. Maybe this is the kick in the pants that I need to get underway...

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:12:16 -0800

Rhomboid, the vast majority of extension compatibility problems are caused by a lack of compatible Firefox version numbers listed in the extension itself. Most often the extensions need no "porting," but simply an update to the current version number. For extensions that aren't updated frequently, you can use the Nightly Tester Tools to force compatibility.

By: Incharitable Dog

Incharitable Dog — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:05:40 -0800

This is nifty.
That is all.

:-)

(Thanks for the hard work, matthewr - it's a really useful script! Even if I did have to Google "grease monkey" to find out what it was...)

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:13:25 -0800

Awesome. Thank you matthewr!

By: Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:06:02 -0800

What we need is an XML feed that we can apply our own user-supplied XSLT stylesheets to.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:34:40 -0800

I might have to install Greasemonkey again to give this a go. Looks very useful. Thanks!

By: Mijo Bijo

Mijo Bijo — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:59:47 -0800

Great script, matthewr. Thanks!

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:07:30 -0800

Shit, matthewr, that's quite a userscript. (But I've removed it from my own browser after about ten minutes, since the buttons-and-icons-to-actual-use ratio is rather high.)

By: chunking express

chunking express — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:42:10 -0800

This is pretty damn cool I would have to say. Well done!

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:28:00 -0800

Awesome. Makes me long for Metafilthy.

By: Firas

Firas — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:24:55 -0800

These things need to go on some page on the unofficial Mefi wiki. Don't make me make one and then make a MeTa post about it to collect the rest of the scripts out there. You do it. Yes, reader: you. (Not because I'm lazy, but because I've posted to MeTa too much already.)

By: matthewr

matthewr — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:45:29 -0800

Just a word of advice: switch this script off (right click on the monkey) before visiting the uber-thread, 9622. It wasn't built to handle 1729-comment threads (one user has 295 comments there!). Copes fine with most other huge threads, though. YMMV.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:58:07 -0800

Been using it a few days and loving it! Thanks matthewr.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:39:44 -0800

Very cool.

By: matteo

matteo — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:09:52 -0800

it works very well, thanks

By: grahamwell

grahamwell — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:51:09 -0800

It's wonderful. If anyone has errors (like me) of the form ...

"0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: JS frame :: chrome://greasemonkey/content/utils.js

.. there is a solution here (it's nothing to do with your script).

By: JHarris

JHarris — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:19:20 -0800

For some reason, it doesn't seem to work for me? I don't see any changes.

By: matthewr

matthewr — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:58:37 -0800

I could try to fix it, JHarris. What versions of Firefox and Greasemonkey are you using? Do you have Metafilthy (or similar) installed? What other GM scripts are running on MeFi pages? (To check, go to a MeFi thread, and right-click the monkey. 'MeFi Navigator' should appear, and must be ticked).

Could you do the following to see if there are any Javascript errors:
1. Go to Tools > Javascript Console.
2. Click the 'All' tab, and then click 'Clear'.
3. Go to a recent Metafilter thread (not the homepage).
4. Reopen the console. What's there? (make sure the 'All' button is selected).

By: JHarris

JHarris — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:28:21 -0800

I have no other Greasemonkey scripts running, in fact...

Wait a moment, there they are. Nevermind.