GraphFi + user tags chrome extension

March 28, 2017 2:34 PM

Hi friends, Remember when yourcelf made GraphFi and it was great? Well, it still is great, only now it is also available as a chrome extension that I threw together. I've also added another thing that I've always wanted to make threads easier to follow - user tagging! Yay! Enjoy it (or hate it), and let me know what you think! Previous safari extension by nicwolff.
posted by durandal to MetaFilter-Related at 2:34 PM (12 comments total)

Aw geez - this page has revealed a bug in the thing - I've fixed it and am waiting for it to publish, but you'll want to make sure that the extension has bumped to 1.0.3 or that you update.

Don't tell hacker news!
posted by durandal at 2:53 PM on March 28, 2017

Is there documentation? I've installed it, but I can't tell if it's working.
posted by jjwiseman at 5:59 PM on March 28, 2017

jjwiseman: what theme are you using? When I first installed it, there was no visible effect (modern theme, dark mode), but after I switched to classic it worked.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 8:45 PM on March 28, 2017

Starting to regret putting a garish blue TEST TAG next to my username... the "Edit tag" link doesn't appear to let me change or delete it.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 8:57 PM on March 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

(Neither does removing and reinstalling the extension...)
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 9:03 PM on March 28, 2017

I just want to say that GraphFi has made me able to follow along the political megathreads and also still have a life, and I'm very very thankful for it.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 9:11 PM on March 28, 2017

Apologies for that, Jpfed - introduced a new bug tracking down another one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. If you update it it should work as expected now, and play a bit nicer with other themes. thanks!
posted by durandal at 7:01 AM on March 29, 2017 [1 favorite]

Yay! All better. Thanks for this!
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 7:30 AM on March 29, 2017 [1 favorite]

What happens if you use this in a politics thread?
posted by Going To Maine at 10:56 AM on March 29, 2017

I tried the new version and it still didn't work. I looked at the source code and saw that it only works for https://*.metafilter.com, which means that it won't work unless you have "Use secure browsing?" checked in your preferences. But once I did that, it worked!
posted by jjwiseman at 11:15 AM on March 29, 2017 [2 favorites]

Going to Maine: there are hundreds and hundreds of one-liner comments that amount to "RARGH", using graphFi I quickly scroll to comments with the most favorites, where the juicy content is.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 12:04 PM on March 30, 2017 [1 favorite]

I've noticed a bug! When you scroll down on a page and the top menu bar collapses, usually there's a little head icon there you can click to navigate to recent activity, memail, preferences, etc. But once you visit a thread and the graphfi box shows up (automatically), it disappears. Clicking the x on the graphfi sidebar disappears that navigation icon from the top menu bar completely, and doesn't show back up again until you visit a non-thread page.
posted by phunniemee at 8:27 PM on April 13, 2017