Greasemonkey deleted posts scipt

April 16, 2011 6:36 PM

Is anyone else have problems with the Deleted Posts Greasemonkey script? It has stopped working at home (osx 10.4) and at work (ubuntu).

I really love reading the deleted threads, even just the doubles. It's a small pleasure but I savor it.

posted by kittensofthenight to MetaFilter-Related at 6:36 PM (60 comments total)

I was just noticing this. I think it's because pb was adding some markup information to make userscripts work better (LO, IRONY) so I think Plutor just needs to update the script.
posted by shakespeherian at 6:38 PM on April 16, 2011

Er... hereabouts.
posted by shakespeherian at 6:40 PM on April 16, 2011

Whoa. YES!

I didn't realize it wasn't working. Thought the mods were experiencing a light weekend. (If you don't count the Scott Adams thing)
posted by zarq at 6:44 PM on April 16, 2011

Also, it looks like the Deleted Threads blog is no longer being updated.
posted by zarq at 6:46 PM on April 16, 2011

Oh, so that's why no one's complained about me yet!
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 6:53 PM on April 16, 2011 [9 favorites]

I don't know if it's related or not, but I have had problems with Plutor's ScrollTag script the last couple of days, too.
posted by briank at 6:54 PM on April 16, 2011

I've been having a different issue for the past couple days. I think either the Navigator script or the Scroll Tag script make it so the new comment count on the the front page is actually accurate. While it's still working for me on Metafilter and AskMe, it's fucked up on MetaTalk's front page. Having said that, it's working fine on the Recent Comments page of MeTa. This was happening for me site-wide a few weeks back when I updated to the new Scroll Tag script. Reverting to an older version fixed the problem, but now it's back. Any ideas?
posted by gman at 6:54 PM on April 16, 2011

will, this just sucks! The deleted threads are the best part sometimes!
posted by tomswift at 6:56 PM on April 16, 2011 [3 favorites]

I'd noticed this as well as other MeFi userscripts not working. I assumed that updating to FF4 had fucked with my Greasemonkey.

I really love reading the deleted threads, even just the doubles. It's a small pleasure but I savor it.

TRUTH.
posted by auto-correct at 6:59 PM on April 16, 2011 [1 favorite]

I have so many scripts running that I'm not sure which one is causing trouble. All of them seem to be working fine in-thread, but the one that keeps track of where I am in threads has completely stopped working when I'm outside threads.
posted by Dumsnill at 7:00 PM on April 16, 2011

ScrollTag is working fine for me, except that when you hit the newish 'Show new comments' thing the scroll tag doesn't recognize them. Which isn't a big deal and is probably not fixable.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:04 PM on April 16, 2011

Navigator also has problems with the Show New Comments. I have to reload the page to get it to work for the new comments that appear. So, half the time I'm reading I think it's broken, and then I remember and hit F5 and it's fixed.
posted by donnagirl at 7:09 PM on April 16, 2011

Mine's broken too. I was ready to blame Firefox4 as well. Not just me then? (the scroll tag and new comments thingy seem to work for me, for what it's worth)
posted by Eumachia L F at 7:11 PM on April 16, 2011

Whoops.
posted by crunchland at 7:48 PM on April 16, 2011

While we're on the subject, what happened to the Deleted Thread Blog? It hasn't been updated since March 29.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 8:03 PM on April 16, 2011

I think one person (I want to say puke & cry) updates it by hand.
posted by cj_ at 8:25 PM on April 16, 2011

BTW, this is an easy fix. the <div class="copy"> changed to <div class="copy post">. The script needs that fixed in 3 places.
posted by cj_ at 8:49 PM on April 16, 2011

I tried that and got just the deletion reason showing up. If I "hide" the deleted posts, I get a link to click to them anyway.
posted by telstar at 9:52 PM on April 16, 2011

Firefox user here. I used to check out deletedthread.blogspot.com but that stopped updating on 29 March. So I added greasemonkey to Firefox and everything was fine and dandy. Now broken here as well.
posted by Mister Bijou at 11:05 PM on April 16, 2011

Huh. Weird. Yeah, it's sort of working after the fixes, though all I'm really getting is a hidden deleted post with a link to the post itself by post ID, with no context (i.e., no deletion reason, nothing of the original post on the front page), and "show" removes the link to the deleted post and shows only the reason. Either it's still a bit wonky or I did something wrong and will make myself feel pretty stupid. It's odd, but it's sort of working, and I suspect it would be one of those things that I'd easily get used to because it just adds one click for me.
posted by neewom at 11:09 PM on April 16, 2011

For what its worth, Firefox is 3.6.16 (Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical 1.0).
posted by Mister Bijou at 11:11 PM on April 16, 2011

...rereading, my last post doesn't make a lot of sense. Example, after changing the script a tiny, tiny bit:

Deleted Post: 102600

with no associated info as before, such as the actual text of the deleted post. Click "show," and:

This post was deleted for the following reason:

with deletion reason, naturally, but no longer any link to the deleted post itself. Easy to get used to, just odd, and I can't help having a tiny feeling that I've just managed to use a completely different script than I was using.
posted by neewom at 11:19 PM on April 16, 2011

Plutor: The scroll tag script has stopped working on the gray. I just re-installed it. Works fine on the blue and green, though.
posted by Dumsnill at 11:38 PM on April 16, 2011

You may not have changed everything. You need to change both of these:

    $("div[class=copy post] span[class=smallcopy]:has(a[href*=/user/]) a:contains(comment)," +
      "div[class=copy post] span[class=smallcopy]:has(a[href*=/user/]) a:contains(answer)")

And also this:

            var post = thread.parents("div[class=copy post]");

Works fine for me after that. I'd post a version but I don't want to step on Plutor's toes. I'm sure he'll be around to update it shortly.
posted by cj_ at 11:45 PM on April 16, 2011

I usually just Memail Plutor directly when I notice one of his scripts has stopped working. He's really nice and usually pretty quick to get them to work. :)
posted by IndigoRain at 12:54 AM on April 17, 2011 [1 favorite]

In fact, one time I Memailed him just to say hi and he was like, "is this a hint that one of the scripts have stopped working?" hahaha. :)
posted by IndigoRain at 12:55 AM on April 17, 2011 [2 favorites]

It's nice to know/see what scripts other people are using. I've also noticed that the multiuser/multifavorite width thingy doesn't update with the new 'show new comments' site feature (for the new comments, obvs), but I suspect little can be done about that. Page refresh works just fine I suppose.
posted by iamkimiam at 1:33 AM on April 17, 2011

I am sad because I can't one-click to read long threads in Instapaper any more. Of course, that is barely relevant to your sadness, but it does make me feel all sympathetic and stuff.
posted by Sallyfur at 3:23 AM on April 17, 2011

Noticed this yesterday, so I tried it in Chrome as well and it was broke there too.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 4:33 AM on April 17, 2011

Works fine for me after that.

Thanks, cj_. Fixed it for me too.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 4:37 AM on April 17, 2011

Sorry, everyone. Melismata alerted me that this was broken on Friday, but various IRL events have conspired to prevent me from doing much to look into it. Big thanks to cj_ for the fix, especially since it means I don't have to go back into the XPath documentation. I used it almost verbatim (although I also made sure to add the post class to the deleted posts it creates.)

Anyhow, the fixed version is available in the usual place.
posted by Plutor at 4:38 AM on April 17, 2011 [8 favorites]

Cheers Plutor.
posted by Eumachia L F at 4:55 AM on April 17, 2011

Geez Plutor, now thanks to you, we can have Restless Nomad deal with her first WHY WAS MY POST DELETED person!
posted by wheelieman at 5:38 AM on April 17, 2011

Thanks, Plutor!
posted by Mister Bijou at 7:03 AM on April 17, 2011

Anyhow, the fixed version is available in the usual place.

I'm getting a 502 error, even clicking on "How do I use this?"
This may be because I'm a chrome user.
posted by Obscure Reference at 7:27 AM on April 17, 2011

My 502 went away. Thanks, if someone fixed something.
posted by Obscure Reference at 7:35 AM on April 17, 2011

But seriously, why does the Scroll Tag work on the blue and green but not here?
posted by Dumsnill at 7:55 AM on April 17, 2011

Try again on the 502 errors...I got one first time; second time OK.
posted by UbuRoivas at 7:59 AM on April 17, 2011

Thanks very much, Plutor.
posted by crunchland at 8:03 AM on April 17, 2011

Yes, thanks - also for the original script in the first place!
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:08 AM on April 17, 2011

Yes, thankyouthankyouthankyou Plutor!!!!! I so adore this script.
posted by Melismata at 8:29 AM on April 17, 2011

Thanks!
posted by rtha at 10:04 AM on April 17, 2011

Thanks Plutor and cj_!
posted by kittensofthenight at 10:26 AM on April 17, 2011

Thanks Plutor! That script is the best.
posted by CunningLinguist at 10:30 AM on April 17, 2011

"I'm getting a 502 error, even clicking on "How do I use this?""
"My 502 went away. Thanks, if someone fixed something."
"Try again on the 502 errors...I got one first time; second time OK."

I'm working on moving all of my scripts from userscripts.org to Gitorious. Better history/forking/etc, all of my code in one easy-to-retrieve repository, and the entire site is Free Software. But it's not really made for this kind of thing, so it's taking some setting up.

Dumsnill: "But seriously, why does the Scroll Tag work on the blue and green but not here?"

Works okay for me (Firefox 4, both Windows and Linux). Do you have the most recent version (which I updated just a month ago)? What sort of "not working" is happening? Is the tag completely missing? Or does it not follow you? Or something more subtle?
posted by Plutor at 10:56 AM on April 17, 2011

When I'm on the blue I see the "11 comments, 4 new" type thing, and if I click the 4 I get back to where I left the thread. Here I see "55 comments, 55 new", even though I've read all 55 comments. Once I've opened the thread, though, everything's fine.
posted by Dumsnill at 12:02 PM on April 17, 2011

Actually, I don't know if that has anything to do with that script:)
posted by Dumsnill at 12:03 PM on April 17, 2011

Aha, you're absolutely right. I've fixed that bug, and here's a preview of the new hosting location for them. (Or you can get it from userscripts.org, too.)
posted by Plutor at 12:35 PM on April 17, 2011 [1 favorite]

Thank you so much, Plutor!
posted by meese at 12:56 PM on April 17, 2011

Thanks cj_ and Plutor.
posted by vidur at 5:54 PM on April 17, 2011

All better now. Thanks, Plutor.
posted by briank at 6:34 PM on April 17, 2011

Sorry about the deleted thread blog, I had some personal stuff to deal with and fell behind. I'll be updating it soon.
posted by dead cousin ted at 10:00 PM on April 17, 2011 [5 favorites]

Thank you, Plutor!
posted by taz at 12:47 AM on April 18, 2011

Thanks!
posted by iamkimiam at 2:16 AM on April 18, 2011

So userscripts is just randomly giving me 404's, and gitorious seems to be running off a dialup modem. Isn't web hosting supposed to be easy nowadays?
posted by smackfu at 6:33 AM on April 18, 2011

Yes, I just went to try it for my work computer (gotta have this for all computers, of course!) and got the 404.
posted by Melismata at 7:10 AM on April 18, 2011

gitorious ended up working for me, although you kind of have to know your way around to find stuff. Deleted posts is here and then you need to select the "raw blob data" link in the top right and it should open it in Greasemonky.
posted by smackfu at 7:14 AM on April 18, 2011

Actually, the reason I called Gitorious a "preview" is that I'm building wiki pages for each thing so you don't have to know your way around. Here's the page for deleted posts, and here are all of my MeFi scripts, although only about half of the pages linked there actually exist at this point.
posted by Plutor at 8:07 AM on April 18, 2011

Thank you, smackfu!
posted by Melismata at 8:09 AM on April 18, 2011

Is anybody using the MetaFilter User Notes script? That doesn't seem to be working either.
posted by MustardTent at 12:16 PM on April 18, 2011