Greasemonkey scripts for everyone!

[aldamon]

Thank you! Between these and AB+ the forum is tolerable.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: aldamon
Thank you! Between these and AB+ the forum is tolerable.

Yeah, we just need a sunglasses script

 

[hg403]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Sweet job hg403, nice. I was working on trying to figure those out but my JS is lacking. I am going to update my code to use some of your ideas because it is less processor intensive on the xpath expression. You are also one heck of a lurker, with less than 20 posts. I can't PM you because you don't have them enabled. But damn nice job you did

Thanks, mainly all I did was fool around with greasemonkey tutorial code though and managed to get it working . My pm's should be on, they were working earlier today and I haven't changed anything.

I updated the category over buddy script to fix a bug, also added a couple more scripts

Alternating row colors for thread list
Reduce wasted space in thread/post windows

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Nice, more scripts

:beer:

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

OMG, this is so much better. Why didn't they make it like this in the first place?!

Thanks hg403 and Evadman. Also Cristatus for waving the flag :thumbsup:

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: hg403

Originally posted by: Evadman
Sweet job hg403, nice. I was working on trying to figure those out but my JS is lacking. I am going to update my code to use some of your ideas because it is less processor intensive on the xpath expression. You are also one heck of a lurker, with less than 20 posts. I can't PM you because you don't have them enabled. But damn nice job you did

Thanks, mainly all I did was fool around with greasemonkey tutorial code though and managed to get it working . My pm's should be on, they were working earlier today and I haven't changed anything.

I updated the category over buddy script to fix a bug, also added a couple more scripts

Alternating row colors for thread list
Reduce wasted space in thread/post windows

the reduce wasted space didn't install properly for me for some reason. i had to add it manually.

anyway pretty cool. thanks.

 

[Captante]

Anybody manage to get these working in Opera?

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: hg403
Alternating row colors for thread list
Reduce wasted space in thread/post windows

Niiiiiiice!

 

[rise]

thanks!! :beer:

until proper fixes, these make a huge difference. at least i finally got to try greasemonkey...

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
I hope someone can write a shrink script for the icons and wasted space in the threads/posts section of the page.

All of these issues should still be dealt with properly by FuseTalk though.

definitely, all that wasted space is ridiculous.

can a >> last page button be scripted in?

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: mb

Originally posted by: pontifex
so you have to use firefox AND install this greasemonkey thing to get this stuff to work? :thumbsdown:

Is there a problem with that?

yeah, i hate firefox

 

[mb]

I made a script!

Eliminate the truncation...

Prettier Kill Truncation <-- I recommend this one, especially if you use the "Shrink left navigation pane and icons" script
^I re-wrote some of the forum names on the left side so that they would still be one line. I like this one better.

Note: how much the text wraps depends a little on your screen resolution and on if you have the "Shrink left navigation pane and icons" script installed or not too.
Note #2: I have to give some credit to evadman, I based my script off of his Fusetalk Hide Smilies script.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: mb
I made a script!
Prettier Kill Truncation <-- I recommend this one, especially if you use the "Shrink left navigation pane and icons" script
^I re-wrote some of the forum names on the left side so that they would still be one line. I like this one better.

Very nice. I was in the middle of doing the exact same thing and you beat me to it. Awesome!

Cristatus, keep the first post up to date with all the scripts. Now THIS is how a community works! AT users for the win! together we can win over annoyances!!

 

[mb]

Thanks
Just made another one!
My forums link goes to your latest posts

Hmm, this one seems to kill the Reply button under Quick Reply.
Can you help me troubleshoot it Evadman?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: mb
Prettier Kill Truncation <-- I recommend this one, especially if you use the "Shrink left navigation pane and icons" script
^I re-wrote some of the forum names on the left side so that they would still be one line. I like this one better.

You forgot P&N. I fixed it by adding this:

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: mb
Prettier Kill Truncation <-- I recommend this one, especially if you use the "Shrink left navigation pane and icons" script
^I re-wrote some of the forum names on the left side so that they would still be one line. I like this one better.

You forgot P&N. I fixed it by adding this:

Haha, my bad, I have P&N hidden - too many accidental clicks on it instead of OT :Q

Fixed them both now.

 

[Platypus]

I knew someone would do this eventually, thanks for doing what FT should have done originally before releasing this!

 

[nakedfrog]

I beseech thee to produce another that lets me change the background color of posts from white to grey

 

[Kev]

very nice, i like

 

[Platypus]

If only this loaded first instead of loading AT's normal crap first, then taking 5 seconds more to refresh and have these modifications

Also if the other themes worked I'd be much happier, grass green is the only tolerable one.

Haha I like how AT'ers took not even 2 days to fix this alpha release of FT

 

[mb]

If I have the time, I'll dabble with trying to fix the themes with greasemonkey. However, I still can't figure out why my My forums link goes to your latest posts script kills the Quick Reply button.

 

[Platypus]

Thanks MB!!!!

I've only used GM once or twice in the past, I wish there was a way to force it to load them first before rendering AT.. AT is running slow as sh!t compared to how it used to and it's not my connection since every other website loads fine.. it takes like 10 seconds from refresh to the point where the scripts kick in.. minor gripe I guess, nature of the beast.

 

[hg403]

Originally posted by: Captante
Anybody manage to get these working in Opera?

I updated the cosmetic scripts to work in opera, but haven't been able to get the 'categories over buddies' or the alternating thread row colors scripts to work. I'll look into it and see if I can fix it.

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I beseech thee to produce another that lets me change the background color of posts from white to grey

Replaces default theme with grey - I made this yesterday for myself.. should be easy enough to change for different colors/fonts.

Edit: Pic of the color changes

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: Platypus
Thanks MB!!!!

I've only used GM once or twice in the past, I wish there was a way to force it to load them first before rendering AT.. AT is running slow as sh!t compared to how it used to and it's not my connection since every other website loads fine.. it takes like 10 seconds from refresh to the point where the scripts kick in.. minor gripe I guess, nature of the beast.

Hmm, what are your computer specs? They load instantly on my desktop and there is only a minuscule delay on my laptop, but I guess having a Core 2 Duo and 2GB RAM on both might help. That's with 10 extensions and 7 GM scripts installed, too.

Also, don't thank me just yet I just barely know the basics of javascript and css, so fixing the themes won't be easy, if possible for me.

 

[Platypus]

It's more like 'waiting for forums.anandtech.com...' in the browser window than an issue of my computer specs.. it waits for the page to completely load before applying them

Hey, at least you're LOOKING at it, that's way more than I can say for the FT staff.