SALR: SA Last Read for Firefox: Better, Faster, Less Useful?

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LODGE NORTH: Jul 30, 2007

How hard would it be for someone to make a new feature that showed the newest posts, from all over the forum, not just one thread?

# ? Aug 2, 2007 04:15

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poopiehead: Oct 6, 2004

Ehjpic posted:

How hard would it be for someone to make a new feature that showed the newest posts, from all over the forum, not just one thread?

Probably not possible without doing webcrawler-like shenanigans which SA frowns upon.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 04:21

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Ehjpic posted:

How hard would it be for someone to make a new feature that showed the newest posts, from all over the forum, not just one thread?

Moderately hard, but we wouldn't do it. We're not allowed to initiate any page requests on our own.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 04:22

LODGE NORTH: Jul 30, 2007

What about something that highlights the forum sections that contain new posts, since the lat time you looked at a thread, within that section.

Sorry if it's hard to understand. :words:

# ? Aug 2, 2007 04:42

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Ehjpic posted:

What about something that highlights the forum sections that contain new posts, since the lat time you looked at a thread, within that section.

Sorry if it's hard to understand.

We can only do stuff to what you see, we can't retrieve data from the site unless the user goes to that page.
I know what you're asking for, but we can't do it.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 04:44

poopiehead: Oct 6, 2004

Ehjpic posted:

What about something that highlights the forum sections that contain new posts, since the lat time you looked at a thread, within that section.

Sorry if it's hard to understand.

If I'm understanding you right, then it's the same problem. SALR can only use info it can grab from the screen while you're browsing and I don't think this info is available anywhere since it's necessarily info about places you haven't been yet.

edit: what duz said.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 04:44

Carnivean: Feb 14, 2004; by Peatpot

kri kri posted:

I must be blind, but I put >> Starred Thread Menu << into my Pinned Forums, but it does not show up. Feel free to bash me if I am being an idiot.

You need to have starred threads to go in it I believe.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 05:00

CygnusTM: Oct 11, 2002

Ehjpic posted:

How hard would it be for someone to make a new feature that showed the newest posts, from all over the forum, not just one thread?

There exist RSS feeds for some forums. See my sig.

SA Forums RSS - GBS - Games - SH/SC - TV IV - SA-Mart - D&D - Ask/Tell - Coupons - Others

# ? Aug 2, 2007 12:23

FistLips: Dec 14, 2004; Must I dream and always see your face?

erebus25 posted:

SALR User stalker feature.

Allows you to temporary track a persons posts.

Isn't something like this already a feature of the forums? If you click the litte question-mark beneath a user's avatar it'll show you that user's post in the current thread. It does however not show other users' posts at the same time like yours does.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 14:01

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Xinopay posted:

Isn't something like this already a feature of the forums? If you click the litte question-mark beneath a user's avatar it'll show you that user's post in the current thread. It does however not show other users' posts at the same time like yours does.

Those two features are nothing like eachother. :confused:

# ? Aug 2, 2007 15:09

m2pt5: May 18, 2005; THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

erebus25 posted:

SALR User stalker feature.

Stabby McDamage's User Colorer Greasemonkey script already does that.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 18:06

erebus25: Jan 20, 2004; by Lowtax

Xinopay posted:

Isn't something like this already a feature of the forums? If you click the litte question-mark beneath a user's avatar it'll show you that user's post in the current thread. It does however not show other users' posts at the same time like yours does.

m2pt5 posted:

Stabby McDamage's User Colorer Greasemonkey script already does that.

And SALR already does this as well, take a look at the "Add Coloring/Note" link under everyones post. As I said before I managed to reinvent a feature SALR already had.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 18:19

m2pt5: May 18, 2005; THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

erebus25 posted:

And SALR already does this as well, take a look at the "Add Coloring/Note" link under everyones post.

SALR just does the name; Stabby's GM script does the entire left column block, which I think is easier to notice when scrolling by a bunch of posts you don't care to read.

Edit: Well, poo poo, I didn't know that.
vvv

m2pt5 fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Aug 2, 2007

# ? Aug 2, 2007 19:01

erebus25: Jan 20, 2004; by Lowtax

m2pt5 posted:

SALR just does the name; Stabby's GM script does the entire left column block, which I think is easier to notice when scrolling by a bunch of posts you don't care to read.

If you change the background colour value in SALR it also highlights the entire post, like the monstrosity I created does.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 19:04

Blinkz0rz: May 27, 2001; MY CONTEMPT FOR MY OWN EMPLOYEES IS ONLY MATCHED BY MY LOVE FOR TOM BRADY'S SWEATY MAGA BALLS

m2pt5 posted:

Stabby McDamage's User Colorer Greasemonkey script already does that.

Last I checked this was broken. Instead of highlighting the single post, it highlights all of them on the page.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 20:11

m2pt5: May 18, 2005; THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

Blinkz0rz posted:

Last I checked this was broken. Instead of highlighting the single post, it highlights all of them on the page.

It's not broken, that's the intent.

quote:

When clicked, the background of that cell is changed to that color in every post that user makes.

What's the point of highlighting a single post anyway? I'd want to highlight all of a person's posts, not just one of them.

Edit: Version 3 is broken. Use version 2.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 23:50

erebus25: Jan 20, 2004; by Lowtax

m2pt5 posted:

What's the point of highlighting a single post anyway? I'd want to highlight all of a person's posts, not just one of them.

Have you tried this feature yet? This is exactly what it does, since you first posted about this I've had all your posts on the forums coloured blue, just by clicking that link the first time.

# ? Aug 2, 2007 23:54

m2pt5: May 18, 2005; THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

erebus25 posted:

Have you tried this feature yet?

I was arguing Blinkz0rz's post in saying it was broken, not arguing that it works that way.

Edit: Changing background color, at least for the OP, doesn't seem to work in SALR. I'm using the latest nightly.

Edit2: Would it be possible to get (at least an option for) an RGB-style color picker? (Something like the default Windows one.) I have a hell of a time messing with that HSB stuff.

m2pt5 fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Aug 3, 2007

# ? Aug 3, 2007 00:31

Demented Footstool: Jan 3, 2007; Do Not Summon The Fire

m2pt5 posted:

Edit2: Would it be possible to get (at least an option for) an RGB-style color picker? (Something like the default Windows one.) I have a hell of a time messing with that HSB stuff.

You can enter in RGB values in the color picker.

# ? Aug 3, 2007 01:16

erebus25: Jan 20, 2004; by Lowtax

m2pt5 posted:

Edit: Changing background color, at least for the OP, doesn't seem to work in SALR. I'm using the latest nightly.

You're right, interesting what a missing ! can do to a bit of code. I've commited a fix for this to the SVN repo.

edit: just checking the post below.

erebus25 fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Aug 3, 2007

# ? Aug 3, 2007 10:32

Toenail Ninja: Sep 10, 2003; Superman is back!
It's great!

I read through the thread and didn't see this issue posted. I opened a thread from my User CP list of bookmarked threads and edited a post using Quick Edit. When I hit submit and went back to my CP, the thread was no longer bookmarked. I was able to reproduce it exactly. I tested it with SALR disabled, and it didn't happen. I only have Parse URLs and Live Preview checked in the Quick Edit window.

# ? Aug 3, 2007 17:17

|||||||: Aug 19, 2004; I'm not Chemmy

Toenail Ninja posted:

I read through the thread and didn't see this issue posted. I opened a thread from my User CP list of bookmarked threads and edited a post using Quick Edit. When I hit submit and went back to my CP, the thread was no longer bookmarked. I was able to reproduce it exactly. I tested it with SALR disabled, and it didn't happen. I only have Parse URLs and Live Preview checked in the Quick Edit window.

Do you have "subscribed" checked?

# ? Aug 3, 2007 17:47

Toenail Ninja: Sep 10, 2003; Superman is back!
It's great!

||||||| posted:

Do you have "subscribed" checked?

No, I didn't. Does SALR remove a bookmark if you don't have that checked every time?

# ? Aug 3, 2007 17:53

erebus25: Jan 20, 2004; by Lowtax

O.k. a little history lesson first.

Original the forums didn't have the bookmark feature, then SALR came along a gave people the new feature of being able to subscribe to threads! Then after a load of awesome work by various admin people on SA users can now bookmark threads, so SALR removed the ability to subscribe to threads because the forums do this via the bookmark feature.

Seems that this option is still left in the quote quote/edit feature and should be removed. The reason the thread gets unbookmarked is the quickquote/edit don't set the bookmark check box.

I'll look into fixing this shortly.

# ? Aug 3, 2007 18:04

TangyRaptor: Apr 10, 2006; Seasoning not included.

How can I clear my starred threads? A lot of them have moved into archives and since I can not access archives, I can not unstar that thread. I tried uninstalling SALR and reinstalling it (I seem to remember unintentionally clearing them before) but that didn't work.

Thanks.

# ? Aug 3, 2007 18:05

CygnusTM: Oct 11, 2002

erebus25 posted:

O.k. a little history lesson first.

Original the forums didn't have the bookmark feature, then SALR came along a gave people the new feature of being able to subscribe to threads!

Thread subscriptions existed long before SALR. It was built into vB.

# ? Aug 3, 2007 18:18

Tabachinova: May 6, 2007; You say...

You say you'd still rather wear the outfit.

Is there some way to close youtube videos or to be able to open then only once?

# ? Aug 3, 2007 18:40

erebus25: Jan 20, 2004; by Lowtax

CygnusTM posted:

Thread subscriptions existed long before SALR. It was built into vB.

Ah seems the teacher got taught. Either way subscriptions seem have been replaced by bookmarks and SALR needs to be brought up to date with this.

# ? Aug 3, 2007 18:56

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

TangyRaptor posted:

How can I clear my starred threads? A lot of them have moved into archives and since I can not access archives, I can not unstar that thread. I tried uninstalling SALR and reinstalling it (I seem to remember unintentionally clearing them before) but that didn't work.

Thanks.

ooo, good question. I don't think there's an interface for that. I'll have to work something out.

Tabachinova posted:

Is there some way to close youtube videos or to be able to open then only once?

That is only partially implemented so that may not be working yet.

erebus25 posted:

Ah seems the teacher got taught. Either way subscriptions seem have been replaced by bookmarks and SALR needs to be brought up to date with this.

Subscriptions == bookmarks
The unsubscribe bug's been around awhile.

# ? Aug 3, 2007 19:15

Jethro: Jun 1, 2000; I was raised on the dairy, Bitch!

The problem with the subscribe bug is that it says (in psuedo code because I don't know how it actually works)

code:

if(salr.CheckSubscribeBox)
    reply.Subscribe = true
else
    reply.Subscribe = false

instead of

code:

if(salr.CheckSubscribeBox||reply.Subscribe)
    reply.Subscribe = true
else
    reply.Subscribe = false

# ? Aug 3, 2007 20:07

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

Is there any way to sync Starred Threads between computers, or do I need to use bookmarking?

# ? Aug 3, 2007 21:00

|||||||: Aug 19, 2004; I'm not Chemmy

kri kri posted:

Is there any way to sync Starred Threads between computers, or do I need to use bookmarking?

I think we gave up on syncing when GENADmin did server side thread tracking.

# ? Aug 3, 2007 21:05

Eunabomber: Dec 30, 2002

duz posted:

We can only do stuff to what you see, we can't retrieve data from the site unless the user goes to that page.
I know what you're asking for, but we can't do it.

Just out of curiosity is it a limitation of the program or GA said: "don't do that"?

Real question, does anyone else's dropdown menu periodically lose the forum list?

# ? Aug 3, 2007 21:14

|||||||: Aug 19, 2004; I'm not Chemmy

Eunabomber posted:

Just out of curiosity is it a limitation of the program or GA said: "don't do that"?

Real question, does anyone else's dropdown menu periodically lose the forum list?

GA said don't do that.

Yeah the folder list is proof of that. Hopefully that status message cuts down on people whining.

# ? Aug 3, 2007 21:23

Eunabomber: Dec 30, 2002

||||||| posted:

GA said don't do that.

Yeah the folder list is proof of that. Hopefully that status message cuts down on people whining.

Aha, I see. Note to other users, sometimes it takes several minutes to refresh the list, so don't get all panicky.

# ? Aug 3, 2007 21:26

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

||||||| posted:

I think we gave up on syncing when GENADmin did server side thread tracking.

So in other words, use bookmarks instead?

# ? Aug 3, 2007 22:55

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

kri kri posted:

So in other words, use bookmarks instead?

That would be preferable, yes.

# ? Aug 4, 2007 00:59

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

erebus25 posted:

And SALR already does this as well, take a look at the "Add Coloring/Note" link under everyones post. As I said before I managed to reinvent a feature SALR already had.

Whenever I go to use the thing, I automatically try to edit the entries by double-clicking on them. If you guys amalgamated the three colour/note windows into a single one with tabs (that could be opened either with a double-click or a right-click ), it would be cool.

# ? Aug 4, 2007 07:09

Bolek: May 1, 2003

The addition of the straight from site pasting of the picture to WaffleImages is a very cool feature. Thanks guys!

# ? Aug 4, 2007 22:01

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madlobster: Aug 12, 2003

madlobster posted:

Is it a known issue that when "Highlight threads I've seen in a different color" in the User Control Panel is on, all viewed threads are highlighted blue, instead of the SALR colors?

Got tired of waiting for this to be fixed. Here's my quick, probably less than optimal fix to salastreadOverlay.js (added before the last line):

code:

		if (thread.className=="thread seen")
		{
			//we haven't been tracking this for whatever reason, add it
			if(!threadDetails)
			{
				persistObject.iAmReadingThis(threadId);
				persistObject.setThreadTitle(threadId, threadTitle);
			}
			thread.className="thread";
		}

		// So right click star/ignore works

madlobster fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Aug 4, 2007

# ? Aug 4, 2007 22:15

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