Meta: Browser script that makes Board comments more compact
I put together a little browser script that makes board comments more compact and easier to follow along. Comparison picture (click here for full-size):
It's free / open-source. If you'd like to try it for yourself, you'll just need to:
Step 1) Install TamperMonkey (open-source user-script manager)
Step 2) Install the script
Step 3) Enable it on MGoBoard and hit refresh. You can toggle on/off any time
So, how does it work? It's basically a little piece of code that activates only when you're at MGoBlog.com/MGoBoard. It tells your web browser to change the styles of certain page elements after they've loaded: for example-- remove the sidebar areas, make the posts wider, hide the author profile picture and signature, make the indents more prominent, etc.
August 25th, 2016 at 9:01 AM ^
do you have a browser script that brings the Blog into the 21st century?
August 25th, 2016 at 9:34 AM ^
Its a vintage theme. People in Portland are trying to pay thousands of dollars for this theme right now.
August 25th, 2016 at 9:36 AM ^
Wait for some of the older fans to die off.
August 25th, 2016 at 9:02 AM ^
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August 25th, 2016 at 9:06 AM ^
I really don't know what to say. I'm still hoping that next week Brian unveils plenty of site operability changes. There are plenty of things that would make mgoblog easier to use. But I will continue to come here regardless. Thanks for your efforts. Maybe the site administration can create a site toggle switch to turn this feature on and off.
August 25th, 2016 at 9:07 AM ^
August 25th, 2016 at 9:08 AM ^
But why did I need to provide my address, social security, bank routing and credit card numbers for identification to enable the script?
Seems a bit much to me.
August 25th, 2016 at 9:32 AM ^
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August 25th, 2016 at 9:37 AM ^
You should never give that information out.
If you just give me your D.O.B. and full name, I can remove that script from your computer.
August 25th, 2016 at 11:01 AM ^
I believe this is only true if you are a Nigerian prince who has an apparent issue with the rules and standards of international banking or who has failed to set up an account with a bank here. Now, if we're talking about a Russian dating site, then there is no need to provide the ABA routing information - chances are it has been provided to them by a third-party hacker.
August 25th, 2016 at 9:09 AM ^
August 25th, 2016 at 9:11 AM ^
I would totally do this, but I don't think I could live without the avatars to identify posters.
August 25th, 2016 at 9:55 AM ^
Actually just pushed a change so that now the avatars will show up.
August 25th, 2016 at 2:34 PM ^
With you on this - I identify with many posters by their avatars moreso than their names.
August 25th, 2016 at 9:14 AM ^
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August 25th, 2016 at 10:36 AM ^
Depending on the model, you can replace your laptop's display for less than $100, it's not too difficult to do yourself. I replaced my son's twice, once he closed it on a pen, the second time he dropped it. His laptop is a 17" widescreen HD and I think the display cost about $50-60 on Amazon. Beats paying $300+ to have a vendor do it.
August 25th, 2016 at 10:43 AM ^
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August 25th, 2016 at 9:37 AM ^
/band-aid
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August 25th, 2016 at 2:44 PM ^
August 25th, 2016 at 10:27 AM ^
Or just bookmark it: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard?page=1.
(Zero indexed, so page 1 is the second page. Then change the 1 to 2 for page 3, etc.)
August 25th, 2016 at 1:23 PM ^
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August 25th, 2016 at 9:56 AM ^
Didn't realize that so many people relied on avatars for poster recognition. It was actually a really quick adjustment so I just pushed a change to preserve the avatars in the script.
August 25th, 2016 at 11:13 AM ^
August 25th, 2016 at 9:40 AM ^
It's called Ctrl-minus
It's like MGoBlog, but sleeker.
August 25th, 2016 at 9:56 AM ^
August 25th, 2016 at 10:00 AM ^
Only works on desktop.
I actually really love the MGoBlog HD app, and think it's super functional and sleek. I'd think that optional push notifications wouldn't be too hard to implement, but I'm not the developer so obviously can't really comment.
August 25th, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^
Thank you for this. I have wanted something to make the comments here easier to go through.
August 25th, 2016 at 10:57 AM ^
Wait...so the posters who constantly type up responses that are 4-10 paragraphs in length that I constantly scroll past because I don't have 2 hours to read their posts...will it truncate them?
August 25th, 2016 at 11:10 AM ^
Nope, all of the content remains the same. But using this, the multi-paragraph essays will take up less vertical space, making your "scroll past" a little easier.
August 25th, 2016 at 11:03 AM ^
Thanks, love it!
August 25th, 2016 at 11:50 AM ^
Feature request: make comment threads collapsible (plz)
August 25th, 2016 at 11:57 AM ^
eh.... do you have a script for people who argue something into the ground? It's always super annoying when I have to scroll halfway through a thread just to get past comments that now have two words per line because people just don't know when to quit on the internet.
August 25th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^
That's a nice request...or maybe hide any posts by certain people?
August 25th, 2016 at 12:24 PM ^
Anyone else seen issues posting pictures/GIF's into the blog from Chrome? It's been locking up my Chrome quite often over the past two weeks
August 25th, 2016 at 1:46 PM ^
I can't wait for the implements to be incorporated, then everyone screaming about how the old way was better and they can't figure out this new fangled system. Only half sarcastic because this will definitely happen.
August 25th, 2016 at 3:00 PM ^
August 25th, 2016 at 4:02 PM ^
That's awesome, had no idea Ultra-MGoBoard existed. I'm sure you'll feel me when I say that navigating through all of the divs and patch-jobs in the HTML on the board can be pretty interesting, haha.
Definitely not going to add many more features. Might take a crack at a comment collapse as a stretch feature if I find some inspiration. Still very new at this stuff in the grand scheme.
August 25th, 2016 at 4:15 PM ^
It stopped working for me, but I've always assumed the code stopped working after one of the malware episodes.