MGoBlog Chrome Extension
I was bored and created a very simple extension for Google Chrome to address outstanding issues with the new MGoBlog. As the extension page talks about, it addresses two things-
1. It remembers your last comments-per-page selection
2. It prevents the comment replies from being crushed from both sides.
Hope someone finds it helpful. If there are other things you would like to see, let me know and I can look into it as time permits. There is only so much that can be done through an extension, but we'll see!
Here is the extension in the web store
Leave me some feedback!***
***Only looking for positive feedback at this time
February 5th, 2019 at 11:38 PM ^
Now do an app.
February 5th, 2019 at 11:58 PM ^
To the OP, I wouldn’t recommend following through on this request. I did some computer work for Putin a couple of years ago, and the investigations about it are non-stop.
February 6th, 2019 at 12:21 AM ^
.....signed Mark Zuckerberg.
February 6th, 2019 at 12:26 AM ^
Just be thankful you didn't join the Ministry of Sport. It sounded like a great opportunity at the time.
February 6th, 2019 at 6:29 AM ^
February 6th, 2019 at 10:43 AM ^
An app like 2.0 where you just get rows of content, no ads, no whitespace, and very obvious tracking of conversations without all the constant scrolling and page jumping.
I mean, if this version is what you would call mobile-responsive, well, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
February 6th, 2019 at 1:46 PM ^
If there are ads on the site, there would be ads on the app, unless they charge for it, which they keep saying they don't want to do.
February 5th, 2019 at 11:49 PM ^
Can we get this for Safari? I'll pay good money for it! Spoiler alert, I won't really.
February 6th, 2019 at 12:06 AM ^
Probably not too difficult... I will look into it hopefully in the next few days.
February 6th, 2019 at 12:17 AM ^
The MgoBlog experience! You are the friggin man!
February 6th, 2019 at 5:53 AM ^
***ONLY LOOKING FOR POSITIVE FEEDBACK AT THIS TIME
- My girlfriend whenever she asks me a question,
but for real, thank you.
February 6th, 2019 at 8:28 AM ^
I need to tell this to my boss at my next review.
February 6th, 2019 at 6:26 AM ^
February 6th, 2019 at 9:06 AM ^
Mozilla is awful from a support standpoint and not much better from a product standpoint. My apologies.
February 6th, 2019 at 9:19 AM ^
What's the word? THUNDERBIRD!!!
You don't have a very smart IT guy, do you? But is it really his choice to avoid Outlook, or is he taking the heat for leaderships refusal to pay MS' asking price for everything that Outlook needs?
But there is no excuse for denying browsers - they all have the same security features, anymore.
February 6th, 2019 at 9:35 AM ^
Your IT guy only does that so he can keep his job. If he used standard Microsoft or Apple tools, replacing him would be easier.
Probably has the firewall passwords locked up in his home computer (just in case he gets fired). I've seen this movie several times!
February 6th, 2019 at 7:43 AM ^
HUEL is going to be shocked to learn that those things were fixable.
February 6th, 2019 at 12:13 PM ^
Getting those points issues sorted out?
February 6th, 2019 at 1:09 PM ^
Do you have the ability to vote?
February 6th, 2019 at 2:50 PM ^
Snark is always important when representing your company in the public.
/s
#NotShocked
February 6th, 2019 at 6:41 PM ^
I do. But according to the sticky for bugs, not everyone does.
Glad you've got time to snark on the message board though. Makes me feel really sure that soon I'll come here and know which are the new comments, and be able to see all of the comments without having to change a setting over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
February 7th, 2019 at 9:45 AM ^
For the record, we ALWAYS want feedback. There are only so many things that we can detect on the front end and you all are the ones using the website. Our goal is to make sure that the functionality meets your expectations, and we recognize that sometimes things don't happen as quickly as anyone would like. We're on the same team here.
So yeah, amidst the daily work we are doing to try to make permanent fixes and improve the board for everyone, I'll take five minutes to contribute to the conversation with a joke. The update to the board preferences resetting itself is on our list. Along with about a dozen other things.
And no one has raised their hand to communicate that the points bug fix hasn't worked for them. So if you hear anything, please feel free to provide that feedback so that we can continue to make improvements for everyone.
February 6th, 2019 at 8:11 AM ^
Wish there was an app for us iPhone/iPad users.
February 6th, 2019 at 8:26 AM ^
Thanks! If you get the source up on Github, I'd love to contribute to it.
February 6th, 2019 at 8:36 AM ^
I'm always "***ONLY LOOKING FOR POSITIVE FEEDBACK"
Unfortunately, Life is not that kind!
Sorry Bursley - you beat me too it!
February 6th, 2019 at 8:49 AM ^
*** OLFPFATT = Don't be a dick, i'm not getting paid to do this.
Thank you OP, you're efforts are appreciated.
February 6th, 2019 at 8:50 AM ^
One more probably easy thing to fix: When mgoblog calls out to noembed.com to determine if a URL is embeddable, force it to https.
February 6th, 2019 at 10:15 AM ^
This is awesome. I made a very basic script that modifies styles on the site, but it requires TamperMonkey to install. The extension is a good idea, as it'll be a lot more lightweight for most folks. Feel free to check it out and use anything that could maybe be useful: https://github.com/pkfrank/mgocomments
Will start using the extension and will offer some positive feedback as I go.
February 6th, 2019 at 10:35 AM ^
Love it! This is a phenomenal immediate fix. We will still be working internally to amend these issues within the website so that an additional extension isn't required.
February 6th, 2019 at 12:09 PM ^
This is great.
This isn't meant as a criticism at all, but just something I noticed in case you're interested in tweaking.
Without the extension, if you respond in the thread, it takes you to the last page of the thread, even if your comment was supposed to be on page 1.
With the extension, I expanded my thread to have 100 comments, but it still took me to what would be page 2 of a 58-comment thread. So basically it took me to an empty page instead of putting me right back on that 100-comment-limit page.
Again, not a big deal, but just a glitch you might not have known about.
Thanks again!
February 7th, 2019 at 3:22 AM ^
Thank you!