I made a Firefox extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar

giant_smeeg, 10 months ago

Great idea, I wish there was an easy way to bring the communites on the main page up the top.

Raicuparta, 10 months ago

Could you expand on that? What do you mean by communities on the main page? I want to provide different ways to sort the communities.

Also, feel free to open issues on GitHub with suggestions and bug reports.

giant_smeeg, 10 months ago

Sorry my suggestion wasn’t really in relation to your plugin, more something I’d like someone to make another plugin for.

But what I meant was on the desktop site main page. To see your subbed communities you have to scroll down past trending and info about your instance. I wish I could have the list at the top.

Raicuparta, 10 months ago

Ah no worries. That’s the kind of thing you can fix by just adjusting CSS. Learning a bit of CSS is really useful for that reason.

I had a quick look, and one easy way to do what you want is using an extension like Stylus, and then creating a new style with this CSS:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">@-</span><span style="color:#63a35c;">moz-document</span><span style="color:#323232;"> domain("lemmy.</span><span style="color:#795da3;">world</span><span style="color:#323232;">") {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    #sidebarContainer {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        </span><span style="color:#0086b3;">display</span><span style="color:#323232;">: flex;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        </span><span style="color:#0086b3;">flex-direction</span><span style="color:#323232;">: column-reverse;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

Just keep in mind that there’s a good chance this will stop working if the Lemmy frontend updates.

giant_smeeg, 10 months ago

Wicked thanks! is this possible in ublock origin? I try keep my add-ons to a minimum.

wmrch, 10 months ago

That is such a great idea! Thanks for sharing, will give it a try.

lvxferre, 10 months ago

Awesome - simple and it does what it needs to, no fuss.

jjffnn, 10 months ago

Lemmy Go will search its database for any community that has the text firefox in its name (e.g. linux_gaming) or title (Linux Gaming).

Is this an typing error or am i misunderstanding something?
If i write lg firefox why would linux gaming show up?
But cool add-on non the less. I’m looking forward to trying it.

Raicuparta, 10 months ago

woops, lemme fix that

synodic, 10 months ago

*Lemmy fix that.

Cool extension! Thank you

jjffnn, 10 months ago

Awesome.

I couldn’t seem to find any info on the github, so i’ll just ask you here.
How is the database populated? Will it be possible to add missing communities manually?

Raicuparta, 10 months ago

This is where the data comes from: github.com/Raicuparta/lemmy-community-crawlerThere’s currently no way to add missing communities manually, but I’ll add it to the todo list. But of course if you link any instance to one of the instances that this database crawls, eventually it will show up in the list.

jjffnn, 10 months ago

Okay cool. I’ll have a closer look at the code at some point.
I might absolutely be wrong as i know nothing about making extensions. But from my short glimpse at it, it looks like it just crawls ~300 named instances from a list and adds up to 50 communities from each to the database. And that it does so as often as you’ve set it to run.
If i’m right (and i’m probably not), wouldn’t that drastically limit the capabilities of the extension?
Or are those named instances basically carying all of the fediverse?
I know you might be the wrong person to ask as you just adapted the crawler, i’m just curious and like poking my nose in to places it doesn’t belong. 😁

Raicuparta, 10 months ago

It’s 50 communities per page. It gets every community from every instance linked by one of the instances in the list. So just linking some instance to lemmy.ml or lemmy.world will eventually make it show up in this database.

jjffnn, 10 months ago

That makes so much more sense. Thanks for explaining!

sudo, 10 months ago

Using the lc keyword to find Firefox communities on Lemmy

Your screenshot and the alt text mention ‘lc’ not ‘lg’ as well. Neat add-on but some time spent actually reviewing what you’re publishing would well spent.