OC kbin Federation Awareness script

Rhaedas, 10 months ago

Suggestions for UI enhancements for the next version of this type of thing:

Allow real time modification of the colors (including transparency)

Be able to choose where the colors are (background, border, text, other)

Able to type in or remove domains or maybe even communities and users and set the colors

(Probably too complex but ) have domains be on a selection menu with some indicator of their actual federation status

The latter is because this federation thing is very fluid and what you set this week may not be the best for next. Dare to dream that we could have some federation setting that would automatically determine where each domain is currently and let us know via this kind of thing, vs. having to research or go by word of mouth all the time.

Cyzaine, 11 months ago

Oh this is real helpful! Thank you

minnieo, 11 months ago

this is great! if anyone wants to change the colors to their liking, this is how:
here are my colors shown in step 3:
blue: rgba(163, 120, 138, 0.2)
red: rgba(62, 70, 106, 0.2)!

Otome-chan, 11 months ago

I just took a look at a code and it's kinda hilarious how beehaw is the only one in the strictly moderated list.

CodingAndCoffee, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I wrote one for Lemmy as well https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468763-lemmy-federation-awareness

this one also shows a distinction for kbin users, which I thought would be helpful for Lemmy users because the functionality of how the sites work is just different enough that not realizing someone you're replying to is using a different platform can and has been causing all kinds of confusion.

CodingAndCoffee, 11 months ago

screenshot of comments

randomperson, 11 months ago

That's an awesome feature. Would it be possible to add option so it doesn't color whole comment background but eg. adds color to the username or something?

Rhaedas, 10 months ago

I know this is an old question, but I just got around to playing with things and found if I switched to the borders being the indicator it's a lot "quieter".

I edited lines 40 and 41 to this:

GM_addStyle('[data-is-strictly-moderated="true"] { border-color: rgba(155, 100, 0, 1.0); border-width: 3px; border-style: double;}');

GM_addStyle('[data-is-federated-content="true"] { border-color: rgba(0, 100, 155, 1.0); border-width: 3px; border-style: double; }');

Ori, 10 months ago

I changed the script a little bit more to use a class instead, but I've modified my class style to the original lookup style. Should work.

// And highlight to right of article/comment and changed green to blue.
GM_addStyle('[data-is-strictly-moderated="true"] { box-shadow:1px 0 0 #ff0000, 2px 0 0 #ff0000, 3px 0 0 #c80000, 4px 0 0 #960000, 5px 0 0 #640000; }');
GM_addStyle('[data-is-federated-content="true"] { box-shadow:1px 0 0 #009bff, 2px 0 0 #009bff, 3px 0 0 #0064fa, 4px 0 0 #0032c8, 5px 0 0 #000096; }');

randomperson, 10 months ago

Thanks for the heads-up!

Rhaedas, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

That's nice too. The only thing I'd suggest is having the px as negatives, but that's because I actually didn't think it was working for a bit since I tend to read the left side and totally missed the highlights on the right.
Edit - I just realized that while this point is true on feeds, once you get into the comments putting those colors on the left side would mess up the coloring that shows a tree of comments since that's also on that side. So the fed colors really need to go on the other three sides to be compatible.

A preference setting for this (in the future) could have a huge number of styles to pick from. Some people may even prefer the original simple background color.

Ori, 10 months ago

I don't want to hijack @CodingAndCoffee 's thread, but... look here. And if you choose to use that, check your options menu out. Though, I only allow it on the left side for articles in the options because I don't like overwriting the waterfall on the left (probably one of my extensions if you don't know what I'm talking about).

Rhaedas, 10 months ago

Tried the code out. It's working as far as the fed stuff like the original (that I can tell) but I don't see the additional stuff anywhere that your header insert should be pulling up, if I understand the coding intent. Nothing is new on the sidebar with other script options. Best guess is like other issues I've run into it's a Firefox thing.

Ori, 10 months ago

Weird - I'm using LibreWolf, for all intents and purposes - Firefox. Example

Rhaedas, 10 months ago

Since I saw it in the screenshot, I installed the code highlighter as well, and I also don't see it in the side bar. Maybe something in common? I have the compatibility on for the usability pack, even tried to turn it off and back on.

Rhaedas, 10 months ago

Found an error in the console when I run:

Uncaught TypeError: GM_info.script.header is undefined
createSettings moz-extension://5f0c0ea7-c5f6-4b77-b122-c07f6b739034/ kbin-federation-awareness.user.js#8:446
VMjycqurhgb9 moz-extension://5f0c0ea7-c5f6-4b77-b122-c07f6b739034/ kbin-federation-awareness.user.js#8:556

Just to be clear, originally I tried to install directly from your scripts page, but got thrown an error of invalid script. I couldn't figure out what was the cause, so I tried to just take the installed original code and copied/pasted entirely with your source. Which worked for the main purpose, just didn't show the sidebar stuff.

Ori, 10 months ago

Do you use TamperMonkey, or something else?

Rhaedas, 10 months ago

ViolentMonkey

Since uninstalling the fed script, I now get the same error, but it's pointed to the code-highlighter. Clearly the problem, just don't know why it's not compatible with what I have. I have not tried turning all the scripts off, but I figured you run most of those too so I doubt it's that.

Ori, 10 months ago

Ah! That's why. The specs for gm_info are different for ViolentMonkey and TamperMonkey. That's insane to me, but I've got a fix! Again, really sorry for the hijack CodingAndCoffee.

Updated kbin-code-highlighting
Updated kbin-federation-awareness

Rhaedas, 10 months ago

Nailed it. Perfect.

Now I've got one more issue, since you've got your hands in it. I had asked before in this thread about how when infinite scrolling is on, the CSS doesn't get reloaded so none of the new feeds get accented. It works fine with manual page flipping since the site reloads. And I have no idea how the infinite loading works to figure out where a trigger might be to recall the script.

Ori, 10 months ago

@Rhaedas - That's something I've actually been looking into independently of this script for KCH... I'm sure there's a DOM state called, but I haven't found it yet. Until I figure it out, I've just turned off infinite scrolling - a lot of user scripts don't seem to accommodate it currently.

Ori, 10 months ago

@Rhaedas

Figured out a solution for kbin-federation-awareness, will take longer for KCH. New link here.

Rhaedas, 10 months ago

Working, good job and thanks!