Chrome extension to add a "search" link when browsing logged out Lemmy instances

Tywele, 11 months ago

A Firefox version would be very nice

RedKrieg, 11 months ago

The latest version on GitHub works in developer edition. I'll look in to getting it approved tomorrow.

lixus98, 11 months ago

Hey I have one but for kbin

tchambers, 11 months ago

Can you describe to me how after the plugin is active, it should work for a Firefox user with a Kbin account browsing a Lemmy site? Is there any visual difference after the plugin is working? Or just links now go to your local Kbin server?

lixus98, 11 months ago

It should be a difference, a little kbin icon appears on mentions of lemmy communities like "! communityname@lemmy.ml"
Edit: I didn't expect for people to use it so soon, I will give you more information in a bit when I get to my pc

lixus98, 11 months ago

Edit 2: This is what you should see on "!communityname" type mentions. Is not working on kbin.social due to a bug but I will fix that very soon.

RedKrieg, 11 months ago

I'd love to combine efforts to make these work for as many people as possible in the fediverse.

arkcom, 11 months ago

https://github.com/driccio98/kbin-link
Based on the two open issues, it could be made cross compatible pretty easily.

Edit: seems his is slightly different, more for formatting links within posts.

fcuks, 11 months ago

bada bing bada boom here's one I made earlier :D https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/lemmy-link https://lemmy.world/post/141225

lixus98, 11 months ago

That's amazing!, so cool to see that little project be useful for others

lixus98, 11 months ago

Yes, I will update it in a bit, it improves performance a little

fcuks, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Dude I'm so down for this too, I tweaked the kbin-link to work for lemmy, we should message the person see if he's interested in joining up efforts - even if they are not I certainly am!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/lemmy-link https://lemmy.world/post/141225

What's the best way to message you also? Let's get some dialog going and see if we can suss some cool stuff out

lixus98, 11 months ago

I don't know if you are talking about me! But if so, then yes!

RedKrieg, 11 months ago

I'm reachable here, @matrix.org, @gmail.com, and on libera.chat

lixus98, 11 months ago

with the modifications I made to kbin link it also works for lemmy, I don't mind to combine efforts and have one repo for an extension. Just let me know

theUnlikely, 11 months ago

Thanks for making this. It was working well, but I had to disable it because Firefox was giving me little warnings that it was slowing down pages. It was actually making some other sites freeze, even when I didn't have any lemmy pages open. I would have put this in a github issue, but the issues tab isn't enabled.

a_crappy_pirate, 11 months ago

please explain how to install this to a guy with fat thumbs and no idea what he's doing. do i just copy the folder or something? and if so, where to? thanks in advance. seems like a fantastic tool

RedKrieg, 11 months ago

Until it's approved in the web store, you have to:

1. Download the extension files from github.
2. Open chrome://extensions/
3. Click "Load unpacked"
4. Navigate to the folder that contains "manifest.json"
5. Click "Select"
6. Open the extension options to set your home instance (default is lemmy.world)

RedKrieg, 11 months ago

Oh, you have to enable developer mode on the extensions page to "Load unpacked"

AyyLMAO, 11 months ago

Cool cool. What happens if the remote community isn't found on the home instance due to a lack of initial federation?

bdonvr, 11 months ago

Searching for it on your instance will force it to look it up.

RedKrieg, 11 months ago

Yeah, I initially wanted to take you directly to the community on your instance but currently you get a very basic 404 message like that. I went with the search option since it should show your instance's UI regardless. If a future Lemmy release loads the yet-to-be-federated communities from url correctly, I'll change this extension to do that.

AyyLMAO, 11 months ago

Very nice!

kadu, 11 months ago

Thanks a lot for this! Downloading now.