Hey all, I made a Firefox extension (signed by Mozilla) specifically to add Show/Hide Child Comments functionality similar to how RES had it (where the parent comment is still visible).
It’s not very useful, but I could use some feedback on tightening up the Javascript. I’m not a JS beginner, but I know I can do better, so any tips are welcome!
EDIT: Also, if anyone has any suggestions for the extension, I’m open to those as well.
I really miss the RES feature of keyboard navigation (mainly j, k, to move between posts.) Thanks for making this!
Should be pretty simple to add something like that as well. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hey, just a heads up - I updated the extension to add some rudimentary keyboard navigation. Your j and k are there, and also you can use m to toggle the child comments for the selected comment.
If you wanna tighten up your extension build process feel free to steal my build setup :) (https://github.com/Baizey/UniversalAutomaticCurrencyConverter )
It’s using esbuild and I’m using it to bundle for both chrome and Firefox separately (they expect slightly different manifest files), has multi entry points support (background, content, options and popup) and builds for ts/js
Your repo made me want to convert the extension to TS, which I’ve never written in before.
So I did that, and I’m getting to learn a new syntax! Thanks :D
I’m going to give this a try. Thanks for working on it!
I tend to think that extensions for websites should be treated as feature requests by the website. Reddit for example should have just incorporated RES features.
One I liked was tags for users to I could remember who they are better.
