Dreamwidth tip
Mar. 28th, 2010 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arduinnaA couple of weeks ago, paian linked to a nifty little greasemonkey script that has made Dreamwidth so much more usable for me, I can't even tell you. The script is attached to your computer, not your account, so you don't have to be logged in to DW to make it work.
It's here: Dynamic and persistant DW reading/network page expand/collapse/hide.
If you're on Firefox and you have Greasemonkey installed, what this does is add two things to the subject line on each post you see: (-) (x) . That's it. They are WONDERFUL.
If you click the (-), the post you're looking at shrinks down to just the subject line and the comment count/reply links line. (You also then get a (+) in the subject line, for if you want to re-expand it.)
If you click the (x), the post you're looking at vanishes utterly, and the space where it was closes up so you don't see any gaps between posts.
Whatever you click stays clicked no matter what page you're on; if you collapse a post on your Reading page and go to that person's journal, the post is collapsed there, too. It's also collapsed if it shows up on your Network page. Likewise for anything you hide completely; it's gone everywhere. Really freaking handy for NSFW posts that scroll by at work that you don't want accidentally showing up again!
If you hide something and you want to unhide it, you just go to Tools | Greasemonkey | User script commands | Clear hidden entry values, and boom, you've got your hidden entries back. (You can also clear your collapse/expand entry values).
Here, have some screencaps:
(These are all of my DW's front page, not my reading page, but it works the same there, and on the Network page.)
A post with the option to collapse or hide it in the subject line:
One post has been collapsed:
Many posts have been collapsed:
One of the posts (Follow Friday Burn Notice edition) has been hidden, and the space has filled in cleanly:
One of the things I have always disliked about LJ-type journaling is the lack of control over what I see; I want to be able to mark things as read, and delete them if I don't want them, and flag them to go back to later. This doesn't let you flag things, but with this I can finally see at a glance what entries are new, and I can get rid of ones that I just don't want to see.
It makes the Reading and Network pages so much cleaner, and so much easier to keep track of. <3
paian linked to a nifty little greasemonkey script that has made Dreamwidth so much more usable for me, I can't even tell you. The script is attached to your computer, not your account, so you don't have to be logged in to DW to make it work.It's here: Dynamic and persistant DW reading/network page expand/collapse/hide.
If you're on Firefox and you have Greasemonkey installed, what this does is add two things to the subject line on each post you see: (-) (x) . That's it. They are WONDERFUL.
If you click the (-), the post you're looking at shrinks down to just the subject line and the comment count/reply links line. (You also then get a (+) in the subject line, for if you want to re-expand it.)
If you click the (x), the post you're looking at vanishes utterly, and the space where it was closes up so you don't see any gaps between posts.
Whatever you click stays clicked no matter what page you're on; if you collapse a post on your Reading page and go to that person's journal, the post is collapsed there, too. It's also collapsed if it shows up on your Network page. Likewise for anything you hide completely; it's gone everywhere. Really freaking handy for NSFW posts that scroll by at work that you don't want accidentally showing up again!
If you hide something and you want to unhide it, you just go to Tools | Greasemonkey | User script commands | Clear hidden entry values, and boom, you've got your hidden entries back. (You can also clear your collapse/expand entry values).
Here, have some screencaps:
(These are all of my DW's front page, not my reading page, but it works the same there, and on the Network page.)
A post with the option to collapse or hide it in the subject line:
One post has been collapsed:
Many posts have been collapsed:
One of the posts (Follow Friday Burn Notice edition) has been hidden, and the space has filled in cleanly:
One of the things I have always disliked about LJ-type journaling is the lack of control over what I see; I want to be able to mark things as read, and delete them if I don't want them, and flag them to go back to later. This doesn't let you flag things, but with this I can finally see at a glance what entries are new, and I can get rid of ones that I just don't want to see.
It makes the Reading and Network pages so much cleaner, and so much easier to keep track of. <3
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Date: 2010-03-29 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
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