Discussion on LJ Thread Unfolder with "Unfold all" | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by Claudia

Claudia — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:15:01 +0000

Tim Babych's original (linked above) works with current LJ changes. I do miss "unfold all", though....

Archived Comments, replied by Heidi

Heidi — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:00:08 +0000

I suspect this was broken on purpose by LJ in order to force people to pay them to use the expand feature (or upgrade to a plus account and pay them by eyeballing the ads).

I would *love* to see this fixed, and I would also love for this to disable LJ's ajax "Expand" bullshit. The expand takes too long to load. I like the Greasemonkey script *much* better. It loads *faster*

Course, the other reason "Expand" probably takes forever to load could be to force us to look at more ads...but since I have adblocker, I have no idea if that's true or not.

Archived Comments, replied by anotokino88

anotokino88 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:18:35 +0000

This has been working (with a few exceptions) until now, but now it suddenly doesn't work at all. Like Tephra mentioned below now the comment just dissapears when you click on the unfold option. I'm also on LJ, and using Firefox 2. I hope it works out , I've been relying on this script for so long :)

Archived Comments, replied by Tephra

Tephra — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:00:31 +0000

This doesn't seem to work since LJ added the thread expanding feature to paid accounts. When you try to unfold a comment thread now the comment you try it on disappears instead.

It still works fine on InsaneJournal and JournalFen so it has to be a result of LJ's changes. Well, except for trying to unfold the last comment thread on JF pages, sometimes that just makes the thread disappear as well.

Archived Comments, replied by Heidi

Heidi — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:53:41 +0000

I'd like to have this work on InsaneJournal, as well, please and thank you.

Archived Comments, replied by cuponoodles

cuponoodles — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:19:02 +0000

Like some other people have mentioned, I'd like to be able to unfold threads from a parent comment and would also like to be able to unfold long threads as many times as necessary instead of having the Unfold link disappear after it's used. As far as I remember, both were features of the original version.

Archived Comments, replied by tavella

tavella — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:13:22 +0000

I like the unfold all option, but you took away the unfold option for first level comments. And that's the thing I used most on Babych's version -- unfolding all the comments under a single first level comment, rather than unfolding everything on the page.

Archived Comments, replied by Eliah

Eliah — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:31:57 +0000

This is awesome. I've been looking for this for a while. Is there any way to make it automatically unfold all, without me having to click the link?

Archived Comments, replied by Claudia

Claudia — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:47:04 +0000

Thank you for this script, Henrik. I use it all the time.

Some subthreads with *lots* of comments, it seems to bottom out and stop unfolding. I don't know whether this flaw also exists in Tim Babych's original script--I've never used it.

http://community.livejournal.com/thedressingroo... is one example, in particular the
http://community.livejournal.com/thedressingroo...
subthread.

Archived Comments, replied by Henrik N

Henrik N — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:21:46 +0000

Updated: Made it work on the cesperanza link in the previous comment.

Archived Comments, replied by whitearrow

whitearrow — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:58:28 +0000

This is just bloody weird.

When I posted a couple of days ago, "unfold" wasn't even showing up on this thread:
http://cesperanza.livejournal.com/158348.html -- it's still not, even though I reloaded the page, etc.

Today it's working again on this thread:
http://cereta.livejournal.com/348144.html

Both in the generic, blue and white style commment page.

So a few days ago, it wasn't working at all, now it's working in some pages and not showing up in others.

(This is with Firefox btw -- in Opera, the "unfold" shows up on both pages but just hangs on "loading" and doesn't work.)

Archived Comments, replied by Henrik N

Henrik N — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:01:26 +0000

People with breakage: could you post links where you expect this script to work but it doesn't?

I'm not making any promises, but if I (or Tim, or someone else) finds time to work on the script, we'd need that.

Archived Comments, replied by whitearrow

whitearrow — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:28:16 +0000

I'm using it on the generic comments page, and it's stopped working in both Firefox and Opera. In Firefox, Greasemonkey is enabled and other scripts are still working.

Archived Comments, replied by WCityMike

WCityMike — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:48:09 +0000

I'm not actually using it in any special theme.

Archived Comments, replied by Henrik N

Henrik N — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:14:11 +0000

Still works for me (=my girlfriend) – see e.g. http://johannakatt.livejournal.com/260246.html.

I'm afraid I most likely won't be able to spend time trying to make this work in a wider range of styles/themes. So as long as the script works with the page linked from this comment, I'll likely not fix other breakage.

Archived Comments, replied by WCityMike

WCityMike — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:54:57 +0000

Now nonfunctional for me as well. Holly's fix doesn't work for me either.

Archived Comments, replied by Holly

Holly — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:48:29 +0000

Ok I disabled custom comment pages and now it works again...maybe that will work for you Olivia.

Archived Comments, replied by Holly

Holly — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:43:36 +0000

I had both scripts installed and it was working fine, and now mine is doing the same as olivias. I've tried reinstalling to no avail. I haven't changed my LJ style, I did change the colors and a few minor things but it was working after that, just tonight it stopped when I changed them over the weekend.

Archived Comments, replied by Henrik N

Henrik N — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00:05 +0000

whitearrow: Still works fine for me. Did you change your LiveJournal style or something?

Archived Comments, replied by whitearrow

whitearrow — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:42:43 +0000

This script suddenly stopped working for me -- and I rely on it a lot! I tried uninstalling, reinstalling, it still shows up in the Greasemonkey console. Any ideas?

Archived Comments, replied by Henrik N

Henrik N — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:33:37 +0000

Olivia: I just tried, and it still works fine for me. Could you give the URL of a page where it doesn't?

See comments below about different LJ styles, though.

Archived Comments, replied by Olivia

Olivia — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:43:29 +0000

Both thread unfolder scripts malfunction after a while. Why is this? I'll click "unfold" and it starts loading but then replicates the "unfold" and never loads. The script used to work and now doesn't.

example:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f209/purplete...

I would love for this to work.

Archived Comments, replied by Henrik N

Henrik N — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:21:06 +0000

falldown: Thanks, updated the script per your comment.

Bruce N. Stein: Most likely because you're not using the same LJ style that this script (or more accurately, Tim's predecessor script) was made for.

Alas, LJ styles change the HTML (as opposed to just CSS) of pages, so writing scripts that work across styles can be pretty hard. Glad to fix the code if anyone is willing to write a patch, though.

Archived Comments, replied by Bruce N. Stein

Bruce N. Stein — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:24:45 +0000

Does not work here: http://benchilada.livejournal.com/344133.html

as far as I can tell. I've tried viewing it in my own journal style to no avail. Thanks for this, this is what I've been wanting for ages as well, and I have no idea why LJ doesn't implement it themselves.

Archived Comments, replied by falldown

falldown — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:32:40 +0000

Hey, men, just replace
[.='Post a new comment']
to
[contains(@href, '?mode=reply')]
and all seems to be ok...now it's no matter what language u'r use..

*sry for my english ))