Ain't It Cool News Talkback Summaries

By Blair Mitchelmore Last update May 29, 2008 — Installed 74 times. Daily Installs: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0
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Puts comment summaries on talkback pages

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Main Features

This script was written when I frequented a particularly long and long-lived Aint It Cool News talkback and I was wondering about the top posters. At first I simply wrote a bit of code and ran it in a firebug console, but later on I wrote a greasemonkey script that did it every page load.

The first version of the script, now almost a year old was pretty crappy. It had the same look and feel, but the way it scanned the page was dirt slow on talkbacks with thousands of posts, which is what it was designed for. Now it scans the page in chunks separated by timeouts that take just as long but at least it doesn't freeze the browser anymore...

The newest versions of the user script introduced a few user configurable options (accessed through about:config) but I haven't really documented them yet so you don't need to worry about them... yet

Any requests for additional stats and features are welcome.

Current Version: 1.0.3

Changelog

Version 1.0.3
Fixed a style bug with really long user names
Version 1.0.2
Fixed a bug I introduced in v1.0.0.
Version 1.0.1
I can't really remember. It most likely related to code formatting though.
Version 1.0.0
First versioned release