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MeFi Navigator

Navigate users' comments in Metafilter threads. Highlights comments by the you, the poster, and admins (in Metatalk).

New Version! (19 March 2007)
This is a new improved version. Performance has improved hugely (pretty much instantaneous on normal threads, and a couple of seconds on the very longest threads). New features include highlighting of your comments, a less obtrusive layout, an improved list view, highlighting of cortex and pb's comments in Metatalk. Check the screenshot for details.
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See a new screenshot. Archived discussion: MetaTalk thread.
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Mefi Navigator does a few things that make quickly navigating Metafilter threads a bit easier:

- Comment navigation. The « and » arrows allow you to quickly move through a user's comments, while the list icon ≡ shows you a clickable list of all his/her comments in the thread. At the top of the list, the ·< and >· links allow you to skip to a user's first and last comments respectively.

- Admin highlighting. Matt, Jessamyn and Cortex's comments are highlighted with a small tag after their username, in Metatalk only.

- Original poster highlighting. Especially useful in AskMe threads, to quickly find questioners' responses.

- Highlights your responses, automatically. To find your username, the script reads the Metafilter 'user_name' cookie. (This happens locally; there are no security or privacy risks here)
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Works on Metafilter, AskMe, MetaTalk, and all other subsites. Works with both the default theme and the plain one. Works with any version of Firefox above 1.0.7. Works on recent versions of Opera.

If you have any problems with the script, please email matthewr dot mefi at googlemail dot com.




May 2, 2008
matthewr Script's author

Minor update (02 May 2008)
Performance improvements: better XPath, string concatenation and DOM manipulation. About 2x faster on long threads.

Minor update (17 March 2008)
Two bugs fixed: (1) navigation elements raised height of 'posted by' line, so links to a comment anchor were not quite at the right position; (2) flickering effect when hovering on border between two links in comments list.
 
Mar 27, 2008
mullingitover User

I want to have this script's babies. I can never go back to the old way of surfing metafilter. Mathowie should literally shower you in gold and jewels for the awesomeness you have accomplished.

I give this script 100 factorial stars.

Dash_slot, keep kicking ass.
 
Nov 19, 2006
johnny.dee User

I wanted to rate this as 5***** - but the ratings system is down.

However, I created an account to do that, and instead, thwarted, am saying it in longhand.

'This script changed my life!'

I cannot believe that no-one else has commented.

Thanks, dash-slot_

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