Reddit fixer
— Last update Oct 11, 2009 — Installed 179 times.|
Script Summary:
Clean up Reddit pages to be more like old Reddit (mouseover Reddit logo to see a count of deleted elements) |
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Reddit fixer cleans a lot of the distractions off of Reddit. Hover over the Reddit logo with the mouse to see just how many things it deletes. (It's often well over a hundred space-wasting elements.)
Version 1.1.2 update: Comments links can now be toggled by a new "comments" link at the bottom, next to the added "/reddits/" link. This is in addition to the "show/hide comments" in the Greasemonkey "user script commands" menu.
Full-size screenshots:
With Reddit fixer: http://imgur.com/7MLhf.png
With Reddit fixer, about to show the hidden 'comments' links: http://imgur.com/qTbFz.png
Without: http://imgur.com/Vp5Wv.png
Generally, Reddit fixer makes a page of links fit on a full-screen window without scrolling, which I think is very nice. It sort of makes new Reddit more like old Reddit, as preserved by the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20050809081330/http:.... It's sort of similar, more of the minimalist design it used to have.
Notably, it removes most ways of interacting with reddit, like logging in, voting, and commenting. It makes you think twice before snapping off a comment or downvote, which I think is a nice feature. Also, you cannot see the username responsible for stories or comments (with the exception of comments collapsed due to "comment score below threshold"). I think this is also a feature, because I don't leap to conclusions about the article based on who submitted it. In any case, Greasemonkey is disabled with one click, so you can easily get those elements back momentarily to do your voting and commenting.
The rewritten version counts the number of elements deleted and puts them as the title-text of the Reddit logo in the upper left corner, so you can read it by mousing over if you're curious.
This script works with or without Adblock Plus.
It is believed to work with NoScript, but I don't use it, so it's not tested often.
Old version screenshots:
With Reddit fixer: http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/9744/withfq0...
Without: http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/8904/without...
