Script Summary: Turn the headlines and comments of social link-sites (reddit, delicious, digg...) into ambient bar-charts.
Turn the headlines and comments of social link-sites into ambient bar-charts.
It works on Reddit, Delicious, Digg, Hacker News, and Stack Overflow (and Metafilter now!). The idea is to provide subtle non-verbal clues to improve your browsing experience almost subconsciously.
Please visit http://elzr.com/posts/backbars-on-social-link-s... for more details and screenshots
Changelog:
June 12, 2009: Stopped messing Hacker News' comment threading sometimes.
June 12, 2009: Added support for MetaFilter! Made comment author backbars more accurate.
June 29, 2009: Made backbars' height always one line. Added related-tags and user-tags on Delicious. Now supports the hackerne.ws and news.ycombinator.org domains.
January 17, 2009: Added the script to github, http://github.com/elzr/Backbars/, to continue its development there. Everyone's invited to pitch in! Changed to minified jQuery.
