If you update the posts not read script, please delete it through the Greasemonkey extension, select HighLift’s MX5OC forum fix, and check “Also uninstall associated preferences”, and click uninstall. Then select the “Posts not read page” link below to install the updated version.
There are three greasemonkey scripts. They don’t rely on each other so you can install each individually if you wish.
Posts not read page Adds sub forum details to each unread post and a “Mark all as read” to the top of the page. The mark all as read button takes a couple of seconds to clear the current page of posts.update - moved the button to increase screen space. The post location names now link to the sub-forum pages.
updatedUnread posts link on threads Adds an unread posts link to the top right of the ‘breadcrumb bar’ in each thread.
100% width forum fix Sets the forum width to 100%, removing the annoying vertical grey bars.
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Hi,
If you use Firefox 3 with the Greasemonkey addon you might find this useful.
I wrote a small script to ‘fix’ the “Posts Not Read” page. It will adds the forum and sub forums to the text of each unread post link :
It’s a complete hack, but it works for me, if anyone else finds it useful I might clean it up.
Now with “Mark all as read button” and better presentation of post location.
Mark all as read only works on a page by page basis, and takes a couple of seconds, but it works ok. If like me you have 70 of pages of unread posts it’s nice to eventually get back to none.
Same place for download if you have Greasemonkey installed in FIrefox3.
I’ll look at getting a proper solution for this - I presume the script works by effectively opening each page in turn, which will put a lot of unnecessery load on the servers, and use bandwidth, which I’m sure everybody would agree we’d rather avoid.
Works brilliantly for me, as a new FF user I have to say that it has transformed my forum experience. Everybody should change to FF[ ok a bit extreme but you get my drift
Wow, great stuff, that was one of my gripes about the new forum [Y]
Don’t suppose you could do one that stops the page returning to the top every time you go back a page, could you ??
I’m glad some of you like it and it works. Cheers!
Yes, it’s a shotgun approach at the moment. Not only opening each page in turn, but doing it every time. The script needs to cache the forum locations against the post URL, then it will be much more sane bandwidth wise.
I made a fix for myself, and it wasn’t my intention to use bandwidth to blackmail the team into fixing the site, but a server-side solution would be brilliant [H]
I’ll add URL caching to the script in the next few days anyway, it’ll make the forum subsection rewriting quicker which will look better.
I’m planning on a separate script to remove the vertical gray bars and stretch the forum to 100%.
If you are using this script I’d be grateful if you could uninstall and switch to this new version.
The new version only checks once to see which forum a post is in, subsequent views will not hit the OC server. This makes the script much quicker and uses orders of magnitude less bandwidth.
To uninstall the old script:
Right click on the GreaseMonkey icon in the bottom right of FireFox. Select Manage User Scripts. Select MX5OC in the left hand pane (the list of installed scripts). Click Uninstall at the bottom of the window.
Then just click on this download link.
There won’t be any more changes to this script, so this won’t be neccessary again.
