Signal Boost: Signal Boost bookmarklet with user name tags for more sites

[melannen]

ljwrites posted: Signal Boost bookmarklet with user name tags for more sites

I made a fork/update to melannen's fork of astolat's signal boost bookmarklet, which adds user name tags for more of the sites recognized by the DW user tag. I also made small changes to the text generated by the bookmarklet.

So astolat updated the bookmark code again a few days ago, and then I updated it more, and then ljwrites updated it even more!

So now it
a) preserves html in the copied text (astolat);
b) works for some people it had been broken for before (me);
c)strips out multiple signal boost: prefixes in titles (me, sorry);
d) fails better with non-DW websites (me);
e) actually works well with a list of non-DW websites that are compatible with DW (lj-writes)
f) has slightly more best-practices formatting (lj-writes).

....at some point we're going to have to stop calling it a "tiny" bookmarklet. :D

I also updated the drag-and-droppable version I'm hosting on my website, if you're somewhere that making a new bookmark manually is too annoying, go here and use the link:

SignalBoost 1.4

(If I keep wanting to code things, I need to update my DW style next! Nobody let me do anything else! Even if CSS is the worst!)

Comments

[rosefox]

I copied the code from github and used it as the URL of the bookmark, and that... doesn't seem to work at all? I get "var%20posturl%20%3D%20%22https’s server IP address could not be found." Am I missing something about how to make this go?

EDIT: Dragging and dropping the drag-and-drop version doesn't work for me (Chrome, Mac)—nothing happens—but copying the URL from that link and making it the URL for the bookmark worked.

[melannen]

The github code is human-readable, to make it readable in a bookmark you have to go through and escape all the punctuation and take out the comments and so on. There's some webpages that will do this because doing it manually is soul-killing - ljwrites linked to one in their documentation.

But you can just use the pre-converted code in the text box.

The drag-and-drop thing sometimes is persnickety - you have to drag it to your bookmarks bar, but in my Vivaldi browser about half the time it decides you're clicking or highlighting instead of dragging if you don't do it exactly right. ETA: And I have no idea how that works on Mac.

[kore]

Wow, very nice!

Now all I want is to have it open in another tab and maybe be able to do multiple links, but it sure is pretty right now.

[melannen]

I think the multiple links thing isn't doable - javascript doesn't really have a long-term memory, and afaik a bookmarklet can only affect a) the page it's called from and b) any pages it opens. You can do it with browser extensions, though, I think? I know the metafandom people had one for link-compiling at some point, and at one point Opera even had a built-in "scratchpad" sort of thing that was good for that. But I don't do browser extensions. :P

I don't know if the open-in-new-tab is doable or not! I have just remembered that was also on my list of things to try, but the first time I tried it wasn't as easy as I was hoping and then I moved on. Maybe I will look at that a little closer.

(I feel like at some point we will have to have actual multiple versions running at once, since not everybody would want a new tab, and I was also thinking maybe a version with more condensed formatting for people who do really long linkspams....)(But! I am not supposed to be messing with it anymore! Other things!)

[stellar_dust]

I tried to make it open in a new window by stealing code from the AO3 offsite bookmarklet. I think it should be doable, but it'll take more time and brain than I've been able to devote to it yet, especially as people keep making the existing code more complex ...

[dragoness_e]

What is this thing for? I don't understand what it does, or why I might want it.

[melannen]

It automates the process of making DW posts that link to other posts - I made this post by just highlighting some text in ljwrites's post, and then clicking the bookmarklet in my bookmarks toolbar, and it opened the dw posting window and filled everything in for me, all I had to do was click post. (I added some stuff in my own words to it because I'm incapable of *not* adding stuff to it, and it doesn't tag for you, but I could have just posted as-is and it would have made a perfectly good link post.)

If you don't do a lot of posting links to other stuff, or you already have a set format for doing it, it probably isn't something you'd want. But if you do, (or if you're used to being on a site that has a reblog/retweet function, but want to do something similar in a DW-acceptable way) this makes it a lot faster.

I only make link posts once in a long while and I didn't think I'd ever use it, but I actually have already, for a few of those once-in-a-long-while posts.

[dragoness_e]

Thanks for the explanation. I'll have to try it out.

[shy_magpie]

boosting!

[witchka]

Oooh sweet it doesn't wipe out the first two letters of off-site titles anymore.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Cool! Thanks!