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

[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.