Forum Extensions - make BLF adequate

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McZealot:
rather than a bunch of extensions you should make the BLFES (Blockland Forums Enhancement Suite) with them all combined

rambo1220:

--- Quote from: McZealot on June 15, 2016, 12:52:17 AM ---rather than a bunch of extensions you should make the BLFES (Blockland Forums Enhancement Suite) with them all combined

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this

Farad:

--- Quote from: Foxscotch on June 14, 2016, 11:09:53 PM ---pls no extensions. just make them userscripts plz. plsss. then you don't have to package different versions for different browsers and someone doesn't have to install an entire extension for some simple functionalitythat already exists.

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I went with extensions over userscripts for a few reasons:
- more user-friendly
- requires 1 download vs 2 (tampermonkey extension + userscript)
- extensions are safer in general (extensions are checked for malware before being added to browser stores)
- all reasons why user acceptance is probably higher for extensions than userscripts

Foxscotch:
you should use userscripts for the reasons I said plus:
- I can easily turn each one off and on without leaving the page I'm on
- I can modify it easily to suit myself better
- tampermonkey provides a whole lot of very nice settings, and allows YOU to write scripts with ES6 or CoffeeScript even if the browser alone doesn't support what you're doing

I'm unsure if any of the other extensions do the same things in the last bullet
which one is "more user-friendly" is very subjective. both adding and removing userscripts is more convenient than adding or removing extensions, at least in chrome
I mentioned before that you wouldn't have to package different versions for different browsers, but the real advantage there is that users don't have to wait for you to do so to use your script in a browser that you didn't prioritize. tampermonkey alone supports chrome, firefox, opera, and safari. other browsers that you might not have even heard of probably have their own userscript extensions

your second bullet is kinda meaningless, because most users who are interested in this kind of thing probably already have a userscript extension installed, since literally nobody but you has made actual extensions for the blockland forum

and safety, too, is meaningless. I doubt they will check for the kinds of things that matter. sending the user's session ID or some of their PMs to your own server could easily be disguised as legitimate collection of statistics to the people who check extensions, and have no specific experience with the blockland forum
in fact, tampermonkey has safety settings that would let you prevent any userscript from operating on login pages and things like that, which isn't a choice I get with chrome extensions

Farad:

--- Quote from: Foxscotch on June 16, 2016, 01:00:15 AM ---you should use userscripts for the reasons I said plus:

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alright, I'll add a userscript download option. it will be in addition to the extension download options.

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