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I made a browser extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar by Raicuparta in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like it's not working for you. The extension is supposed to work without setting a preferred server. The instance list is supposed to be pre populated. Something must have happened that prevented it from getting the list. Also, when you click save, it's supposed to show a popup from the browser asking for extra permissions, and then in the Lemmy Go window there's supposed to be a text at the bottom saying "validating instance..." and then "success!", or some error. Is the rest of the extension working for you without setting the instance? It's weird because the instance list comes from the same place as the community list used for the suggestions, so I'm wondering why one would fail but not the other.

I'm working on an update that will show better logs for errors like these.

I made a browser extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar by Raicuparta in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had never used Waterfox, but I installed it just now, to see why it doesn't work. Latest Waterfox is apparently based on Firefox 102, which doesn't support Manifest v3 extensions (and Lemmy Go is one of those). I tried to see if supporting v3 and v2 was feasible, but it's just too many changes even for a relatively small extension like this one. The changes themselves aren't too big a deal, but it would mean maintaining and testing two very different versions of the extension (which I already have to do for Firefox vs Chrome, but right now they are almost identical). I'd rather keep the project as simple as possible for now.

I expect Waterfox G6 (which is supposed to release in September) to support Manifest v3 extensions, so maybe we just need to wait a bit.

I made a browser extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar by Raicuparta in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Agh, thanks for the heads up. No idea how I managed to break that. It will be fixed in a few minutes once it redeploys.

I made a browser extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar by Raicuparta in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I've actually thought about it, but it sounds like too big of a project. I don't think I'd have the time to maintain it for free. Besides, Lemmy being open source means we should probably focus on directly improving Lemmy vs doing it via addons (I made a tiny fix a few days ago, I can see myself contributing in a more soon).

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I made a browser extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Raicuparta@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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tl;dr: With Lemmy Go you type lg beekeeping on the address bar and it takes you to the most popular beekeeping community, or you can pick one from the given suggestions.

Get Lemmy Go for Firefox

Get Lemmy Go for Chrome

More information about Lemmy Go on GitHub

Why

On Reddit, I had a simple search keyword for navigating directly to subreddits, where I could just type r firefox and be taken to reddit.com/r/firefox.

I wanted to have the same behavior for Lemmy, but the Fediverse makes this a lot more complicated.

So I made Lemmy Go to try and make it as simple as possible to jump to a community, or even find new ones more easily.

It's still a work in progress, so it might be a bit unstable and missing a bunch of features. But I've been using it myself for a few days, and it's already pretty helpful.

Usage

Type lg followed by a space (some browsers also accept tab instead), and then type the name of the community you're looking for.

Example: lg linux

Lemmy Go will search its database for any community that has the text linux in its name (e.g. linux_gaming) or title (Linux Gaming).

If you just type a community name and press enter, Lemmy Go will take you to the most popular community from that list.

If you don't press enter right away, you will be shown a list of communities that match that query. You can then select the specific one you want.

Preferred Instance

If you set your preferred instance in the user settings (click the extension icon), Lemmy Go will try its best to navigate to that community in your preferred instance, although this isn't always possible (in which case Lemmy Go will just navigate to the remote instance instead).

For instance, if your preferred instance is set to lemmy.ml and you select firefox@lemmy.world, Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.ml/c/firefox@lemmy.world.

But if lemmy.ml blocks the lemmy.world instance, then Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.world/c/firefox instead.

Read the readme on GitHub for more information about how Lemmy Go works

I made a Firefox extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar by Raicuparta in c/firefox@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's 50 communities per page. It gets every community from every instance linked by one of the instances in the list. So just linking some instance to lemmy.ml or lemmy.world will eventually make it show up in this database.

I made a Firefox extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar by Raicuparta in c/firefox@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ah no worries. That's the kind of thing you can fix by just adjusting CSS. Learning a bit of CSS is really useful for that reason.

I had a quick look, and one easy way to do what you want is using an extension like Stylus, and then creating a new style with this CSS:

@-moz-document domain("lemmy.world") {
    #sidebarContainer {
        display: flex;
        flex-direction: column-reverse;
    }
}

Just keep in mind that there's a good chance this will stop working if the Lemmy frontend updates.

I made a Firefox extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar by Raicuparta in c/firefox@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Could you expand on that? What do you mean by communities on the main page? I want to provide different ways to sort the communities.

Also, feel free to open issues on GitHub with suggestions and bug reports.

I made a Firefox extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar by Raicuparta in c/firefox@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This is where the data comes from: https://github.com/Raicuparta/lemmy-community-crawler There's currently no way to add missing communities manually, but I'll add it to the todo list. But of course if you link any instance to one of the instances that this database crawls, eventually it will show up in the list.

I made a Firefox extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar by Raicuparta in c/firefox@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

woops, lemme fix that

I'm making a browser addon for quickly navigating to Lemmy communities. (Update: It's out!) by Raicuparta in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I released it for Firefox now: https://lemmy.ml/post/1974940

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I made a Firefox extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar (addons.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Raicuparta@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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tl;dr: With Lemmy Go you type lg beekeeping on the address bar and it takes you to the most popular beekeeping community, or you can pick one from the given suggestions.

Get Lemmy Go for Firefox

Get Lemmy Go for Chrome

More information about Lemmy Go on GitHub

Why

On Reddit, I had a simple search keyword for navigating directly to subreddits, where I could just type r firefox and be taken to reddit.com/r/firefox.

I wanted to have the same behavior for Lemmy, but the Fediverse makes this a lot more complicated.

So I made Lemmy Go to try and make it as simple as possible to jump to a community, or even find new ones more easily.

It's still a work in progress, so it might be a bit unstable and missing a bunch of features. But I've been using it myself for a few days, and it's already pretty helpful.

Usage

Type lg followed by a space (some browsers also accept tab instead), and then type the name of the community you're looking for.

Example: lg linux

Lemmy Go will search its database for any community that has the text linux in its name (e.g. linux_gaming) or title (Linux Gaming).

If you just type a community name and press enter, Lemmy Go will take you to the most popular community from that list.

If you don't press enter right away, you will be shown a list of communities that match that query. You can then select the specific one you want.

Preferred Instance

If you set your preferred instance in the user settings (click the extension icon), Lemmy Go will try its best to navigate to that community in your preferred instance, although this isn't always possible (in which case Lemmy Go will just navigate to the remote instance instead).

For instance, if your preferred instance is set to lemmy.ml and you select firefox@lemmy.world, Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.ml/c/firefox@lemmy.world.

But if lemmy.ml blocks the lemmy.world instance, then Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.world/c/firefox instead.

Read the readme on GitHub for more information about how Lemmy Go works

I'm making a browser addon for quickly navigating to Lemmy communities. (Update: It's out!) by Raicuparta in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Should work on any firefoxlike and chromelike browser

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I'm making a browser addon for quickly navigating to Lemmy communities. (Update: It's out!) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Raicuparta@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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EDIT: Lemmy Go is now available for Chrome and Firefox

I had a shortcut for subreddits, where I would just type r beekeeping in the address bar and it would take me to /r/beekeeping right away. For Lemmy, this isn't very convenient, since you gotta specify the instance for any communities outside your own instance.

I'm trying to make a browser extension to bring back that kind of quick navigation. In this case if you type lc beekeeping in your address bar and press enter, it will navigate to the most popular community it finds in any instance, and it will show that community in your local instance.

If you don't press enter right away, it will show multiple communities that match your query, so this can also be a quicker way to find new communities without knowing the exact name.

I'm checking if people would be interested just to see if it's worth the trouble to polish it up, add user settings, and publish the extension to the stores.

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First public Alpha version of Outer Wilds? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Raicuparta@lemmy.ml to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

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On the Internet Archive you can get a few different alpha versions of the game Outer Wilds, and a demo version too. But there's an older version that I can't seem to find anywhere.

I'm pretty sure it's the one in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0Y_6EhXos

It used to be downloadable in this URL from Alex Beachum's website, but that domain has been parked for while: http: // alexbeachum.com / outerwilds / OuterWilds_IndieCadeBuild.zip. (don't follow this URL, it might not be safe, I added some spaces so people don't follow accidentally). This build was originally shared from Alex Beachum's website: https://web.archive.org/web/20130630070827/http://alexbeachum.com:80/archives/258

This build dates back to December 2012. It was built specifically for IndieCade, where Outer Wilds was picked as a "Digital Select": https://web.archive.org/web/20150315041855/http://www.indiecade.com/2013/digital_selects/

Does anyone happen to have archived this?