Reviews for Reddit Enhancer
Reddit Enhancer by Joelacus
Review by Basjohn
Rated 5 out of 5
by Basjohn, a year agoThe time has finally come.
This extension, this glorious glorious extension, a wet dream of mine and many, is the closest thing to a good Stylish replacement and makes New Reddit feel useable.
I hate dark mode, but I also hate light mode. Both cause differing eye issues, with this? I can finally make mid-mode (Er, we'll think of a more impressive name for it later) where nothing stands out blazingly bright enough to burn your retina (I have permanently dilated pupils). Of course this is a customiser so you can do whatever colours or brightness you fancy yourself, if mid-mode scares you with it's badass name and whatnot.
For the dev/s! There's only three real weaknesses in this right now that if you could solve would make it even more magical.
1) No profile options, so when you view your own profile the style sheet is fubard. At the very least a comment background colour setting for profiles would be nice.
2) Keep the extension window open until closed! Lots of fiddling and have to reopen the extension each time and scroll back to where I was is tiring.
3) Could you read a background image off of a specified local disk location instead of only through URL? I am using imgur for now but I have little faith in it.
This extension, this glorious glorious extension, a wet dream of mine and many, is the closest thing to a good Stylish replacement and makes New Reddit feel useable.
I hate dark mode, but I also hate light mode. Both cause differing eye issues, with this? I can finally make mid-mode (Er, we'll think of a more impressive name for it later) where nothing stands out blazingly bright enough to burn your retina (I have permanently dilated pupils). Of course this is a customiser so you can do whatever colours or brightness you fancy yourself, if mid-mode scares you with it's badass name and whatnot.
For the dev/s! There's only three real weaknesses in this right now that if you could solve would make it even more magical.
1) No profile options, so when you view your own profile the style sheet is fubard. At the very least a comment background colour setting for profiles would be nice.
2) Keep the extension window open until closed! Lots of fiddling and have to reopen the extension each time and scroll back to where I was is tiring.
3) Could you read a background image off of a specified local disk location instead of only through URL? I am using imgur for now but I have little faith in it.
Developer response
posted a year agoAmazing review haha, thanks! :D I'm glad your retinas aren't burning anymore!
Regarding your points:
1) I'll add a new style option in a future update for the profile page comment background colour.
2) Unfortunately, I can't make the popup stay open, but I have a few options you can try:
a) I added a "shade" button at the top right of the popup window. This will "minimise" the popup so you can see underneath, but if you click outside, it will close.
b) Perhaps a better way, you can click the "Options Page" button to open the options in a new tab. You could then drag and detach the tab and put it on a second monitor, or resize it and switch between it and your main browser window, or just keep it as a tab.
c) Bonus option. Go to "about:config" (in the URL bar) and search for "ui.popup.disable_autohide" and toggle it to "true". This will keep the popup permanently open, but you can't close it unless you toggle the option back to "false". You could combine this with the shade option!
3) I'm afraid not, I can't access user local storage for security reasons. However, it is possible to convert images to base64 code, then that code can be stored safely in the extension local storage in the browser. I think the maximum an extension can store locally is 10MB, so you'd have to use a small image or reduce the file size. Browser sync storage is only 100KB, so syncing images is out of the question. I could automate this process and you simply just upload an image, but you won't be any to store many.
Regarding your points:
1) I'll add a new style option in a future update for the profile page comment background colour.
2) Unfortunately, I can't make the popup stay open, but I have a few options you can try:
a) I added a "shade" button at the top right of the popup window. This will "minimise" the popup so you can see underneath, but if you click outside, it will close.
b) Perhaps a better way, you can click the "Options Page" button to open the options in a new tab. You could then drag and detach the tab and put it on a second monitor, or resize it and switch between it and your main browser window, or just keep it as a tab.
c) Bonus option. Go to "about:config" (in the URL bar) and search for "ui.popup.disable_autohide" and toggle it to "true". This will keep the popup permanently open, but you can't close it unless you toggle the option back to "false". You could combine this with the shade option!
3) I'm afraid not, I can't access user local storage for security reasons. However, it is possible to convert images to base64 code, then that code can be stored safely in the extension local storage in the browser. I think the maximum an extension can store locally is 10MB, so you'd have to use a small image or reduce the file size. Browser sync storage is only 100KB, so syncing images is out of the question. I could automate this process and you simply just upload an image, but you won't be any to store many.