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Published: 2006-12-30 15:54:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 325641; Favourites: 991; Downloads: 4060
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Description
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DeviantTidy is currently not Eclipse-ready.
At this time, I'm not sure when or if I'll update it.
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Download the Greasemonkey Script from Greasy Fork
View the project on GitHub
What's New
version 4.7.9 (2017-08-13)
For full details on what has changed, see the Full Version History .
About DeviantTidy
DeviantTidy is a set of styles and scripts to improve the layout and usability of deviantART.
Ever since dAv5, many users have been unhappy with various aspects of dA's layout and design. Some decisions on font size, margins and spacing had clearly been neglected.
And so DeviantTidy was written, to claim back much of that wasted space! Inspired by some of janvanlysebettens 's CSS mods for Firefox, DeviantTidy was a very lightweight modification to fix comment boxes and various other assets on dA pages, to make things clearer and more streamlined. Since then, it's expanded to cover lots of other annoyances, big and small, to improve the look and usability of the site, and with a JavaScript interface, it's fully customizable too.
Features
- More efficient Comment Boxes: DeviantTidy reduces the minimum height and margins on comment boxes, and further reduces the size of signatures, so you can see more comments at once. You can also add scrollbars to really long comments.
- Hide and collapse elements: Hide social sharing buttons, 'More Like This' mini-galleries and other bloat from deviantART pages so you can focus on your task.
- Indent guides: A problem that has been around as long as nested comments is the difficulty you face in working out who replied to who in long and complex discussions. With DeviantTidy, just point at a comment to see guide-lines in the left margin, showing you the exact nest level the comment is on.
- Cleaner Forum threads: Thread listings are now easier to browse, with all unnecessary icons removed, and shorter table rows (one line high instead of two, doubling the number of threads you can see per screen).
- Floating comment box: If you want to be able to type your comment on a deviation or journal while looking at the original, without having to constantly scroll up and down the page, this feature allows you to make the reply box float above the page content, following you wherever you scroll. Press ALT+SHIFT+C to activate it.
- Hide thumbnails in deviation sidebar: Reduce distractions by hiding 'more from this artist' and 'more like this' mini thumbnails when viewing art.
- Hide the orange Upgrade to CORE ad in the page header (turned off by default).
- ...and many more!
Installation
In order to use Greasemonkey scripts, you need to install Greasemonkey for Mozilla Firefox, or Tampermonkey for Google Chrome.
FAQ
How can I check that DeviantTidy is working?
When you first install DeviantTidy (or the script component), a dialog will appear when you visit any DA page to let you know that it was successfully installed. You should also see a 'DeviantTidy Options' link under the user menu on the header navigation when you are logged in.
Can I use DeviantTidy with [insert your favourite skin or script here]?
DeviantTidy can be used safely in combination with other custom deviant skins and scripts because it does the very minimum amount of changes required to get the desired effect. In the rare event of clashes in styles or broken functionality, tell me about the issue, and include info about the other mods you are using.
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Comments: 1841
I will do some testing with it to see if its a conflicting add on, I only have themes so one of the might be doing it. Ill will give it a shot on a fresh install on another machine
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I use Internet Explorer, but have been wanting to download firefox for quite a while. Problem is, I'm not sure about how safe it is to download firefox.
I have heard it is a lot better than IE, and having used it myself at school I've found it better, but it's hard to be sure how safe it is.
Any opinions?
And great idea for an add-on, by the way. Once I have firefox downloaded I'll probably get this add-on.
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Well, regardless of opinion, it's FACT that just about all browsers are safer than Internet Explorer. You shouldn't have any concerns about giving Firefox a try. Plus, you'll find you can customise it to be even safer if you wish, with extensions like AdBlock Plus, FlashBlock and NoScript.
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I've been doing some research on other sites as well as dA and it appears that firefox is indeed very safe to download and won't do anything to my computer. I'll download it when I get home from school - I'm on a school computer.
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You can even use Firefox on your school machines, if you download and run Firefox Portable from [link]
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The computer I use at school the most already has firefox, so there's not all that much point, but I'll do that next time I switch most used computers.
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I just downloaded deviantTIDY. Ohmigoodness it looks so much better than deviantart without it.
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Had to come back after using this for an hour just to say Da pages even load faster than before ! Bonus
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very brilliant. i really love this.
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I try to view DA on a slow connection barely faster than dial-up, it was hell till I found this plug-in. Now it loads up nicely without too much delay, occasionally none. I tether 1x on my cell phone :3
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Well, that's a surprise, since the style shouldn't affect loading times at all. Perhaps it was just a coincidence.
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Could be, but it's still going faster lol.
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I, too, have noticed it does speed things up a little bit if only with actual processing time in the browser and not in actual connection throughput. Regardless, <3 the extension. Nice to be able to fit more in the screen real estate here than having most of it hogged with 'whitespace'
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Indeed, this is great. 
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I'm a proud user and I have been for about 4 months. I'm wondering. did you add the drag and drop favorites thingie?
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Glad to hear it's making your life easier! 
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Ok I read all the description, but I don't have time to read all the deviants comments to maybe find the answer, but I wanted to know is when you go to install it says something about "Certificate Verification"..."Unable to Verify the Identity" and so on, but my question is, Is it ok and safe for my computer?
I would love to have the set up, but I wanted to ask you about that first. Thank You.
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I've been trying to give Firefox 3 users a secure connection to the extension because it requires one. It hasn't worked at the moment, so I've changed the link back. You won't get any security errors now.
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Hm...'Valid Install Package' warning. No install. 
-Josh
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Uhm....can't download it right now. Service unavailable or bandwidth problem. I could get it from work, but I have to wait til tomorrow!!!
-Josh
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Yeah. Sorry about that. Our department's server has been unstable this week. As of writing this, it works fine.
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hey, i strongly urge you get rid of the brighter signatures, its really shitting me off, and i cant get the old deviantTIDY back, can you please fix that?
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'Brighter' signatures? Do you mean semitransparent?
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Hmm... Well many people have had differing opinions on every aspect of the signatures, including the border width and font size. How much does it really annoy you?
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allloooot D:
its more the fact the emotes are semi transparented, i dont care so much about the text
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You know you can turn off signatures completely?
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Any chance on getting an updated version for the beta releases, soon?
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There doesn't appear to be any problem with the beta for Collections so far... Unless you have any suggestions?
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Agh, shoot - I didn't clarify enough. That was my bad.
I meant Firefox 3 Beta 2 - which currently does not support this version of deviantTIDY. Greasemonkey has offered an updated version of its program, but I would love to see deviantTIDY updated as well. (Or at least, an alternate link for those who don't do beta releases.)
Sorry for the confusion!
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Unfortunately, I am not able to test it in FF3 yet. Are you able to do it for me? I'd like to get confirmation before mindlessly incrementing the compatibility values.
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I'd love to test it in FF3 Beta 2 for you!
Right now I can just tell you that the script won't launch because this version is (strangely) not backwards compatible.
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Do you mean the extension won't install, or you have installed it and it doesn't work? If it's the former, then you need to edit the install.rdf and modify the max version variable. If you don't know how to do that, then I'll provide a version for you.
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It has installed, but gives me a warning that it's incompatible with FF3 and therefore is disabled automatically.
Screenshot: [link]
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OK, that kind-of what I meant by 'didn't install'.
Download and install this: [link] - I have boosted the max version to 3.0 beta 3. I noticed that Greasemonkey is already compatible on your addons list, so it should work fine. Your testing is very much appreciated!
PS. When the official update to deviantTIDY comes out, you will most likely have to uninstall the above version first.
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Okay, I tried installing it, and it gave me a pop-up that said "deviantTIDY" will not be installed because it does not provide secure updates, which is the same error message it was giving me before (if you take a look at the screenshot).
You're welcome! I'm a really big fan, I think dA should implement that CSS as the default style - I love the smart use of space.
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Okay... I've updated the extension to use up to 3.0b2 and made my links https, so if you download from the deviation page, you shouldn't have any complaints about insecure updates.
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Well, I went to the original deviation, and I got this popup:
www.doc.ic.ac.uk uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.
(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
God, this browser has security issues. :/
I also tried to save the .xpi file and open it with the browser, to see if seperating the process out did anything, and after I hit "Save" it gave me this popup:
C:\Documents and Settings\Kelly\My Documents\deviantTIDY.xpi could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.
Try again later, or contact the server administrator.
Could that last one be a problem with just my computer?
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Did you try going to the website regardless of the security certificate? Our department's certificate is out of date, I think.
To attempt installing an extension from your hard disk, drag it from an explorer window into the Firefox window. It might behave differently that way.
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I'm not sure I understand. I was just trying to download the script from the deviantTIDY page on dA. And I can't download it to even get it into Explorer. :/
Were you talking about another site where I can download the script from?
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