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Published: 2005-08-07 20:27:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 5782; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 670
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Description
NOW v5 COMPATIBLE! deviantFORUM - Mark Recent is a Firefox/Greasemonkey script that highlights the five most recent visible postings in a forum thread and tells you their chronological order. Handy in large threads with many subthreads.
Requires: Firefox and Greasemonkey
How to install and use it:
1) Install the Greasemonkey Extension and restart Firefox
2) Right-click the link below and choose "Install User Script" in the context menu. Alternatively, click the link and select "Tools -> Install User Script" in the menu bar.
3) Go to any Forum thread. The five most recent postings are highlighted with a blue bar and have a "...most recent (visible) comment" line in the header.
DOWNLOAD VERSION 1.1: [deviantFORUM - Mark Recent ]
Version History:
v1.1 [Aug 8, 2006] - Now v5-compatible, added a classname to the SPAN element I insert - maybe this helps the skinning people...?
v1.01 [Sep 22, 2005] - Bugfix regarding sorting (Still available )
v1.0 [Aug 7, 2005] - Release (Still available )
Known Issues:
The new layout doesn't give an easy-pretty way of marking the new posts. I now coded it to color the "...most recent (visible) comment" line. Still catches your eye, just takes some getting used to (like most of v5 
) The root posting is not counted as a comment. While this is certainly a bug (and will most likely spawn a 1.11 version soon), it only happens in threads with less than 5 replies. And I sure hope you don't need to rely on this script for threads of that size Misc. Stuff:
This script was my small contribution for dA's 5th birthday.
...and it was updated just after the 6th birthday because of the layout change
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Comments: 39
Line 19. Do us a favor and check your xpath returns before doing anything to them. Or, use a better include.
Either way, on the thread page, you throw an exception error.
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my greasemonkey cant install scripts .... 
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I've been using this for a long time and really like it.
I must say, I appreciate you updating this to v5 so quickly. It makes my forum experience much better again. And I just figured out how to change the color
Now to wait till =Zikes gets deviantplus updated.
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Nobody likes to lose features. So I figured I'd rather fix the more vital scripts before too many people poke me about it
Glad you like it
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A solution to the custom skin issue (with the colour being overridden) is to also append another classname to the div (say, "ND_markrecent") - this way it gives us a hook to use, and in our skins we can add .ND_markrecent {background:#f00}
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Well, I've included a class name now (even though the question is if it's actually needed now since I chose to create a new element for it in v5 anyway).
If it helps you guys, awesome. If something's got to be tweaked, please let me know... I'm all for extensions being able to co-exist
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Never commented on this, but I used it and have used it for quite some time. Almost to the point where I forgot this was an extension.
I found "MintCream" to be the most fitting colour. Nice work.
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It would be awesome if in a future version, it would mark threads I've already posted in when I'm on a forum main site.
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Is it not designed to work with a skin on DA? I don't see any difference in forum browsing when I added this.
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Does this work on subscriber forums too? If so, then it's a must-use for me.
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Blergh, totally forgot that dA turns links into [link]'s
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You mean in the private forums of subscribers? Not out of the box, but it's a good suggestion! In theory, you could add the line
// @include [link]
to the header. Or you just wait a few days or so and I'll include it in the upcoming improved version I'm working on right now
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Thanks, I'll do that. Helps my duties as a club admin a lot!
(We give "EXP" for using our club forum & shoutbox, and I'm the one who keeps track of all the new messages.)
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This looks fantastic; I'd love to be able to use it but unfortunately it doesn't colour comments when one has deviantSkin installed - the custom stylesheet overrides it since all of the CSS is marked as !important.
I've been trying to come up with a way around this but I haven't come up with anything particularly novel; all the ways I've thought of are far too impractical. Oh well; maybe one day
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I'm actually working on deviantSkin compatibility, but so far I've only had success with the "insert on page load" option of deviantSkin (as opposed to the "UserContent" one which stubbornly refuses to be overridden so far). I'll note you a link to a WiP version if you like (and if you don't use the UserContent) option. It's lacking a few options I wanted to implement before releasing a new version, but it at least is more compatible than the current one
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Oh I'd love that! I don't think anyone uses the UserContent method anyway; it's far less stable.
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I tried changing the color by putting another color's name (I check HTMLClinic's color chart to get a proper name), but when I did the whole put-the-script-into-word-change-things-save-it-load-it-in-Firefox thing, it didn't work.
Is there something I'm missing?
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Does it still mark them in blue? Or does it just break and do nothing?
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Try to edit it in Notepad then. Maybe something broke on the way with Word 
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Absolutely fabulous, this script will be very useful.
I'm going to install it right now.
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This is awesome. Like :ndifference: I might change the colour of the highlighted comments.
A good tool for us forum regulars
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Well, color's a personal preference anyway, so people should pick what fits them best. 
Glad you like it!
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Okay, who's the jerk who didn't tell me about this thing?
This is simply fantastic. Better than fantastic; it's essential. I don't know how I handled the forums without it. Fantastic work.
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"Okay, who's the jerk who didn't tell me about this thing? 
It's my late revenge for being constantly confused about your "Be generous" button. 
And thanks for the praise.
I wrote it after going through YET another "look for one new posting in a thread with 300+ replies" situation (I guess you know these situations... otherwise you wouldn't be here
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good one, as soon as I get home I'll install it and see how it works..lol
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I noticed recently that this plugin, brilliant though it is, has started highlighting incorrect posts. it'll say a post is the most recent, but underneath that post will be a number of replies! which are unhighlighted. any idea what that might be?
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Did you try the updated version I uploaded yesterday? The 1.01 one? -> [link]
I noticed it myself just then, it's a problem with the sorting of the comments. This only became an issue yesterday or so when the posting IDs went past the 10 million mark. So when you got (example) "c998", "c999" and "c1000", the script sorted them to "1000, 998, 999" (alphabetically
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Ah this is very useful! Only thing is, I don't get the blue highlight when i browse DA with a different skin, i do get the "most recent comment" line though.
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Hrm, yeah... I don't have custom skins here, so I never tried that out... 
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This is kick-ass. I changed the color to a pale green, but the mechanics of this thing are brilliant.
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