Here are a bunch of small improvements to the OKCupid interface. Most of these were written one rainy weekend a little while ago.
To install these hacks, you need to be running Firefox (I'm using 2.0, and have not tested on any other version,) and you need to have the Greasemonkey plugin installed (0.7 preview, and likewise.)
- Fix Tags
- Restore Favorites' Comments Menu Item
- View More Comments & Journals
- Minimize Lame Posts
- Mark Read Comments
- Name Posts
- Thread Favorites' Comments
Fix Tags
This one fixes the problem with unclosed tags in journal comments. If you're reading comments, it will step in and close any dangling tags at the end of each comment. If you're posting comments, it will fix your tags before submitting.
Restore Favorites' Comments Menu Item
This one is pretty obvious. Favorites' Comments is the first place you ever go, but they took it out of the menu. Put it back.
(2007/07/20 Fixed; OKC rewrote the main menu for no apparent reason.)
View More Comments & Journals
The website is set up to be able to show you more than 50 of your favorites' comments, and more than 50 journals. But they didn't tell you about that... This hack puts an interface on that functionality. Good for those of us who occasionally stop reloading only to come back and find that comments have piled up beyond all recognition. If you're wise, you use this to increase the amount of time you spend not reading journals. If you're unwise, use this to avoid pruning your savedlist.
Minimize Lame Posts
Why do people press "blog this" on match questions? Why do they post test results to their journal when they are already well catalogued on their profiles? Why do people copy and paste garbage to chase up their invisible profile percentages? Why are you reading all that crap? You can do something about the last question, at least, since this script will try to detect and minimize all that lameness.
(2007/07/20 Update; Improved copy & paste and test result detection)
Mark Read Comments
This one provides a link at the top of the favorites' comments screen, which lets you declare all the comments up to that date as read. Afterwards, they will appear in minimized form.
This works best combined with Thread Favorites' Comments.
Killfile
This is not the hack you are looking for. There's nothing to see here. Move along.
Name Posts
This one learns the names of users and the titles of journals as you browse the site, so that when you look at Favorites' Comments you can actually see where they're commenting.
(2007/07/30 small bugfix; faster on journal & profile pages)
(2008/05/15 rewrote for the new formatting)
Thread Favorites' Comments
This one reorganizes your favorites' comments screen, with the comments sorted into collapsible threads, most recently commented thread first. If you install this you probably also want Mark Read Comments and Killfile.
Installation note: Make sure this is ordered after Mark Read Comments and Killfile in the Greasemonkey preferences.
(2008/05/15 changed for the new site format)