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Jaded Burnout

My good friends.

The loss of the Rotating Images from BYOB triggered a bout of introspection in the chat thread, among other emotions. Various suggestions for Alternate Fun Modifications appeared, along with some plaintive cries for the return of The Spin.

Well wait no more. I have created a Chrome extension/Firefox addon which can provide a configurable set of CSS mods to the bee why oh bee, so you can choose how to personalise your own Chill Experience.

If you've got any ideas for fun mods post them here, or if you're feeling technically minded you can contribute directly on github. I've added the classic spinning images to get us started.

If any of them become super popular, perhaps they could be enshrined back into the official CSS.

Go Hog Wild!

Jaded Burnout fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Feb 17, 2018

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 15:32

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 00:37

Jaded Burnout

Barking Gecko posted:

I don't use Chrome. How about an extension for Firefox?

Robot Made of Meat posted:

Such an thing would be greatly appreciated.

Ungrateful freeloaders! :argh:

Sure, I'll see what I can do.

Jaded Burnout fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Feb 17, 2018

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 18:05

Jaded Burnout

Hugh Malone posted:

can anyone help my hammock cat get out from behind the menu thing i cant figure it ouy

Where you want it, bruv?

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 18:06

Jaded Burnout

Hugh Malone posted:

Well, it would be cool if I could get some space between the big menu bar and the forum links so I can see the smiling cat...

Does Chrome cover up the hammock cat for anyone else?

I think you'd want something like

code:

.show-cat .forum_268 body {
  background-position-y: 60px;
}

.show-cat .forum_268 .showthread div#content {
  margin-top: 125px !important;
}

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 18:27

Jaded Burnout

City of Glompton posted:

i esp liked the button options

Do you have the knowing of where this script was? That we might extract the button images.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 18:31

Jaded Burnout

Mr Malone, I have added your request to version 0.2.0. I don't know whether new versions appear immediately in the chrome web store or what, I've not done this before.

Messrs Gecko and Meat, I did a Firefox for you. You'll have to be my unofficial testers I'm afraid. I'm pretty sure it works!

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 21:43

Jaded Burnout

Maybe someone could make some nice icons?

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 21:46

Jaded Burnout

Manifisto posted:

no but seriously, what is needed, what format/specs/dimensions should be used?

Good question.

Google posted:

Upload an icon image that represents this item, and ensure it complies with the following:
128x128 total pixels

For square icons, use alpha to make 16 of the 128 pixels per side transparent (96x96 visual weight)
For circular icons, the visual icon should be 112x112 (use alpha to make the remaining pixels transparent)
For other icon shapes, use alpha to maintain the same 96x96 visual weight

Additional advice:
Your icon should be flat; avoid noticeable perspective, 3D, and shadows.
Don�t use text in your icon.

They also accept 1280x800 or 640x400 screenshots, and "promotional tiles":

Google posted:

Provide images that the store can use to promote your item. The more images you provide, the more prominently your item will be featured.
Fill the entire region, using square corners and no padding (full bleed).
Use a medium or dark background.
Avoid text in the image as much as possible.
Don�t put white elements along the edges of the image; the edges should be well defined.
Don't use a screenshot.
Your image should display well when reduced to half size.

Mozilla are far less choosy for their icons, they just want a square JPG or PNG which will be downsized to 64x64. So probably best for it to be a power of 2, like 64x64 or 128x128.

They also accept screenshots but don't specify a size.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 22:12

Jaded Burnout

Robot Made of Meat posted:

I installed it, then exited and re-started FireFox. No spinning.

I see it in my FireFox Plug-In list, so apparently it installed.

Did you click the green puzzle piece and tick the "Spinning images" checkbox? They're off by default which maybe we want to change.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 22:13

Jaded Burnout

Robot Made of Meat posted:

Thanks a LOT, Jaded Burnout!

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 22:14

Jaded Burnout

Manifisto posted:

oh okay, you're looking for an icon for "BYOBeautiful" on the toolbar, is that right? I wasn't clear on what exactly you needed

Yah. But whatever really. If it's a fun idea we can do a thing.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 22:20

Jaded Burnout

TVsVeryOwn posted:

Dear Google,

BYOBeautiful 0.2 when?

Sincerely,

A Hammock Cat Lover

Oh, so I had another look and apparently uploading the new version just made a draft. I have pushed butan now.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 22:52

Jaded Burnout

I got bored and started looking at some of the suggestions in the chat thread. Kristen ITC is freely available but overriding the comic sans font is far more effort than I'm willing to put in on a sunday morning.

Replacing hammock cat with a random alternative from a selection is easy enough, but you're gonna have to provide me with some. Ideally hosted somewhere else like imgur.

Also what's with BYOB threads eating 100% of my CPU?

# ¿ Feb 18, 2018 12:43

Jaded Burnout

You could say the processor usage is.. high

# ¿ Feb 18, 2018 16:48

Jaded Burnout

Yah I think so.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2018 08:25

Jaded Burnout

TVsVeryOwn posted:

Can you make a speed slider for the image spinz?

I have done this. It's a bit messy. It is version 0.3.0.

Apparently Firefox are much faster at approving my updates than Chrome.

Note this controls the time it takes for the spin to complete not the speed of rotation because that's how CSS animations work, so less is more. Maybe I will do a thing to make that better later but not now.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2018 20:12

Jaded Burnout

TVsVeryOwn posted:

I have another feature request: can you make "Posted ITT mode"? It would be a way to see only the first post of every user in the thread. I currently have use for it for my cyberpunk thread but I could also see it being useful for novelty probates or future avatar edits.

Nothing is impossible if you throw enough computer at it, but I think this one is a step too far.

The issue is that you've got to filter through potentially thousands of separate pages and build a new one (or multiple?).

It's the sort of feature you'd want to put into the actual site rather than an extension.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2018 21:01

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 00:37

Jaded Burnout

Robot Made of Meat posted:

Are there any other cool little features that could be easily added?

Not sure if many people care, but it's a neat plug-in, and it's nice to be able to customize one's BYOB experience.

Anything which is kept within the context of a single page is pretty easy to do. i.e. it can appear on multiple pages but shouldn't try to load information from other pages.

The rotating set of hammock cat guest images would be a decent one, as would the high res version someone posted upthread.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2018 17:46

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