Modern theme with new post counter? Yes we can!

February 26, 2015 6:14 PM

With help from pb, I've put together a Greasemonkey userscript to display the old "x new posts and comments since your last visit" message that's been removed from the new Modern Theme.

You can get the script here, clicking the "Raw" button should prompt to install it with Greasemonkey.

It does a query for the new posts/comments since your last visit and displays them in a small badge in the navigation menu, looking like this. This will work on metafilter, ask, meta, music, and fanfare - counts aren't available for the other subsites.

I've tested it on Firefox 35/Windows with Greasemonkey, but it's simple enough that it should run just fine on other browsers - please let me know if it doesn't [or feel free to fork the gist or comment on it].

pb explained why the counter isn't displayed by default in the modern theme in this comment, and was very helpful in putting this together, so thanks pb!

I've put together a couple of other Greasemonkey scripts some of you might find interesting, and here I shall shamelessly flog my wares: Metafilter User Tagger and Metafilter Reorder Signatures.

posted by xqwzts to MetaFilter-Related at 6:14 PM (8 comments total)

Or, you could just use the classic theme, I suppose
posted by yhbc at 7:43 PM on February 26, 2015 [1 favorite]

I disagree. I'm still using the classic theme, but mostly just because I fear change. There are a few greasemokey scripts that make the site work better for me (yay no dots in obit threads!) If something improves the functionality of the modern theme for some users why would you care?
posted by ActingTheGoat at 9:16 PM on February 26, 2015

This "internet" with its "text" and "images" is so unnecessary. Why, smoke signals, semaphore and morse code work just fine.

(Thanks for making this, especially after the request for this feature a mere day ago.)
posted by filthy light thief at 9:30 PM on February 26, 2015

Great job!
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 10:50 PM on February 26, 2015

gilrain: "a bunch of us would love an updated version of plutor's Mefiquote."

There's a relatively easy copy-n-paste fix you can make to the source code of MeFiQuote to get it working again, but I can't find it right now. Search the new theme MetaTalk threads and you should be able to find it.
posted by Rock Steady at 6:53 AM on February 27, 2015

I'm not sure exactly where the fix was, but I've pastebin'd my working version of the script. It may have some other little edits made to it that I prefer, like the [quote] is replaced with ["].
posted by Rock Steady at 7:18 AM on February 27, 2015

(Thanks for making this, especially after the request for this feature a mere day ago.)

Yup that's where I got the idea from, so thanks to Mr. Yuck for that.

This comment by savetheclocktower has the fix for MeFiQuote.

There's also Jeff Howard's Metafilter Quoting Bookmarlet, which I think does the same thing?
posted by xqwzts at 7:23 AM on February 27, 2015 [1 favorite]

Whee! Many thanks.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 7:39 AM on February 27, 2015