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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2430 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 19, 2024

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tl;dr simple RES ripoff for The Motte

I made a userscript to add keyboard navigation to The Motte. I've been missing RES keybindings since we ditched reddit and I finally got off my ass and did it myself. I call it Quokka Kit, or Quokkit for short. I pretty much just implemented my most-used RES keybinds and called it a day, so if there's a feature you'd like, poke me about it or have a poke at it yourself. It's got vi-like up/down navigation keybinds for comment threads and the front page (though I'm just noticing it doesn't do anything on page 2+ of the main site, so that's one for the queue), voting keybinds, opening comment threads from the front page, expanding post text on the front page, and returning to the front page. If you're used to RES keybinds they should be the same defaults here.

In the event you don't know how userscripts work, think of it kinda as a slapdash ad-hoc browser extension. But if you don't know how userscripts work, I wouldn't advise installing one in the first place.

Anyway, have a gander at it here, pull requests are welcome. It's very small, so you can vet it yourself (or I guess I should summon a mod that could vet it? @ZorbaTHut ). Obviously you'll need GreaseMonkey or TamperMonkey installed to install it, in which case clicking the Raw button (see attachment) on Github should pull up the userscript installer page. It's also GPL if you're into that.

Edit: just added comment reply and edit keybinds.

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Why use this over vimium?

Forum-specific keybinds like voting and replying and editing comments I guess. Why use RES over vimium?

No one responded, but I will let you know that this got multiple AAQC reports. So it will probably be in the next quality contributions roundup. People definitely liked it, good work!

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