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Website forum reply tweak

User Profile: RarelyCharlie
RarelyCharlie March 30th, 2016

Here's a way to reply in forums while still being able to read and scroll the thread behind the box where you type your reply. You can also copy and paste from the thread into your reply, or look up people's profiles.

Before and after

The reply box shown here is quite small, but if you have a lot to say you can make it bigger.

This only works in some web browsers, and it requires some setting up that takes a couple of minutes. For all the details see the document: Website Tweaks Overview

If you already have it all set up and you just want to install this tweak, here's the link: Install

The main forum thread for all of this is: Web site tweaks

For information about other tweaks, see the document: List of Tweaks

If you have comments or suggestions about the forum reply tweak in particular, feel free to reply here or send me a message.

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User Profile: soulsings
soulsings March 30th, 2016

@RarelyCharlie cool stuff but no time to try it now. Put it on the to do list.

I create a tab with the message and another tab with the reply and then I can go back from one to the other.

Thanks for sharing.

User Profile: cinnamoncocoa
cinnamoncocoa June 29th, 2016

These are brilliant.
When I click "install" I get an alert saying "apps, extensions, and user scripts cannot be added from this website," any idea why or how to fix it?

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User Profile: RarelyCharlie
RarelyCharlie OP June 29th, 2016

Hi Lee!

Thank you for letting me know about this problem. I haven't seen it happen myself, but Googling the error message reveals that it's probably a security feature in Chrome, and it looks like there are a couple of ways to work around it. I won't be able to try and reproduce the problem and confirm how to fix it until the weekend at the very earliest. I'll reply again in this thread when I know more.

I should also say that some of the existing tweaks need to be updated following changes to the 7 Cups website, and I'm also planning to do that work in the next week or two.

@cinnamoncocoa

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User Profile: cinnamoncocoa
cinnamoncocoa June 29th, 2016

@RarelyCharlie

Alright, thanks, keep me posted :)

User Profile: cinnamoncocoa
cinnamoncocoa July 1st, 2016

@RarelyCharlie @soulsings
using the workaround described here (link) I got these to work :)

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User Profile: cinnamoncocoa
cinnamoncocoa July 1st, 2016

I ended up installing tampermonkey, going to "add new" and then opening your files in TextWrangler and copy-pasting the script.

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User Profile: soulsings
soulsings July 1st, 2016

@cinnamoncocoa you can go into the wrench in Chrome and select Settings and see if you have blocked the use of this or restricted it. :)

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User Profile: KrinkTheMellowUnicorn
KrinkTheMellowUnicorn October 17th, 2017

@RarelyCharlie - thanks for sharing this cool tweak!

How does it behave on iPads?

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User Profile: RarelyCharlie
RarelyCharlie OP October 17th, 2017

This tweak is very old, and quite possibly no longer cool frown

Tweaks like this only work in some web browsers. I am not aware of any iPad browser that supports it, although I haven't looked recently.

@KrinkTheMellowUnicorn

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