Raicuparta

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California just opened the floodgates for self-driving cars in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sure you might have a lower number of cars total, but you'll also have way more cars on the road, making the traffic problem even worse (because you can now have more cars than people). I'm guessing we'll be seeing legislation that disallows empty cars driving around in big cities.

I made a browser extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like it's not working for you. The extension is supposed to work without setting a preferred server. The instance list is supposed to be pre populated. Something must have happened that prevented it from getting the list. Also, when you click save, it's supposed to show a popup from the browser asking for extra permissions, and then in the Lemmy Go window there's supposed to be a text at the bottom saying "validating instance..." and then "success!", or some error. Is the rest of the extension working for you without setting the instance? It's weird because the instance list comes from the same place as the community list used for the suggestions, so I'm wondering why one would fail but not the other.

I'm working on an update that will show better logs for errors like these.

I made a browser extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I had never used Waterfox, but I installed it just now, to see why it doesn't work. Latest Waterfox is apparently based on Firefox 102, which doesn't support Manifest v3 extensions (and Lemmy Go is one of those). I tried to see if supporting v3 and v2 was feasible, but it's just too many changes even for a relatively small extension like this one. The changes themselves aren't too big a deal, but it would mean maintaining and testing two very different versions of the extension (which I already have to do for Firefox vs Chrome, but right now they are almost identical). I'd rather keep the project as simple as possible for now.

I expect Waterfox G6 (which is supposed to release in September) to support Manifest v3 extensions, so maybe we just need to wait a bit.

I made a browser extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Agh, thanks for the heads up. No idea how I managed to break that. It will be fixed in a few minutes once it redeploys.

I made a browser extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I've actually thought about it, but it sounds like too big of a project. I don't think I'd have the time to maintain it for free. Besides, Lemmy being open source means we should probably focus on directly improving Lemmy vs doing it via addons (I made a tiny fix a few days ago, I can see myself contributing in a more soon).

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I made a browser extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar (lemmy.ml)
 

tl;dr: With Lemmy Go you type lg beekeeping on the address bar and it takes you to the most popular beekeeping community, or you can pick one from the given suggestions.

Get Lemmy Go for Firefox

Get Lemmy Go for Chrome

More information about Lemmy Go on GitHub

Why

On Reddit, I had a simple search keyword for navigating directly to subreddits, where I could just type r firefox and be taken to reddit.com/r/firefox.

I wanted to have the same behavior for Lemmy, but the Fediverse makes this a lot more complicated.

So I made Lemmy Go to try and make it as simple as possible to jump to a community, or even find new ones more easily.

It's still a work in progress, so it might be a bit unstable and missing a bunch of features. But I've been using it myself for a few days, and it's already pretty helpful.

Usage

Type lg followed by a space (some browsers also accept tab instead), and then type the name of the community you're looking for.

Example: lg linux

Lemmy Go will search its database for any community that has the text linux in its name (e.g. linux_gaming) or title (Linux Gaming).

If you just type a community name and press enter, Lemmy Go will take you to the most popular community from that list.

If you don't press enter right away, you will be shown a list of communities that match that query. You can then select the specific one you want.

Preferred Instance

If you set your preferred instance in the user settings (click the extension icon), Lemmy Go will try its best to navigate to that community in your preferred instance, although this isn't always possible (in which case Lemmy Go will just navigate to the remote instance instead).

For instance, if your preferred instance is set to lemmy.ml and you select firefox@lemmy.world, Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.ml/c/firefox@lemmy.world.

But if lemmy.ml blocks the lemmy.world instance, then Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.world/c/firefox instead.

Read the readme on GitHub for more information about how Lemmy Go works

I'm making a browser addon for quickly navigating to Lemmy communities. (Update: It's out!) in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I released it for Firefox now: https://lemmy.ml/post/1974940

I'm making a browser addon for quickly navigating to Lemmy communities. (Update: It's out!) in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should work on any firefoxlike and chromelike browser

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EDIT: Lemmy Go is now available for Chrome and Firefox

I had a shortcut for subreddits, where I would just type r beekeeping in the address bar and it would take me to /r/beekeeping right away. For Lemmy, this isn't very convenient, since you gotta specify the instance for any communities outside your own instance.

I'm trying to make a browser extension to bring back that kind of quick navigation. In this case if you type lc beekeeping in your address bar and press enter, it will navigate to the most popular community it finds in any instance, and it will show that community in your local instance.

If you don't press enter right away, it will show multiple communities that match your query, so this can also be a quicker way to find new communities without knowing the exact name.

I'm checking if people would be interested just to see if it's worth the trouble to polish it up, add user settings, and publish the extension to the stores.