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April 7, 2009
Question

Usability tweaks

  • April 7, 2009
  • 12 replies
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Is there a thread anywhere that contains usability tweaks for the new forum UI?

I've seen this Stylish flex-width tweak http://forums.adobe.com/thread/414809#1870916

and Ramón has mentioned liberal use of AdBlock Plus to remove clutter and whitespace.

Is there anything else that would help?

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    April 9, 2009

    GreaseMonkey script to allow Show/Hide of ACTIONS sidebar is up!

    Instructions

    1. Download & install GreaseMonkey if you haven't done so already.
    2. Get the script from userscripts.org. (Click the Install button once you're there.)
    3. That's it, you should now see a little bit of text over the Actions Sidebar that says "Show|Hide ACTIONS". Click as desired.

    Caveats

    • It only works with FF3.
    • You have to install GreaseMonkey to use it.
    • You can enable/disable it using the little monkey icon in the bottom right corner of the window.
    • It does remember your current state, but on some pages it can take a while to activate (it runs only after the page is fully loaded, alas.)

    Hope this helps others,

    Eric. (aka heavyboots)

    April 7, 2009

    Well, I may try and learn GreaseMonkey this week. I'd like to make the actions column capable of disappearing until you actually needed it.

    Also, maybe replicate the bread crumbs an the "Up to Discussions ..." to the bottom of the page.

    I have no idea how easy/hard that is though. One reason I like Stylish is that it was a piece of cake by comparison to what a GM script looks like!

    S_D_A_
    Inspiring
    April 7, 2009

    I would take it easy on using scripts. It only takes one badly written one to impair the perfomrance of the forums, and you just might forget you're  using a script if/when that heppens. <shrug> YMMV