Get Everything Done

I'll look into it.

I installed the script in Firefox 8 and Chrome 15 on Mac OS X 10.7. No obvious errors so far. Menu shows up in left sidebar, highlighting of Mark's posts works. No posts are highlighted as new. Let's see if Chrome highlights this topic/post when I submit it in Firefox.

Nope, no highlighting. But I do not experience all posts in a thread being highlighted as jFenter described.

Other way around?

Yup, its's broken alright. Have to find a way to trouble-shoot this without further spamming.

By the way, if you installed my script, you can get in touch with me by clicking on my name at the bottom of the userscript options box in the left sidebar. ;-)

Little status update: I decided to rewrite the script from scratch and take that opportunity to improve it by tracking read states for each topic instead of only one "last visit" date. Of course, I've had little time until today (Merry Christmas btw.) and I'm running into strange problems.

Currently my problem is that the dates on the overview page don't match with the dates inside a topic. Take the electric task lists topic: http://www.markforster.net/forum/post/1671656

The last post was written 16:15, but in the overview it says the last change was 16:26. Which triggers my script to permanently flag it as unread and drives me crazy. :-)

Be that as it may, I'll soon post a link to the first version of the new script.

Thank you, Mark.

For the adventurous: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1008673/mfimprovement2.js

The time differences are a result of the 'revise post' function. I fixed the problem by checking both date and post count.

The 'final' version of the user script is now available, please uninstall the old one as well as the above adventurous one if you have installed them.

Get the script from here: http://cdn.ahofmann.de/markforster.net/improvements.user.js

The reason why it's 'final' is that it doesn't do that much anymore. It only loads the real script and a css file directly from my server. This means: if you install this script, you'll get all future updates and new functionality automatically.

Currently, only the "Highlight New Posts" function is available, but I will add new features soon.

The script ignores posts older than a month. So if you install it for the first time, every topic within the last 30 day will be highlighted. You can either click through all of them once, or simply wait until they cross the time threshold.

Hint for Chrome users: Chrome seems to download the script instead of installing it if you click on the above link. Probably a security measure since the domain names don't match. Just copy the link and paste it into the location bar and it will prompt you to install it. I'll update my script download page to amend this issue.

It's kind of fun that I have the forum for myself, but it doesn't help with testing. :-)

Hugo:

Alright, I will. Yes, the current one is outdated. Like everything in my github account. :-\

Everyone:

Well, I suck, and therefore everyone please uninstall and reinstall the script from http://cdn.ahofmann.de/markforster.net/improvements.user.js one more time. Final indeed. The good news is that you won't lose your saved read data.

Hugo:

Should be fixed, no reinstall needed.

Dave:

IE doesn't support userscripts (as far as I know). Supported browsers are Firefox with GreaseMonkey, Chrome without an extension or NinjaKit and Safari with NinjaKit. Other GreaseMonkey-compatible extensions may exist, Opera will probably work.