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AT Forum-specific extensions for archive thread navigation

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AStar617

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UPDATE: HERE IT IS, DOWNLOAD NOW! (Just open, don't save, using FireFox and it should give you the dialogue to install... or use CLI install) Tested on 1.5.x and 2.x. Tremendous thanks to MrChad for writing it.

UPDATE 2: IE7 version here! Thanks UCJefe :thumbsup:
1) Unzip files
2) Move the script.js file anywhere you want
3) Edit the AT_archive.reg file to contain the path you just moved the script.js file to. Just replace the text "c:\\temp\\script.js" with your path and remember to double up your backslashes.
4) Double click .reg file to install
5) Restart IE or open up a new window
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Test them here! 😉

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Here's my idea for a very simple but useful Firefox extension for AT Forums:

Ever follow a link to an archived thread, which has its own links to other old threads that have since been archived, but none of the post content has ever been updated so those 2nd-level links are all broken? I would find it extremely useful to have a context menu option so that when you right-click a URL, you can choose "AT Forum Archive". All it would need to do is append the string "&arctab=y" to the URL of the target hyperlink and load (a more complex version might check for the presence of the string in the URL, and add it only if necessary, so you can just click away at any questionable link and not disturb a properly archived thread). Unless the thread was outright erased by the Mod Secret Police, this will make archive navigation MUCH easier.

Inspired by some frustration following old threads dug up from the OOTY nominations.

Any takers? I'd pledge $1 via paypal as the start of a prize pool to reward whoever can make this a reality, and encourage anyone else here who would find it useful to do the same (I'll list any additional in-thread names/pledge commitments below)... should be very simple for someone who knows how to write extensions... 🙂 Presumably this would be "A Good Thing"(TM) for users of any other FuseTalk-based forums to have available as well.

PLEDGES closed, thanks:
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AStar617 - $1
Crono - $1
 
Or we could just ask someone with the power to do so to add a link to find the post in the archives to the error page that comes up when you hit a thread that had been archived.

 
Originally posted by: Injury
Or we could just ask someone with the power to do so to add a link to find the post in the archives to the error page that comes up when you hit a thread that had been archived.
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While we're at it, why don't we ask them to fix the search and give us a programming forum.

It's a waste of time trying to ask admins to fix this forum.
 
Originally posted by: Injury
Or we could just ask someone with the power to do so to add a link to find the post in the archives to the error page that comes up when you hit a thread that had been archived.
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True, but something tells me that if we can't get mods/admins to do stuff like add a programming forum, they won't customize actual Fusetalk code for something that isn't "broken" per se in the first place. At least not anytime soon.

I just figured that if the right member (a coder who is irritated by this like I am / we are) comes across this thread, they could throw it together without the red tape.

EDIT: iamaelephant beat me to it.
 
As an added suggestion, if you can't write code and can't offer $, maybe keep an eye out for any existing firefox extension that will append a specified string to a right-clicked URL via context menu, then load it.
 
Originally posted by: Injury
Or we could just ask someone with the power to do so to add a link to find the post in the archives to the error page that comes up when you hit a thread that had been archived.
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Or they could just cut to the chase and redirect you automatically :Q

AStar, this sounds like a good idea. I'd love to do it, but I've never done Firefox extension programming. Maybe I'll research it...
 
This is something that could have been done on the database with a 10 line php script a long time ago. Not that I know anything about the server setup, but I'm sure they have a DB slave somewhere that would be up to the task.

EDIT: Thinking of it, I actually have an acquaintance with a fairly well developed script that would be good for it.
 
Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
This is something that could have been done on the database with a 10 line php script a long time ago. Not that I know anything about the server setup, but I'm sure they have a DB slave somewhere that would be up to the task.
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I don't know, it just seems like your first sentence sort of undoes the 2nd one. If said DB slave exists and had time on his hands, there are much more broken things with the site that haven't been fixed yet... so this is a call for us to help ourselves.

 
I raised this in Forum Issues for a server-side fix and the thread was promptly locked without a reason. Oh well.
 
Originally posted by: screw3d
I raised this in Forum Issues for a server-side fix and the thread was promptly locked without a reason. Oh well.
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cased closed on that approach, I guess :roll:
 
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