Popular Google Chrome extension

[TridenT]

I have a relatively popular Google Chrome extension that I made. But, it relies on a certain website not updating its code basically ever. Difficult since the code actually gets updated almost every other day but since I do a lot of special regex magic, it just figures it out anyway. Today they did a more particular update and it broke a lot of extensions that are like mine (heh). None are like mine and on the google chrome store though. Anyway, I fixed mine within an hour of it breaking and sent it out for a release.

Even still, mother fuckers left me negative reviews in that hour long window where it's broken. Saying, "It was working great yesterday and then today it just stopped for no reason! 3 stars, asshole!" Of course, since updates don't come down immediately after I update, it could be that it stays broken for a day or two (maybe longer?) on some systems. Meaning, more negative reviews are bound to happen and people won't update their review even if I reply and tell them it's all Ogre now.

:'(

 

[Strk]

I don't know if you know this, but people are frequently impatient, especially on the internet.

 

[balloonshark]

Some people shouldn't be allowed to post reviews. I see these idiots everywhere and ignore their reviews.

 

[sdifox]

Fuck them

 

[88keys]

The amount of stupidity on the internet has increased in parallel to the increase of size and bandwidth. This is not coincidence that that the innocuous AOL idiots of the 90s have evolved into the belligerent Facebook idiots we have today. The world now operates at the speed of stupid and we all need to accept the fact that that letting the average everyday person speak their mind on public stage has consequences when the average everyday has no mind to speak of.

 

[lykaon78]

Link to said Chrome extension?

Nope.
admin allisolm

 

[lxskllr]

Some people shouldn't be allowed to post reviews. I see these idiots everywhere and ignore their reviews.

This, and anyone that knows anything can parse reviews to weed out the idiots. Stupid people may take stupid reviews as fact, but you don't want idiot users, right? Think of them as a service weeding out future headaches ;^)

 

[Maximilian]

Link to said Chrome extension?

Nope.
admin allisolm

Why? I think its pretty cool someone from here made a chrome extension

Although I just googled and it dosent look too complex to get a basic extension up and running: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted

Getting one that's actually useful/popular that's the real trick!

 

[pcslookout]

Why? I think its pretty cool someone from here made a chrome extension

Although I just googled and it dosent look too complex to get a basic extension up and running: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted

Getting one that's actually useful/popular that's the real trick!

That would be advertising.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

With you working at Google, shouldn't you just go over to development and bitch them out for breaking your extension?

After all I'm sure you have a lot of pull over there .

 

[TridenT]

That would be advertising.

Regardless, pretty much everyone here who uses Chrome would use my extension. Only reason it isn't /more/ popular is that it is possibly against Chrome's stupid TOS. (It doesn't do anything unethical IMO) I'm waiting for the inevitable takedown.

 

[TridenT]

Over 50,000 users. Got removed from the store though.

Annoying. :|

 

[olds]

That would be advertising.

He could post it in his sig though.

 

[clamum]

Nice. I'm working on one that hides specified peoples' threads on vBulletin forums. It's mostly working but I gotta update it so you can specify which thread authors you want blacklisted (the list is hardcoded right now).

I'm a developer so I figured it would be quite easy to write a Chrome extension, but goddamn, it ain't IMO. There's a lot of reference material available, even right from Google, but figuring out what everything means and putting it together is what's hard. It's certainly been way, way harder than I thought it'd be.

 

[TridenT]

Nice. I'm working on one that hides specified peoples' threads on vBulletin forums. It's mostly working but I gotta update it so you can specify which thread authors you want blacklisted (the list is hardcoded right now).

I'm a developer so I figured it would be quite easy to write a Chrome extension, but goddamn, it ain't IMO. There's a lot of reference material available, even right from Google, but figuring out what everything means and putting it together is what's hard. It's certainly been way, way harder than I thought it'd be.

It depends on what you're doing but it can be quite confusing at first. Gotta be like, "Crap, there's background pages, content scripts, and then there's injected scripts... and they all need to talk to each other right now and I need to reference localstorage...... Fuck."