Neaveru

Install Script (Must have Greasemonkey installed on Firefox)

I created a greasemonkey script (FIREFOX ONLY, for now) to show the digg ups and digg downs on digg stories. Here’s a picture of what it looks like now:

For those who are interested, details are below. Those who aren’t can’t just go straight to downloading the script.

Some bugs that I am aware of:

• If you digg a comment up or down, the up and down don’t get updated. (Simple fix, I believe)
• Sometimes, the up and down don’t match the current rating. There is no fix to that. I’m retrieving the most up to date info from the API and sometimes either there is a delay with that or there is a delay with either the api (likely) or digg. This shouldn’t be a big problem, I’ve only noticed it once or twice while testing and it was only off by one.
• Doesn’t work with Opera. Will be fixed soon, for both of you.
• Under heavy load, the ups and downs may not get loaded. You can see if there was an API error in your javascript console, it will probably say error 500. Not sure what I can do about that. I could possibly make the API keep trying, but that’s just going to compound the problem on the server
• There is a delay, especially when loading large pages. Don’t know what I can do about that, but I’ll look into it

Features I want to add:

• Clicking on the number of digg downs or digg ups will down down or digg up the story.
• Ability to choose the design for how to display the ups/downs. (See previous post)
• Implementing any ideas you suggest.

Other random bits of information:

• Overhead: There is of course some overhead when using this. Essentially, for every comment you see, the script needs to retrieve that comment again from the api server. This is done asynchronously thanks to AJAX, so the page won’t load any slower than before (Unless you’re running on something like a 56k modem, in which case, welcome to the 21st century).
• Errors: Let me know if you run into any errors. They should be logged on the javascript console. (Firefox: Tools -> Error Console, should be under messages or errors depending on what the issue was).