Latest version: | 2.4.4 |
Released: | 2016-06-14 |
Works with: | Greasemonkey addon (Firefox), Tampermonkey extension (Google Chrome) |
Download: | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devjo/ed-dev-tracker/master/FDevPosts.user.js |
Previous versions: | https://github.com/devjo/ed-dev-tracker/releases |
- 2.4.4 Bugfix, script was completely broken.
- 2.4.3 updates of the script will now be automatic, by having moved the source and update location to github.
- 2.4.2 fix initial sorting order (ascending) when clicking a new column.
- 2.4.0 changes the ugly button into one that melds with the theme, placed right of the New Posts button at the top of the page. See pic. below.
- 2.3.1 adds filtering by shift- or alt-clicking on a column header. Press escape or enter in the filter field to close it.
- 2.2.0 adds sorting by clicking on the column headers.
- 2.1.1 internal optimization (that only concerns fdev sysop): avoids redundant fetching of not needed images, when getting the thread page from which the post content is extracted.
- 2.1.0 shows the dev's post when hovering over the thread title (see screenshot).
- 2.0.2 fixes an issue where sorting was chronological in Chrome.
- 2.0.0 adds context sensitive filtering of which posts to show.
- 2.0.0 works again.
I've finally gotten around to updating my little dev tracker

Hovering over a thread title shows what the author wrote in that post.

For example, if you're at the Elite Dangerous root forum, you will see a huuuuge list of all the dev posts posted in any of the sub forums.
If you navigate to a particular forum, you will only see dev posts for that forum, and if you start reading a thread, you will only see the dev posts in that thread (if any).
This context sensitive filtering was a feature request for the old version, but before I got a chance to implement it, Frontier changed the entire forum which broke everything. Thus this change got put on the back-burner.
The previous script was very uncivilized and aggressive on Frontier's backend servers and that has been remedied as well. This version gets its data from a cloud server that I host elsewhere. That data is scraped off the forum. Well actually, only "metadata" is being scraped (to borrow some NSA parlance), not the actual post content, as I don't need it for this feature.
The scraping happens slowly and civilized roughly every 15 minutes, so there may be a 15 minute gap in the accuracy. I hope you guys can live with that, since I don't want to put undue pressure on the forum servers (you seem to manage that by yourselves).
Oh, one last thing, if anyone else would like the data itself for some other community tool..
Note: if you want to use the data, I ask only that you respect the Last-Modified & ETag headers. I don't want to start banning and throttling, but I will if people use stupid tools like curl or wget without respecting the update frequency the server announces. Or if that's too sophisticated, then just don't fetch more frequently than once every 15 minutes.
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