Discussion Quickly find all Frontier Developer posts

[wolverine2710]

Best "dev post finder" so far. I did use another one but that basically showed omly posts the moment I started with the RSS feed - OK one day of historical data iirc. Still VERY useful. Your tool shows the complete history of dev posts it seems. I´ve created a post for it in the 3rd party tools thread. Later its going on the TOO list and later still on the OP. Thanks for creating this excellent tool. Did miss it because it got snowed under in the forums.

A suggestion: What would be very useful (for me) is be a way to sort the "dev post" so that I could for example sort on the FDEV (ie author). Anotherr one would be to see only posts by a specific FDEV. Not sure if that what would even be tecninally possible. If possible would that be something you would be interested in adding to the tool? The tool is a real lifesaver to check out what current and future development of ED is going to be!!

 

[jojje]

A suggestion: What would be very useful (for me) is be a way to sort the "dev post" so that I could for example sort on the FDEV (ie author). Anotherr one would be to see only posts by a specific FDEV. Not sure if that what would even be tecninally possible. If possible would that be something you would be interested in adding to the tool? The tool is a real lifesaver to check out what current and future development of ED is going to be!!

Hi Wolverine, still around I see
Sure, I could do that. I'll start with the sorting bit since that's pretty straight forward. The filtering per author I'll have to think about an intuitive way to do it. Feels wrong being lazy and just adding a search field. It's 2015 after all so some usability thinking is needed for this I reckon. Technically it's not a problem at all, but it's been a long day for me and my brain is too mushy to come up with a way I as a user myself would like to interact with that feature. If you or anyone else have any [good] ideas, do let me know, so we end up with something that feels right.

 

[jojje]

Ok, sorting is now in at least.
Do note that the shear amount of information on the page can make sorting a bit sluggish. On my intel i4770 it takes about 1-2 seconds to sort the posts from the main ED forum using Firefox. Google Chrome is a bit quicker, but the delay is still noticeable.

I've looked into what's so slow, and the browsers spend most of their time just drawing the table, so there is not much I can do about it. It's similar to the delay when the table is first shown on the forum. Fetching the data is fast, but drawing it seems to bog the browsers down a bit. Again, this will likely only be noticeable when there are thousands of rows (currently about 5-6K rows of dev posts shown from the main forum).

 

[jojje]

@wolverine2710, I had a few minutes last evening to get the filtering in as well, so your two requests are now incorporated.

 

[wolverine2710]

Hi Wolverine, still around I see .

I'm back in the country!! Hence at least time to be visible in the forums again AND ED awaits after a 3+ months break ;-)

I must stop smoking the good stuff it seems. For the life of me can't remember you. In which threads did we have had contact?
I want to thank you for both implemented features. Sooo cool. Didn't realize how good this tool is compared to others which are based on an RSS feed!!! The integration in the normal forums is brilliant as is the fact it shows posts depending on where you are in the forums. Not to forget the fact that one does have a complete historical overview.

 

[jojje]

Yeah, I did give it some thought regarding integration, essentially how I would imagine an OK tracker if frontier was to deliver it.
The built in tracker is better than nothing i guess, but it felt very lacking to me. As you pointed out, what I was really missing was a way to get a holistic view of what the devs have told the community throughout history, and to be able to quickly find the post that some person was referring to. For example "It was mentioned in DDF by <dev> or around <time> I think". Hunting down such references was really cumbersome without a tool like this, so that's why I didn't settle for what's currently in frontier's phpbb code base.

 

[jojje]

Ok, think it's now complete, looks and behaves as a native part of the forum. Unless it breaks I don't see me touching this thing again.
If it were to break, PM me, as months can pass between me checking in on the ED progress.

 

[wolverine2710]

Today I updated from 2.3.1 to 2.4.2. After the upgrade the tool doesn't work any longer - as in no 'show dev posts' button is any longer shown in firefox. Is any one else having the same problem.

To determine if it perhaps something on my system, is there a way to download/install an older version (2.3.1 in my case) so I can test if its the 2.4.2 or something on my sytem?

 

[clavain]

Nice tool, good job! and thanks!

 

[wolverine2710]

Today I updated from 2.3.1 to 2.4.2. After the upgrade the tool doesn't work any longer - as in no 'show dev posts' button is any longer shown in firefox. Is any one else having the same problem.

To determine if it perhaps something on my system, is there a way to download/install an older version (2.3.1 in my case) so I can test if its the 2.4.2 or something on my sytem?

I've installed TamperMonkey on Chrome. I'm getting the same results as with FF. No "show dev posts" 'button' is shown. I would love to test with 2.3.1 to see if its the script or something else completely. I hope you can provide me with the older versions of the script.

 

[jojje]

I've installed TamperMonkey on Chrome. I'm getting the same results as with FF. No "show dev posts" 'button' is shown. I would love to test with 2.3.1 to see if its the script or something else completely. I hope you can provide me with the older versions of the script.

Did you guys notice I moved the button?

It's now to the right of the "NEW POST" menu item (to the left of the twitter icon) and it's called only "DEV POSTS".
Do you see it?

 

[jojje]

I've uploaded the version 2.3.1 for you to compare if it works better: http://ed.apicrowd.org/ed/dev/FDevPosts_230.user.js

Let me know. Aside from cosmetic changes between that version and 2.4, I did some internal restructuring, using a bit fancier jquery mechanisms to make the code easier to understand and maintain, but it may well be that those changes don't work well in all cases. There have been reports on the web that certain jquery features don't work well with greasemonkey, so I'm keen to know if we've stumbled upon one such case here.

 

[jojje]

In case anyone runs into problems and want to scrutinize what I've done between versions, or use an older version, I've now published the source to github. That location will be considered the authoritative master for the script, and any old links to other places can be disregarded.

As part of that move, I also changed the update location, so that greasemonkey / tampermonkey updates the script automatically when new versions arrive. I.e. no need to keep checking this thread for updates, as fixes should be automatically applied.

If you find a problem, or find a way to speed things up, feel free to fork the repo and send me a pull request.

PS. unfortunately I was dumb enough to store the local git repo in the GM-folder, not realizing that greasemonkey wipes that entire folder when it updates scripts. Luckily I had some history on another machine, so that's why the history begins at version 2.2.0 and not all the way back to last year's initial release.

 

[wolverine2710]

Did you guys notice I moved the button?

It's now to the right of the "NEW POST" menu item (to the left of the twitter icon) and it's called only "DEV POSTS".
Do you see it?

Been hitting the wall with my head the last hour. Feel much better now.
I did NOT notice it was moved. It was staring me in the face all the time. FF works, Chrome works. Feeling THAT stupid. Thanks for the reply ;-)

Edit: The dev posts now integrate, blend in much better in the forum pages, a bit to much for stupid ppl like me ;-(

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I've uploaded the version 2.3.1 for you to compare if it works better: http://ed.apicrowd.org/ed/dev/FDevPosts_230.user.js

Let me know. Aside from cosmetic changes between that version and 2.4, I did some internal restructuring, using a bit fancier jquery mechanisms to make the code easier to understand and maintain, but it may well be that those changes don't work well in all cases. There have been reports on the web that certain jquery features don't work well with greasemonkey, so I'm keen to know if we've stumbled upon one such case here.

Going to use both 2.3.2 and the latest 2.4.x to see if I notice something different.....

 

[Missileman]

This is very useful nice to know what the devs are up to

 

[Aussiedroid]

Just wondering if there might be a chance to change it so the newest posts are on the top of the list of posts rather than the other way around?

Many Thanks.

 

[wolverine2710]

Just wondering if there might be a chance to change it so the newest posts are on the top of the list of posts rather than the other way around?

Many Thanks.

Afaik by default the dev posts are sorted by "Posted" descended. Hence it newest posts are on top. You can sort on any of the columns by clicking on it. You can even set a filter by shift clicking. Not sure, why its sorted different for you. Perhaps with cookies your preferences where stored and you once had selected "Posted ascending". But perhaps I've misinterpreted your post and you meant something different.

 

[wolverine2710]

It seems not all dev posts are displayed. I noticed this in the thread "Mac Beta Bug Reports". The dev posts button IS shown but no dev post is shown. I checked and all posts I checked are by "commander" "Frontier QA" which is not a single person. Could you please add that commander to the list of known devs?

 

[wolverine2710]

It seems not all dev posts are displayed. I noticed this in the thread "Mac Beta Bug Reports". The dev posts button IS shown but no dev post is shown. I checked and all posts I checked are by "commander" "Frontier QA" which is not a single person. Could you please add that commander to the list of known devs?

a PM you mentioned you had added the idea for "Frontier QA". Indeed, it works like a charm now, including older FQA messages. Thanks a lot ;-)

 

[wolverine2710]

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