Apologies for not actually putting anything out in months

I'm not sure how this could be implemented, but it would be really helpful to have

In navigating Lemmyverse for potential communities to subscribe to, it would be helpful to be able to redirect links to my home instance in a new tab to facilitate sorting through multiple communities at a time. Ideally, the option would be implemented with the ability to enable or disable either of the two context menu items to minimize context menu cluttering.

Say you want to message an admin of another instance. You can't look up who they are unless you go to that instance and have a look in the sidebar. You can click the admin to see their user page, but can't message them without opening that user page on your home instance.

In my head, this seems to be the exact same problem as communities, just applied to users.

So can we get a button on the user page to open that user on your home instance?

Thanks 🙂

This feature will be in 1.2.5, which is being submitted for review this week! I'm drafting this post early so that I can link it in the submission.

Open one of the following links, or try your favourite website. You can then use the 'Make a post' button in the popup or sidebar to generate a draft post with autofilled contents. Over time, we can customize how draft posts are generated for specific websites. Please comment below if you have thoughts on this feature.

I'm wrapping up with the new changes and I've started testing the extension for any remaining issues. Here is what you can look forward to:

Preview:

Changes with v1.2.5:

• Redirect posts to your home instance!: Post pages now have a redirect button that will find the same post on your home instance(1)
• Posts related to this webpage buttons in the extension popup
  • Make a post: This will pull the metadata from the page you are on and then open the post page in a new tab, autofilling in the title and URL. All you need to do is pick the community and hit 'Create'
  • Open Posts: This will check for any posts with the same URL, either as a link post or when the URL is in the post body. It will then open the post(s), but not before asking you when there are many posts. ([see note on why it doesn't count automatically](http

Status & Download Links:

Download from source: release v1.2.4 (github.com)

• While Edge and Opera are awaiting approval, you can install v1.2.4 from here, or through the Chrome store

Hi everyone!

On the surface, this update brings a handful of features integrating the extension with other tools and services. We have the first of many features from the LemmyTools userscript, as well as the support for

I finally got around to testing out the new changes and submitting the build.

I will make a proper post once it is approved on Chrome and Firefox, but if you get the update before I get a chance then you can read below for the new changes:

Changes with v1.2.4:

• search for communities through Lemmyverse.net or for posts through search-lemmy.com directly from the popup or sidebar
• First feature pulled from LemmyTools! You now have the option to hide the Lemmy sidebar entirely (more LemmyTools features to come!)
• Replaced non-functional 'subscribe' button on foreign /communities pages to make them useful (only when no account is signed in, so not to replace something functional)
• Initial support for Alexandrite & Photon frontends. Test them here:
  • Alexandrite: https://a.lemdro.id/c/lemdroid
  • Photon: https://nu.lemdro.id/c/lemdroid
  • New 'communityNotFound' button to account for alternate frontends: https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]
• Fix for

Links:

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Edge - v1.2.3 is still being approved, you can grab the release from Github if you are eager
• Opera: Still under review, please download from Chrome webstore or Github release.

For questions / support: [email protected] (alternate: https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant)

What's new?

(read on the wiki)

• You can now customize the instance list to match which instances you actually use. This should be helpful for those that have accounts on different instances.
• Added a settings page so that you can turn off features that you don't want active
• Added buttons for helpful tools

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/hnlndgeokcaocdklkbfjbfjplfnedehb

Similar to Chrome, this is v1.2.0, which doesn't have the right click context menu yet. Now that the previous version is approved, I've submitted v1.2.2 to Microsoft Edge as well. Cheers :)

I've made a number of improvements since the last time I was posting about my extension. The update is now available on both Firefox and Chrome web stores.

For questions / support: [email protected]

TLDR: See the respective download pages on Firefox & Chrome. The screenshots and features list are mostly self-explanatory.

Note on versions:

• Firefox has a more recent 1.2.1 version, because my build script missed some files while uploading v1.2.0. It doesn't look like Chrome had this issue.
• I'm uploading v1.2.2 to both stores today, which will bring the two missing features to Chrome as well. After 1.2.2, all browsers should have the same features. See below for details.
• EDIT: Version 1.2.2 is available on Firefox

So how is this different from other similar extensions?

Yo

I just submitted a large update to both Firefox and Chrome web stores. Once it goes through review, you will be able to update to the new version. I'll make more posts to spread the word after that process is done.

So how is this different from other similar extensions?

You may have noticed the extension's name changed to be more generic (and include Kbin 🥳). I'm trying to make this a more well-rounded extension, and that means I've incorporated some features from the other extensions, in my own way.

Lemmy Links, Kbin Links, and the other forks:

This is a great extension that replaces links on your page with versions that go to your home instance. However, in order for this to work, it needs to recursively check every element on your page whenever DOM content (say, the code the browser is rea

Links that should work

• UBC Lemmy - Using markdown link formatting
• UBC Lemmy - Using markdown link formatting
• UBC Kbin - Using markdown link formatting
• [email protected] - Using ! format
• [email protected] - Using ! format
• [email protected] - Using ! format
• https://lemmy.ca/c/ubc - no formatting, on home
• https://lemmy.ca/c/world - no formatting, on home
• https://kbin.social/m/ubc - no formatting, on home
• https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] - no formatting, on foreign
• https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] - no formatting, on foreign
• https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] - no formatting, on foreign

Links that should not work:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• https://example.com/
• example.com

Image file that should work:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/778315

Introducing the Lemmy Instance Assistant (browser extension)

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Hey everyone :)

I started using Lemmy during the blackout, and I was finding it annoying to subscribe to new communities that I came across. I wanted to be able to quickly open a link on my home instance instead of copy/pasting the code, searching for it, and then subscribing. I looked around for an extension and didn’t see any * , so I started working on my first browser extension!

Firefox version is live, the Chrome version is still going through the review/approval stage. I’m working on getting it on other browsers as well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant

This extension will let you set your home instance (https://lemmy.ca/ for me), and then it will insert a button onto community pages on other Lemmy instances (see screenshots on extension page). I tried to mimic the existing design for the button, and I