so question....are there any userscripts for this website? - Feed Post by Kotomi
so question....are there any userscripts for this website?
posted by Kotomi
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^^- I was wondering, what would kind of userscript are you hoping to find? What would you like it to be able to do?
I was just curious. Only have like 7hrs of users root experience, and thought the ideas ppl come up with were interesting. So I just wondered. Have to really given thought to what I'd like to be able to do here. When I do, I know I'm free to speak- Typos for days -_-'
7hrs of userscript experience*
Haven't really given en thought to things I'd like to do here* - Ah, okay. I was just interested to see if I could find out some more cool ideas for a userscript. I've made a few myself but I haven't uploaded any of them publicly.
Here are some of the main ones I've made:
・Chat page message notification -- Plays a *ding* sound each time a new message is posted on the Chat page (still need to have the Chat window open, but can have it in the background while doing other stuff).
・Romaji / furigana / yomigana removers -- Hides these texts in Lessons, Lesson Tests, Practice, Readings articles, Readings Quizzes, etc.
・Practice font switcher -- Switches the font of the question/answer text to a random Japanese font each time a new question loads. I downloaded around 100 Japanese fonts and entered their names in the list of fonts to use. Some of the fonts are very crazy styles that are hard to read, but I liked the idea of getting used to different Japanese typefaces.
・Practice answer-by-typing mod -- Completely hides the answer choices list and instead shows a text box where you must type the answers. This is intended as a "Hard Mode" for people who have used the site a long time.
And here's a new one for the Readings section which I've been wanting to make for a while:
・Readings page vocabulary list auto-scroller -- When you hover your mouse over a word in the article text, I want it to automatically scroll the matching word in the vocabulary list into view and highlight that entry.
However, making this new userscript has proved to be very challenging, due to the way some parts of the Readings page are designed. Occassionally I have another shot at making it, but so far I haven't succeeded in figuring out any sensible way that would work. - If you do think of anything good, I'll definitely be interested. However, at the moment I don't think it's a good idea to upload my userscripts online. I don't want people who have no idea what they are doing to install them and then have difficulties with using this site afterwards. It would be bad if they don't understand how to disable userscripts, especially if the site itself gets updated and the userscript ends up causing a page to not display correctly.
So if you do mention a good idea, I may well end up making it for myself, but I probably still won't upload it... I'd still like to hear some ideas though. ^^; 
I would love a script to remove romanji from tests. Why has this not yet been implemented?
And the several fonts thing is neat too.- All of those ideas are really great though! I especially like the Hard Mode, sound notification for chat. It would be cool if the. Hat window could pop out though.... It would be even more awesome if I could get your scripts *wink wink*
