(Posted on my public account, but this is my main.)

Details:
* Does mark any tags it opens as Read by virtue of the opening
* Only opens Comment Replies, Top-level Comments, and New Entry notifications.
* Ignores (does not mark as read!) Circle Updates, Direct Messages, Site Notifications, Deleted notifications, and Unauthorized notifications

THE BIG QUESTION: Right now I haven't solved how to introduce a hard limit on how many tags it opens. It will keep hitting the Next page until it's out of available tags.

Is this first draft something you'd like / use, or would you wait until the hard limit issue is solved?

I'm also working on: skipping Edit notifications entirely and possibly marking them as read too.

Does this work by logging into DW itself or just checks and does it for any dreamwidth account you have open?

TehMags: Whoever you're logged in as.

Hmm, I wonder how that works if someone is using a session manager then, since technically in that case you could be logged into multiple characters at once.

It fires on any Inbox page that opens with a page count, which is one work-around for the "keeps going" issue. You can start on page 3/5 and it'll only open pages 3, 4, and 5.

TehMags: It's a valid question! I've got it opening a new window, so I assume it's whatever DW thinks the default is from where you initiated the extension.

I've only tested it in conjunction with LJ Juggler.

okay, so that means that it won't open anything in a session manager most likely (or at least with SessionBox, the one I use)

Which I mean, not really that much of a problem, just a curious thing I thought of

I could test it out with SessionBox, see how it goes. I genuinely forgot about that one.

I can make it not open in a new window, it just seemed better considering it could open 50+ tags

Hmm.

i think i'd need a bit more info about what you mean by "inbox taggers", since people's exact practices wrt using emails to keep track of tags might differ!

Sorry I mean people who use the Dreamwidth Inbox.

....see, it's good i asked then. xD

For sure!

TehMags: And you were right, in its current state, it doesn't respect SessionBox sessions.

Seems like it would potentially overload a browser if people don’t delete their notifs regularly & it’s opening every comment reply/top level comment/new entry notif from every page of the inbox

It’s only the unreads!

It always starts on page of the DW Inbox’s unread section

Ohhh okay I misread that

does it run automatically when you open the inbox page or does it only run when you tell it to?

Now I still agree it could overload a browser, but failing to delete notifications wouldn’t be why.

Yeah, that makes sense. Ty for the clarification tho!

millennialfalcon: It runs anytime it sees the URL format ://.dreamwidth. org/inbox/?page=*&view=unread

so if you want to avoid it opening a bajillion tabs right away, you'll want to curate/mark read your inboxes before installing

Or you can start several pages back too

Like my personal one I never clean out had 133 pages and I started it on page 131 for testing

But yes if I release it as is, you’d want to curate first.

Or I could figure out how to do the hard limit before even releasing v1

i personally tag from the unread section of the inbox; i'm not sure if that's a useful data point

(Thank you everyone for your input so far!)

yaysunshine: It's useful if you find the process of opening tags redundant like I do!

it might be nice if it created a button you could click to open the tags, instead of doing it automatically? :|a i'm also a firefox person mostly but I use chrome sometimes

That's basically what it does, yeah. You can click the "Unread" section and it doesn't fire until you start navigating to page 2.

Whereas if you click the Extension button it opens in a view that will trigger it.

But if I can figure out the hard limit, that'll be a prompt that comes up anyway before the extension fires.

Would anyone be interested in trying it out in its current form? I can give you the unpacked version -- basically the raw files, not through the Chrome store.

ChickletLARP: I remember you talking about wanting something like this semi-recently in order to help track or organize your DW Inbox. Does this seem like something that you’d like to check out and/or help develop?

So, if it doesn't fire until you start navigating to page two... does that mean you have to trigger it through the extension view if you have less than 15 tags?

Yeah the idea was that it wouldn't trigger too easily by accident

Otherwise you kick it off by clicking the extension icon

yeah, just wanted to see if my assumption there was correct XD

No problem!

HECK YEAH!! I got the hard limit working.

aikonamika: Ty for thinking of me, still not fully sure follow what this is, though. If it just opens everything into separate tabs, that could be awesome. Or... could crash my computer. >.<

frudence: i almost exclusively tag via my dw inbox so i would love to test this!

I would be interested in testing this

I tag from my dw inbox since email notifs are wonky and also I have to use outlook (since my gmail doesn't recognize dw emails at all anymore)

unfortunately I use firefox for the most part, but this is an interesting idea

I think the one thing I would be concerned about is the potential for those tags it's auto-opened to get lost because I know I had an issue with Chrome for a while when I used it where I'd accidentally double-open the browser after it crashed or something like that, and that'd wipe out my tabs from the previous session

I mean it's not like it gets rid of the email, so there's that, but that's definitely a thing that could get me potentially forgetting my tags XD

not to say that this is a thing that would Need Fixing, if there even was a way, just a small thing I picked up thinking about my own tagging habits

sagesaria The good news is that the core of this code is written in javascript, so I might be able to port it to Firefox next.

ChickletLARP: Yes it does open everything in separate tabs, but now with an upper limit, you could open like 5 at a time!

spacewitchery: That was precisely what drove me to finally want to make this

That sounds really useful! And it opens everything that doesn't have a response yet, or...?

well anything Unread

And skips non-threaded notifications

Interesting. I'd give it a shot.

it's definitely a good idea!

Trying to figure out the best way to let you folks download this zip file to try it out

Oh google drive, duh

dwinboxopener.zip

Visit chrome://extensions and choose to install an "Unpacked" extension.

TehMags millennialfalcon ChickletLARP quadrille spacewitchery ^^^ Testable version

TY, will look into it when we get back fro the trash

installed! I'll check it out as soon as I switch characters

Well dang I definitely broke the skip functionality.

None of it even opens for me >.<

(Sorry, tech breaks if I so much as think about it)

I'll DM you

Alright, v1.0.1 dwinboxopener_v101.zip

omigosh this works EXACTLY like how i go through my dw inbox - i feel like this is already super helpful for me, thank you!!

Yay! =^^=

I am interested but I am also a firefox user

I promise if I iron out the kinks of this logic I'll look into making it work for Firefox!

Here we go again, v1.0.2 dwinboxopener_v102.zip

Chrome extensions SHOULD just work in Firefox

That would be EXCELLENT

Most of them did when I checked in on firefox again and this is << cool as heck Imma check this out rn.

The extension is awesome.

Thank you! I hope to return to working on ironing out more kinks with it soon!

It kept giving me a heart attack at first because it showed an empty inbox before it swapped to all are there, but marked as read, lol.

The only thing I actively don't like, honestly, I suspect is a browser thing ad not anything you have nay power over. (Every time it opens a new tab it pops that window to the front so I can't, say, check plurk while it is opening all my messages in another window)

Ah yeah that one is by design in order to get the tags open

I might be able to do it more in the background though

That’s the kind of finessing I want to iterate on

Right now I set it up then go play on my phone a while, lol