Flickr Hacks / Discuss

mortimer?    says:

Ok, I released version 0.2. Here is a screenshot:

Originally posted 69 months ago. (permalink)
mortimer? edited this topic 69 months ago.

यश says:

this scripis so indispensable!
Posted 68 months ago. (permalink)

Mark & The Zebra    says:

You can change the number of pages of comments parsed by changing the line:
var MAX_NUMBER_PAGE = 10;
in the file.

mortimer?    says:

Ok, you have to go to the menu Tools, then "Manage User Scripts", now select this script and click the edit... button.

This will open a text editor or prompt you for a text editor to open the file.
When the file is open, find the line at the beginning of the file with this MAX_NUMBER_PAGE = 10;
Experiment with different (lower) values, 5 works fine for me too, but it really depends on how much comments you post and how much reply to these there is, etc...
Posted 68 months ago. (permalink)

Mark & The Zebra    says:

Have tried that with all numbers and they all hang on the spinning balls except when i put in a 1, then it says 'nothing to see here'
Posted 68 months ago. (permalink)

mjyo says:

Mark - I encounter the same issue.
Originally posted 68 months ago. (permalink)
mjyo edited this topic 68 months ago.

mortimer?    says:

Is there any relevant message if you: 1- open tools>Error Console 2- clear the console 3- reload the page?
Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

I just realeased a version 0.4 that tells when it's unable to read on page of comments when there is faulty html in one of the comments on that page.
Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

meowy takes photos says:

I changed it from 10 to 4, it still hangs up at the two little Flickr-balls rotating. Loaded the page, cleared error box, and hit refresh on the page with nothing else open.


I get this one a lot if I click to load less than 10 replies, or click contacts only, friends, family, ignored.. it gives this error up in the box:

Error:
match has no properties
Source File:
Line: 323


I also got this error, but they're just popping up in the error box as it tries to cycle up I guess. Another popped up in the box as I type this up.

Error:
document.getElementsByTagName("P")[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[1] has no properties
Source File:
Line: 335
Source Code:
335

I'm using the latest FireFox and latest GreaseMonkey. Just installed both new again. Just updated the FollowComments script off the UserScripts.org site too.

It's just hanging there, no errors on the actual Flickr page though.
Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

userscript is quite "painful" to use, so I don't always update the script there, you should get it from its original place to get the latest version.

Anyway, I added a safeguard where this error occured, I hope it will be sufficient (I don't really know why this would happen), get verion 0.5 (from userscript or my website) and tell me if it persists.

The second error is not linked to this greasemonkey script but sure sounds like a greasemonkey script error ;)
Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

meowy takes photos says:

It works perfectly now thank you so much!

Yesterday I couldn't get your site to load but it loads great today =)

Thank you for the safeguard add, the script is great!
Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

Mark & The Zebra    says:

Works for me too!!

Thanks a lot!
Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

Apparently, there is something wrong with the old version of the script. However, a beta version is now availlable (same place as before) and it's working fine for me.
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

Kathy~    says:

okay, this week I am having big problems with this script.... it won't do comments you made anymore. and if you need to copy and paste an icon it won't put the icon on the box, just the code. I have tried this in a couple of groups.... Someone else complained also, and I told them if they have this script that might be the problem.

I can't live without comments you made tool
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

Kathy~    says:

maybe that is 2 different scripts but when I disable the follow comments script the icons work again.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled twice now, and restarted firefox both times, can't get it to work
Believe me I have made so many comments that every day I have pages, so that isn't the issue either
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

ElGeko says:

I have a big problem too, since 3 or 4 days, with this "follow comments" script.
It doesn't work anymore, each time, it gives me an empty page with the
"PAGES IGNORED": 01, 02, 03, etc... up to the end so in fact all pages are ignored!!!!

I don't get it. I'm on Firefox 2.01 (Mac) and the script is v.0.5.
It worked perfect before, and just like that, it stopped working!

Any idea someone, maybe?

Thanks in advance!
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

mscjwharton    says:

Mine stopped working too. I love this script. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

That's exactly what I said in my last message. Reinstall this script:
6v8.gamboni.org/IMG/js/flickrfollowcomments.user.js

I forgot to change the version number but it's a whole new script with its own new way of fetching the comments. And it seems to correct the problem with the old version.
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

mscjwharton    says:

Thanks, I just installed the new one and it seems oto be working.
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

ElGeko says:

Ha yes, it works!
Thanks a lot Mortimer? !
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

-= Hobo =-    says:

Pfiuuuu... I felt lost without it ^_^
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

ElGeko says:

Well, maybe I talked a little fast though... ;)

It works, indeed, but I just noticed that it always announces that there is only 11 comments behind mine, even if, in fact, there was 100's of comments behind.

Are you aware of this Mortimer?

Thanks in advance...
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

mscjwharton    says:

Also, I made over 30 comments in the last 2 days and only 9 are showing up. It seems to be missing tons and tons of my comments that I want to follow. I didn't exclude any of them.
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

I am going to look into that

The way of processing the comments has changed and is now only fetching the last 10 photos where there has been new activity. I do realize that's quite small, I have to change that.

You can already do it manually and go up to 50 by editing the script (open GM script management and click edit on the script) and changing:
var PER_PAGE = 10;

I'll try to make it so that it can fetch more that 50...
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

mscjwharton    says:

Hey thanks, I will go and do that!
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

Kathy~    says:

well I have tried to figure out how to edit it and I can't find where it says per page...
i uninstalled in and re installed hoping you fixed it on the script but it still only pulls a hand full--
can you change the actual script for simpletons like me who need it real easy
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

Ok, I changed the script on the server, so you can update it and it will get 50 photos...

BUT... with 50 photos, the script is a bit lost when it has to display the buddy icon, I know it, but I don't have time to fix it yet. The rest (the core feature) of the script works fine though.
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

Kathy~    says:

thank you thank you thankyou
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

Chatdurouge says:

Maybe my problem is the same as Kathy~. I just installed this one and I'm testing it out and there are only 8 comments. There aren't any page numbers at the bottom for me to click and see the other comments I've made. So is this what it's supposed to do? I'm a simpleton as well and I don't understand if it's working right or not. Thanks.
Posted 65 months ago. (permalink)

espressoDOM    says:

why is it that no matter what I do.. my comments I follow is only 1 PAGE long.... I have tried everything to see multiple pages of comments but for some reason even if I comment on 40 photos I still get 1 page of comments. PLEASE HELP... I love the script but its not working for me

Help me FIX this
Posted 64 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

This script does only display one page, it removes the pagination and this is normal.

Currently (I have to change the code a bit to get more and can't find time), on that unique page, it will get the latest 50 photos were a new message was posted and if they match the selected criterion display them.

So you shouldn't worry if you only see one page with a limited number of comments on it, it means that that's the only photos, in the 50 latest updated (I'll change the script to augment that limit) that match the display options.
Posted 64 months ago. (permalink)

Chatdurouge says:

Ok, I re-enabled it to test it again. I went through the page of 50 comments and ignored about 40 of them. Then when I went to reload it to get more comments to ignore...I got only 10 on my page and then this message...

This page cannot be updated more than once an hour due to restrictions from Flickr service. Next update will be possible after: 4 minute(s)

harry harris    says:

I think what mortimer? is saying is that it only gets the last 50 commented photos, then processes the ignores or whatever. So you will always be pulling from the last 50 comments whether ignored or not.. if you ignored all 50 you would get nothing (until a different pic was commented by someone and made it into the top 50).
Posted 64 months ago. (permalink)

Shemer says:

I have a question... The part I really like about this script is that I can mark to ignore certain photos - that's absolutely perfect. The rest I can manage on my own. Is there any way to have only that option on the script? If you can help me with that I'd really appreciate it. Thank you so much!
Posted 64 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

harry harris That's exactly it. In addition, there is a limit in Flickr API that I don't have the right to poll more than once an hour the server to get these 50 comments.
I'll change the script when I find time to be able to get more than 50 comments at a time (and fix that icons bug). But right now, I have too much work.

What do you mean by "the rest" Shemer?
Posted 64 months ago. (permalink)

Shemer says:

Thanks for the answer. "The rest" is filtering according to contacts, from last login, with no more than 10 comments after yours, etc. - all the other options available in the script.

Ok, here's the deal: this is one of the most valuable scripts out there in my opinion (and thank you so much for that!). You said that you want to improve it (the last 50 issue), but have no time, so I thought if there might be a simple option, that maybe even we (dumb layman) can change, so that we still have this feature, the most crucial one I think.

Am I being clear now? Not sure... =)
Posted 64 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

Ha, ok, I get it...

I don't really want to get too technical because it's gone be boring, all these filtering options are already implemented and it's not what is blocking me.

The script works likes that:
- it fetches the updates information from flickr
- it constructs a table from that
- then it can filter on that table.

Flickr serves me the updates information by pages of 50 (and don't want me to do that more than once an hour). So currently, I fill the table with the first page.
Fetching more pages is what I should do, and is not sooo difficult, but requires more than 2 lines of code in the script.
However, fetching more than 50 messages won't change how the filtering options work, so it won't ease anything to do a version without ;)

I hope this is clear, I'll really try to find five minutes to at least fix the 50 limit.
Posted 64 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

Ok, if I never finish my PhD, it will be your fault :-P

I updated the script to fetch more than one page. It's now configured to fetch 150 photos with updates. You can change that by editing the script and changing:
var FETCH_PHOTOS = 150;
to something else.

I haven't fixed the buddy icon bit, not the number of message before yours almost always showing 11... but you can live without that :D
Posted 64 months ago. (permalink)

Shemer says:

mortimer?: Thank you so much!!!

mortimer? wrote:

Ok, if I never finish my PhD, it will be your fault :-P

teaeff says:

erm, sorry, me again. has this script been affected by the flickr changes too?
hope your work goes well!
Posted 63 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

No, it works fine for me. Are you sure you have the latest version?
Posted 63 months ago. (permalink)

teaeff says:

hmm, yeah I seem to be. I have tried reinstalling it a few times, and just now tried updating to firefox2, but I am still having the same problem as with the group page enhancer: the spinning flickr logo comes up but nothing happens.
Can't think what it could be really, would be interested to know if anyone is having the same problem.
Posted 62 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

lack of patiente ? :-P
Posted 62 months ago. (permalink)

Pixel Wrangler says:

Several times over the past week or two, on an intermittent basis, the first page of comments start with those "1 week old".

When I refresh, I (usually) get the most recent comments (an hour old, for example). An added inconvenience with "refresh" is that I, of course, hit the "one hour server refresh limit".

Is this glitch of showing comments beginning with one week old a flickr thing? -- unique to me? ... or ?
Posted 57 months ago. (permalink)

apurdam (Andrew)    says:

Same for me. It has also been hanging. I've had to uninstall it, as it simply doesn't seem to work anymore. :-(
Shame. It was very useful (even more so having moved to a Core2 Duo machine - it used to have that terribly long delay while it thought about the world). I might try reinstalling it and see if it's happier.

Using FF 2.0.0.6
Can't tell which version of GreaseMonkey.
Follow comments 0.6
Originally posted 57 months ago. (permalink)
apurdam (Andrew) edited this topic 57 months ago.

R°sie says:

I have it and it is fine. Makes following comments so much easier.
Posted 57 months ago. (permalink)

Pixel Wrangler says:

Just a note to report I'm still having the same problem mentioned -- three posts "up" from this ... it's too bad as this is such a valuable and useful tool ! (BTW, this problem is no longer "intermittent", but constant.)

I would love to be able to use Follow Comment without this glitch of starting with comments from one week ago.

---
FYI, I'm using:
Vista
Firefox 2.0.0.7
Greasemonkey 0.7.20070607.0
Flickr Refer Comment
Flickr Follow Comments
Flickr Photo Magnifier
Flickr Easy Photo Post
Flickr Style Contacts
Flickr Image Src Exposer
flickrPM
Flickr Rich Edit
Flickr Buddy Icon Reply
nKflickrPuzzle

plus various Firefox Extensions and Plugins
Posted 57 months ago. (permalink)

∗justin says:

this happens to me too. So I've stopped using the script. A shame.
Posted 57 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

Pixel Wrangler, Phojux and everyone else, I am very sorry. I am getting to the end of my Ph.D. thesis and have no more time to get into the scripts and follow Flickr modification. This is a very complex hack and would require some time to get it to work properly.

The code is GPL and everyone can help me make it better if you feel like trying, the code is shared on a repository, just contact me by flickr mail if you would like an access.

Perhaps you could all petition Flickr so they get me on their staff next year so I have the funding to implement these highly required features (ROFL)
Posted 57 months ago. (permalink)

Pixel Wrangler says:

Go Figure!

As of today, this script is working perfectly -- as it used to ... no more "beginning with comments left "1 week ago".

There's a very long "back story" (that I just edited out ;-) about how I "stumbled" on to this... I've been experiencing some very weird intermittent scrolling spasms with Firefox ... and in trying to isolate that problem I disabled Greasemonkey ... and did a bunch of other things (still don't have an "answer" to the scrolling spasms).

In any event ... for those of you who have also experienced the same problem with the Follow Comments you've made script, you could try doing what I did (with all the non-flickr related steps edited out ;-)

1. Disable Greasemonkey (don't uninstall).
2. Close browser and reopen.
3. Go to flickr, click on "Comments You've Made".
4. Go to your flickr homepage.
5. Enable Greasemonkey
6. Refresh page (flickr homepage)
7. Click on "Comments You've Made" ...

-- and see if that works for you.
Posted 57 months ago. (permalink)

∗justin says:

I'll give it a go...
Posted 56 months ago. (permalink)

Pixel Wrangler says:

Update --

I updated Firefox with ver 2.0.0.8, and, as of today, I experienced the same problems mentioned above (viewing comments beginning 5-7 days ago).

The "good news" ... I went through the procedure in my last post (about disabling Greasemonkey, etc.) ... and the script continues to work as it's supposed to.

I'm not a tech person, so I haven't a clue as to why this works the way it does, but I thought I'd post the information for any whose mileage doesn't vary ;-)
Posted 56 months ago. (permalink)

mortimer?    says:

Well, I don't have time to investigate in that, but I don't have anything obvious poping out of my head when reading your procedure :(
Posted 56 months ago. (permalink)

soulspin    says:

I was thinking of this script so I looked for it to install on my new machine. I have the latest FireFox and the latest script and it is not working. When I click on "comments you've made" it flashes the first page of comments quickly and then the Flickr blue and pink dots appear and dance with each other. And that's it. I've waited over 10 minutes. Darn.
Posted 56 months ago. (permalink)

Chris Gin    says:

Hi,

Is there any way to configure this script to only show comments by you and the owner of the photo?

Most times I just want to see replies to my comments by the person who uploaded the photo.

Thanks,
Chris
Posted 54 months ago. (permalink)

TomBrooklyn    says:

does this still work with the recent flickr page makeover?
Posted 19 months ago. (permalink)