GM Script: Follow Comments you've made 0.6

Ric e Ette    says:

Are you a mind reader? I was about to try to make something just like that! :-) I'm gonna try this right away!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Ric e Ette    says:

Thanks, Mortimer! Seems to work fine here...

... but I still miss one feature that would be a huge improvement (IMHO): some way to filter out the comments by time.

Let's say you create a button labeled "Mark comments as read". That would save the timestamp of when the page was loaded to the browser, as a variable. Next time the script shows the comments, you could select a checkbox labeled "Show only new comments", that would filter out the previous comments using the previously saved timestamp.

Of course, if you can only use the textual description of the time (Added 64 minutes ago, Added 21 hours ago or 2 days ago), there will be a very low precision... but I think I could live with that. Of course, if there could be a better implementation through Flickr API, it would be even better. ;-)

What do you think? Is this possible? And if it is, could this be adapted to also work with the Photos from your friends page?
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

Thank you for testing Ricardo.

I am intending to add new features, in particular the one you mention. I have some ideas on how to do that.
The thing is I want to avoid as much as possible querying the API as it would slow even more the processing.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Pixel Wrangler    says:

Thanks, Mortimer, for this script!

Like Ric e Ette, I also found this timely -- just last night I went through my "comments left" and deleted many of them in order to escape the multitude of "big fave" comments left since my specific comment.

This, of course, is too bad (in general) for the member who has the photo as comments get deleted by others who are in a similar situation as me...

What I found in trying the script essentially echos the comments of Ric e Ette... the ideal scenario for me would be something along the lines of "mark comments as read" (similar to Usenet ;-)

A fall-back alternative that would work for me would be the option of "marking" a specific photo -- and all accompanying comments -- as "ignore". This would mean I wouldn't have to see them, but I also wouldn't have to eliminate (delete) my original comment either.

My primary objective in "checking in" on comments I've left is to see if the poster of the photo commented on, has any feedback or further comments relative to my comments.

There are some instances where I am interested in seeing and/or following what others have said, but that seems to be in the minority or cases. Given an "either/or choice", I would be willing to lose that "following" capability in order to eliminate the unimportant (to me) "big fave" comments...

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Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

Pixel Wrangler, I think you summarize very well the frustration of many users with that page.

I had already thought of this "ignore" feature and this is what I am currently implementing in fact ;)
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Ric e Ette    says:

Same here about the "ignore" option, Pixel Wrangler...
Mortimer, can't wait for the next version! ;-)
And BTW, I forgot to tell you that I'm glad to see those pics in the thumbnail... :-D
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Pixel Wrangler    says:

Ric e Ette commented:
I forgot to tell you that I'm glad to see those pics in the thumbnail...

Wow -- I hadn't even, consciously, noticed that the photos were in thumbnail version!! This is a BIG plus.


Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

Ok, the new version 0.2 introduces the "ignore" function discussed above.

Pixel Wrangler, the display is supposed to be exactly the same as the normal Flickr display. (except that curently the clever buddyicon menu is broken...)
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Ric e Ette    says:

Good job, mortimer! I like the fact that it's easy to see / undo the ignores! Thanks! :-)

And Pixel Wrangler, I said that I liked the thumbnails because they are from pictures on my photostream... ;-)
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Pixel Wrangler    says:

Mortimer, ver 0.2 is a keeper! :-)

Even though I read what Ric e Ette said about the "undo ignores" before I tried the new version, I didn't really appreciate it until I actually used the script!

I went through my comments and really "cleaned out" a ton of them -- and in doing so, felt, at times, some pangs of sentiment as I marked a few photos and comments "Ignore" -- knowing that I wouldn't see them again unless I went to the actual photo page.

When I was done, and got back to the top -- and realized that I could view my "ignores" -- well, I had a very happy feeling, to say the least.

Thanks for a great script! Great job.


@Ric e Ette
Thanks for your note about the thumbs ...
I "got it" ;-)

Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

SaraR~    says:

The ignore function is amazingly useful. One of the most useful hacks I have seen - a big THANK YOU, Pierre.

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Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Nameet says:

GOD BLESS YOU......

thanks a million :o)
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Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

I am glad you all like it :D
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

Ok, I hope your are following comments on that one ;)

version 0.3 is out. You can now:
- limit the display to comments posted after your last visit (load) of the "Follow Comment" page
- check a photo to be ignored directly on the photo page (under the comment box).
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Ric e Ette    says:

How could we not follow??? ;-)
I'll test it ASAP!

Edit: Fantastic job, my friend! I'm almost crying with happiness! Commentland, here I come! x-D
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Ric e Ette    says:

Mortimer, I saw a behavior a bit different from your description of the feature:

- limit the display to comments posted after your last visit (load) of the "Follow Comment" page

mortimer?    says:

Ric e Ette, I don't know if it's a bug in the documentation. At least it's not in the code :)

For coding simplicity, I intended it like that. The only thing I do is look at the first 10 pages of "Comment You've made", split each page in blocks which correspond to one photo and the comments shown in that page.
Then I annotate each block with the user_id (to know if it's from a contact), the photo_id (to know if you decided to ignore it) and the date of the last message in the block.

Then if a block is compatible with the current filter, then I display it. So I don't really look at the comments inside the block, I display the list of comments for each photo as Flickr would display it usually.

I could do some filtering on the date (and other criterion, like if it's a message from the author of the photo, from one of your contact, etc.) on each message inside the block, that could be an idea.
The only thing is that you'll loose all the context of a message, so if the new message is a reply in a discussion that started 2 months ago, you won't have the message to which the new message replies to...

Anyway, it won't cost too much to implement that. I'll try to do it for next version. Thank you for the feedback.

EDIT: I updated the description so it might be clearer.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Linda B (Wine Diva)    says:

This is absolutely brilliant!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Vieira says:

I found a rather strange bug, Mortimer. One (and only one) of the photos I have commented apperas duplicated, as seen below on the screenshot:



The only difference between this and the other comments is that I have added a note on that photo as well as the comment. Only the second duplicate shows the note, however.

Edit: Oops! It seems it's Flickr fault. I disabled your script and reloaded the page - the photo appears duplicated too: one dupe at the first page of comments and the other on the second page. Oddly enough, the note I have added does not appear.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

mscjwharton    says:

Another thought on this whole string. What if there was an option to mark the ones that you wanted to follow? Then choose to look at those marked only.


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Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

mscjwharton    says:

And I love being able to get rid of all those comments that I don't want to follow. Thanks

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Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Linda B (Wine Diva)    says:

I have noticed that some of the comments that I have marked as ignore keep coming back. AM I doing something wrong?
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Jonathon Brown says:

Anyone know if should work on FF 2.0B2? It looks awesome, but it seems to hang. After the progress bar goes from 1-10, I get the little spinning pink and blue balls below "with less than 10 answers since yours" and it just goes on forever. Just wondering if it because of me, B2, or maybe something else?
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

@Linda B, I've never had this problem, I don't know what could go wrong :(

@Jonathon Brown, I use FF 2.0b2... so it should work. It can hang sometime if there are too much comments to display. If you want, try to edit the script and change
var MAX_NUMBER_PAGE = 10;
to something smaller.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Jonathon Brown says:

Thanks, I cut it to MAX_NUMBER_PAGE down to 5 and that worked great!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Pixel Wrangler    says:

Mortimer,
I tried ver .3 an hour or less after you uploaded it.

It ran fine the very first time, then problems ... it took me awhile to get back here ... as I didn't know if it was my system acting up, or Flickr, etc., and I wanted to try to be sure what the issue was related to.

What's been happening is that when I select "comments" I see a quick "glimpse" of the "regular comments" page (the way it used to be without the script), followed by the "spinning pink and blue balls" as mentioned by Jonathan Brown (above). FYI, this "glimpse" lasts for perhaps .5 second.

Then hanging... hanging... hanging

When I finally get out of that, for as long as I am running firefox, I can "hear" activity on my hard disk -- even when the computer isn't running anything ... and eventually Firefox will stall/freeze ... and eventually I'll get the error notice that "a script has stopped running"... -- this will occur well after I have quit Flickr (and usually at the worst possible time ;-)

I finally had to uninstall ver .3 ... and make my way here :-)

I read the response above about limiting the number of pages to "less than 10" ... I can give that a try in a bit.

I'm using, FYI, Firefox v 1.5.0.7 -- the latest update to non-beta Firefox released last week -- and before I installed ver .3 of comment follow.

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I do like the improvements to ver .3 -- such as the ability to check a photo to be ignored directly on the photo page ... :-)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

aéroporc says:

Hello Mortimer and bravo again! I had the same bug Pixel_Wrangler describes above and also had to uninstall "comment follow"...
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

I am sorry to ear that. I think you can try the trick I mentionned before to diminish the processing requirements.

I'll try to sort out this problem this WE.

(by the way, I also use the script on a 1.5 on another computer without problems)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

... has left the building [deleted] says:

THANK YOU, THANK YOU,THANK YOU, for this script!

Oh man, I *needed* that ignore button!!!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

lynmar    says:

Thank you, again!!

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Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Mark & The Zebra    says:

Sorry for the numpty question but how do i edit the MAX_NUMBER_PAGE value?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

moonlit glow says:

cool! I'm going to try this one out for sure! yay. :D

thanks for sharing mortimer?

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Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

moonlit glow says:

yeah, that is cool! :D
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

waɪ.tiː says:

Hi! And thanks. I am sooo happy I added the screenshot as a fave!

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Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

SteelePop [deleted] says:

This appears to have stopped working. Is it just me?
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

Steele Pop I have a new version in testing that works fine but is very different from the old one.
You can get it here:
6v8.gamboni.org/IMG/js/flickrfollowcomments.u ser.js

It should work fine, but please let me know if you find bugs, I didn't have time to fully test it.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

SteelePop [deleted] says:

Thank you so much for doing this. It appears to work just fine. Your script has made my experience so much better that it was almost painful to use it without.

Thank you!

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Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Linda B (Wine Diva)    says:

mortimer?: How do I change the number of comments to be displayed on the page?
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

Linda B (Wine Diva) Currently, it gets the last 10 photos with new comments I think,

You can edit that by editing the script (tools>Greasemonkey>Manage ... Edit) and changing the value of
var PER_PAGE = 10;
at the top of the script.

The maximum value is 50. I think that if you go over 10, in the way script is implemented now, there might be problems displaying the user buddy icons. But the rest should work just fine ;)

As a general note, the method used to get the comments in this new version is limited by Flickr to one request per hour. So you won't be able to get interesting results more than once an hour (which is not so bad ;).
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Linda B (Wine Diva)    says:

Thanks, mortimer? !
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Balaji Dutt    says:

I think that Flickr has made some change (it isn't obvious what) to the recent comments page, which is breaking the Follow Comments script. This is what I get when I go to the recent comments page with the script active:



My PER_PAGE is set to 6 and I'm using FF 2.0.0.1 on Windows XP with GM 0.6.6.20061017.0 installed. I'm using v0.5 of the script.

Hope you can help me figure out what's wrong - my recent comments page is unusable without this script!

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Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

Balaji Dutt This has been fixed on Friday, you have to install the new version.

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Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Balaji Dutt    says:

mortimer?: Is there a more recent version that 0.5? That's the version available here. I uninstalled the version I had, installed the 0.5 version, restarted FF and checked my recent comments.. but still got the same error.

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Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

Yes, the version on 6v8 should be 0.6

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Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Ric e Ette    says:

Thanks for the fix! :-)

I'd suggest to update the title of this picture, too...
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Jonas Thomén    says:

THANK YOU!
I really needed this.. =)

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Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

...cathzilla    says:

ouaou..... You are a genius with scripts :)

I think that this one will be very useful !
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

...cathzilla    says:

Very useful.... but there's a bug...

All the comments are on one page now, but all the people's icons don't appear, after the initial first page of comments it seems.... :(
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

Thank you for the appreciation. I think this feature should be IN flickr... it would make my life easier :D

Flickr changed last holidays some stuff, and I had to make a new version of the script quickly, so it has a few limitations (bugs you said? :D):
1- it will only get the latest 50 photos with update,
2- it sometimes have problems creating all the icons.

I know about these two "bugs" but they are not very blocking to the use of the script, and as I don't have much time, they are not getting corrected quickly... but I'll look into it, eventually.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

squarefrog says:

Its nice, but its very unresponsive on my aging G4 iMac. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.1, GM 0.6.7.20070131.0. When I click on my comments it takes a minute or two to sort itself out, then clicking on one of the options means I have to wait another minute for the changes to happen.

I'll try it on one of my quicker Macs at home.

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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

Yes, it's kind of ugly as it has to put a lot of things in memory and then ask Firefox to display many things at one time. If you go to the ignore tab and you've been ignoring things since a few month like I do, it's really slow, even on a recent computer...

The thing is that I just don't have time to spend optimizing the script. I believe that flickr should really provide that service... and the code would be a lot easier for them as they have direct access to the DB.

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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

mortimer?    says:

if it's too slow, you can make it go a bit faster by limiting the number of messages it retrieves. Currently it will get 150 photos with a new message. Try editing the script and changing the value to something smaller, like 50.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

tashenka    says:

I have bookmarked it (faved) and will probably try it out because from what I've read in this thread, it's exactly what I want/need. So thank you in advance :-)

Uh.... come to think of it, now that I'm commenting, and the rate at which people seem to comment here, I will definitely need your script so I can ignore this thread :D ;-)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Kyle Kesselring    says:

You know how there is the script to highlight discussions. Is there something like that for comments so that not only can you click ignore, but have a box to click that brings that picture's comments up first when you go to recent comments?
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Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

BIGMON™    says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Screenshots, Gameshots, Wallpaper & Desktops, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.


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Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

honeyjazz ♥    says:

well, thus doesn't seem to work for me.
i've installed the script (firefox 2.03) but when i go to the page with comments i made then for a second the comments sho up and then a loading page appears.

and loads.
and loads.


ans looooooaads...
like forever or so. ;)

img513.imageshack.us/img513/8779/commentsae7. jpg

what can i do?




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Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )