chutils - utilities for cohost!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chutils/

IMPORTANT NOTICE: This extension is currently being developed exclusively for Firefox (>= v121.0) and its development builds

chutils is a web extension for cohost that adds custom informative, cosmetic, and quality-of-life features to improve the site's default layout and user experience.

Features

Horizontal navigation

Pins the navigation controls to the top of the window for ease of access; no more scrolling to the top of the page to access your inbox!

Follower page tweaks

See your follower count or load your entire list of followers at once.

Fix comment counts

Fixes incorrect comment numbers on posts.

Show comments under posts

Displays an expandable comment section under posts on the timeline; no need to click off the page to read or reply to comments!

Collapse comments

Adds a button to collapse comment trees.

Open notifications in popover view

Changes the default behaviour of the notification page button to instead show a notification feed popup without navigating to the notification page.

Quick rechost

Reshare posts in a single click, with the ability to add tags and content or share as a page other than the one you're currently active as. Simply hover over the reshare button on a device with mouse input, or tap and hold it on a device with touch input.

Show page info

Hovering over or long pressing on a handle or display name will display a popup showing that page's avatar, header image, title, pronouns, url, and optionally, its description.

Scrolling avatars

Makes the floating avatars scroll alongside the posts they're attached to.

Display post source code

View the source markdown for posts, complete with tokenized syntax highlighting and multiple colour scheme options

Yinglet translation

Converts the zh phoneme in yinglet-ified text to the usual th phoneme. Can optionally run in reverse.

Mobile quick navigation

Adds a horizontal footer menu with up to 6 navigation icons.

Quick search

Displays a popover search menu when clicking the navigation search button.

Custom timestamps

Formats timestamps with a user-supplied luxon.DateTime preset (e.g. DATETIME_MED) or Intl.DateTimeFormat constructor options. See the luxon documentation and Intl.DateTimeFormat documentation for more info.

Post filtering

Control what posts you see on your dashboard. You can filter out your own post, duplicate posts, or posts containing any user-suppied keywords, tags, or CWs.

Keyboard shortcuts

Adds keyboard shortcuts for navigation and interaction.

Post previews

Display a live preview of the post you're writing alongside the editor.

Building the extension locally

• Download and install Node.js and npm
• Install the project dependancies using npm install

The extension can then be built with npm run build and installed using the "install add-on from file" option on the about:addons page.