Force List Theme

[shawnericksen]

From looking around on AL, the default behavior for lists when visiting any profile is to use the theme determined by the owner of the profile (not necessarily able to reduce load times by switching to compact list). I'm interested if an option forcing lists to use a specific theme could be added to Automail.

I would certainly be open to help with this if it could be added.

[hohMiyazawa]

The script would only be able to intervene a bit too late in the process, and isn't able to stop native Anilist from doing its thing.

So:

• Anilist is going to send the same API call regardless
• Anilist is going to begin rendering the first part of the list.

What the script would do is essentially click the theme switch button, as soon as it shows up. This still has some positives:

• It stops cover images from being loaded (at least, if the script is quick enough)
• It makes the DOM elements a bit less memory hungry (since compact is simpler)

Would a setting named "Show compact list view by default" be what you need, automatically selecting the compact theme as fast as it can?

[shawnericksen]

I see, thank you. It's unfortunate that it can't modify the API call, but I think it's still a good feature to have. A "Show compact list view by default" setting would be nice for my use case, although a dropdown could also keep it flexible.