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Stack Overflow Extras: a userscript for the Stack Exchange websites to add a bunch of optional toggle-able features
http://stackapps.com/q/6091/
MIT License
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Discovered nice unmentioned feature: "Join internal structures" #458

Closed KoolKeith closed 4 years ago

KoolKeith commented 4 years ago

Hi. Actually this was the only thing I was looking for, and SOX does it! When saving a thread with Wallabag (with the Addon Wallbagger), everything gets saved, all posts ! TYVM

PS: If somebody wants to reproduce (see for yourself), be aware that Wallabag needs quite a bit of time to setup locally. PPS: Could we have a custum date format inputbox? For all of Europe its 19.01.20 today :)

Features Enabled

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shu8 commented 4 years ago

Hi there! Sorry if I've misunderstood your post, but I don't think SOX should be doing anything extra for any other extensions to work! Please could you clarify what you mean? :)

KoolKeith commented 4 years ago

Hi. There are many tools which first prepare (simplify) and then let you read or store web pages in a clean, raw manner. Live webpages are often super bloated with CSS, JS, and deeply nested divs. I guess web developer etiquette should do the opposite (using modern tags like <article>). Well, they don't. Some examples for the counter-measure tools and webservices are Pocket, Instapaper, printfriendly.com and 100 more.

One of those is wallabag. But it has problems on almost all Forum-Like-Pages. It cannot determine which is the main area of interest. So it often saves nothing, or just the first post, at best. And SOX - magically - changes something in the DOM - willingly or by accident - so that wallabag can now indeed recognize and harvest the whole page. Every post mashed together in one super block! And that's totally cool.

So obviously, on your side, this "just happened" as a side effect. It's beneficial to many many people, using many different tools. I will gladly report back, whenever this mysterious undocumented feature (definitely not a bug) disappears in a future SOX update :)