I contribute to xkit rewritten (@addons!)
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main blog: @transienturl
fiction: @fictionalurl
guild wars 2: @gossamer-scraps
testing blogs: @transienttest / @transienttest2
adult content: [redacted]
github/ao3: marcustyphoon
discord: marcus
I contribute to xkit rewritten (@addons!)
they/???
main blog: @transienturl
fiction: @fictionalurl
guild wars 2: @gossamer-scraps
testing blogs: @transienttest / @transienttest2
adult content: [redacted]
github/ao3: marcustyphoon
discord: marcus
“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild…”
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progress report: I am half asleep 24 hours a day
Don’t miss a thing! New unread activity notifications
We’re making some changes to the activity view on web — starting with unread notifications that will be highlighted blue, as well as multi-colored labels to identify those who you’re closest with.
Why are we doing this?
You may have previously noticed that some activity items were highlighted, and some weren’t. What you may not know is why this was, and you’re not alone.
The previous, light blue highlighting indicated items that were from people you follow. Obvious, right? Well, no, not really. There are design patterns in interfaces that have become standardized from widespread usage to mean a certain thing. Highlighting notifications light blue is one of those that have come to mean “unseen” or “unread.” Which is what it will now mean here, too.
How do I know which are from people I follow?
Good news! We now have colorful labels to identify activity from people you follow. On top of that, we’ve created a new label called “Mutuals” to show people you follow and who follow you back so that you can keep track of those closest to you.
Before and after
More to come
This is the first of several improvements we are making to activity and notifications—so stay tuned for further updates as they come!
Feedback?
Why not let us know what you think in the replies? We’d love to hear from you.
me: one of the things we discovered during the “my pc is irreversibly broken” thing is that I had system restore off and apparently this is the default state?
me: so check if it’s on on your windows PCs
mom: Is that in the Control Panel somewhere?
me: kind of, yeah. if you click “system” in the control panel it goes to a tab in the new windows 10 settings app; the setting in question is accessible by clicking “system protection” on the right side of that page… which will open the “system properties” dialogue box from pre-windows-10
me: so it both is, and is not, both in the new windows settings and in the old windows settings, because accessing it requires one to bounce between one and the other
guys, gals, and nonbinary pals, I present: the windows operating system
still think it would have been really interesting to do the “let’s just translate the class names in the DOM” thing for xkit rewritten
wait that doesn’t actually work for mutations. never mind
would love if web extension popups could access page context
I mean I guess they can via messaging but like. that would be an incredible amount of complication for a QoL feature in an xkit script we are retiring
Object.fromEntries([[‘a’, 1], ['b’, 2], ['b’, 3]])
> {a: 1, b: 3}
This is what I figured what would happen, but I had to make sure.
spending 4 hours and counting unbreaking my windows installation was not how I was planning on spending my evening
this operating system is complete garbage and I really don't think there are many valid arguments to be made to the contrary
it was actually more than 5 hours and it is still completely broken, likely to the “unfixable without reinstalling clean because a repair install fails” level, so that’s nice
so glad that’s not my main computer
spending 4 hours and counting unbreaking my windows installation was not how I was planning on spending my evening
this operating system is complete garbage and I really don’t think there are many valid arguments to be made to the contrary