Hey all, I made a Firefox extension (signed by Mozilla) specifically to add Show/Hide Child Comments functionality similar to how RES had it (where the parent comment is still visible).
It’s not very useful, but I could use some feedback on tightening up the Javascript. I’m not a JS beginner, but I know I can do better, so any tips are welcome!
EDIT: Also, if anyone has any suggestions for the extension, I’m open to those as well.
I thought that the idea of just explaining to instance hosters that they can start user-like scripts on every page might be a good enough plugin system for LemmyUI until there’s more effort into a real plugin system. Users don’t have to install extensions, and people running instances can make decisions for improving the UI.
With a centralized services like reddit, this doesn’t work very well. Though the fediverse allows lots of customizations when it’s related to themes.