Steemit More Info 1.4 - Chrome Extension + Firefox Extension
A simple Steemit extension that shows more info on steemit.com
If you use steemit.com, you may have notice that it is lacking a lot of functionalities.
That's why you need to use tools like https://steemd.com/, https://steemdb.com/, https://steemstats.com/, https://www.steemnow.com/, ...
A lot of tools!
So why another tool???
Because this is a Chrome and Firefox extension that you install on your browser, and then all the informations you need will be available to you directly on steemit.com!
Please take into consideration that this is a new project that I just started, and the features are limited to just a few so far! I'm planning to add more and more features in the next versions. Every suggestion and idea is very much appreciated!
This is version 1.4 with some bug fixes and a few 
features added
Features
In the profile page of any account, you will see a Vote Power indicator on top (next to the name and the reputation), with the reward that a 100% vote from that user will give in SBD ($)
In the profile page of any account, you will see the number of votes that user has done today
- A new tab 'Votes' is added, where you may see the latest upvotes done or received by that user.
It shows the estimate of the votes in $ too!
You can filter the votes between incoming votes and outgoing votes
Added a dropdown menu with links to external tools to get more info about the steem account. Please let me know what tools you'd like to see here ;)
When you click upvote and the Vote Weight slider appears, not only you see the percentage of the vote, but you also see the amount in $ that upvote will be valued
- For downvotes, it shows also the total reward of the post after your downvote
- When you are looking at a post or comment and you click "votes" to see the list of people that voted that post, you now also see what was their contribute to the total reward!
- You can see the posts with two different layouts: list (default) and grid! You can change to grid layout using on the buttons on the top-right corner of the page.
On the blog page of an user, you now see an histogram of the posts of that user based on the creation date. You can scroll horizontally to go back in time.
Posts made by the user are shown in blue, reposts in green!
By clicking on one of the bars, you can open the list of posts made on one specific date. This makes it easier to look at old posts of an user!
You can choose to show the histogram automatically on page load (default) or if you prefer to load the histogram on request if you find it to be too invasive. To change this setting, hover on the histogram title and select "On load: hidden"
The followers and following pages have been updated to show a table of the followers/following, with more informations (Reputation, STEEM Power, Upvote Worth). You can sort by the different attributes by clicking on the table's column.
When you read a post, now there is a floating bar with the tags, date, author and upvotes of the post, so you can easily access this informations and upvote the post if you like it!
If you prefer a less intrusive way, in the setting you can choose the small floating bar layout
The markdown editor used to write new posts now shows the preview at the right side of the editor. While you write the post, if you scroll through your textual content, the preview will automatically scroll to the right point. This feature is available for screens with at least 900px width
If you want to better see the avatar of an account, just hover on the user picture to open a bigger version of the avatar image
GIF Picker for your posts and comments! You can search by keywords or see the trending gifs of the moment. Powered by Giphy
Boost your posts easily with the Boost button next to the "Promote" button. You will be able to easily transfer SBD to @minnowbooster for an upvote of the whale!
You will be prompted with a confirmation form where you will see the estimated worth of the upvote you will receive. No more copy and paste of the url in the memo field of the transfer and risks of sending a wrong transaction
Special thanks to @reggaemuffin and the @minnowbooster team for the support in making this feature possible!
- Filter wallet history by selecting the type (transfers, power up/down, rewards, conversions), minimum amount, or by textual search.
You can now click on a link or mention in the transaction memo field!
- You can open a gallery of images in a post by clicking on an image.
Steemit More Info Settings. You can now choose to enable or disable each of the features provided by Steemit More Info! Just go in your account settings.
Future development
I'm planning to add more features like:
- COMING SOON: Trending of up to 5 favorite tags in one page. You select your favorite tags and you'll see the list of the top trending of all the tags combined in one list. I'm not releasing this feature yet because it still has some bugs.
- Notifications, for instance if somebody replies on one of your posts or comments, if you get an upvote, ...
- A page with some graphs of the stats of the account
- Image resizing in the post editor
- Better search
- ...
Privacy and security - Do I steal your data?
I do not access your private keys. The only way I could do it, is if you go to your wallet page and click on "show private key". But I don't do it!
Should you trust me? Well, I believe is better not to trust anyone. That's why the source code of the extension is available on github and you can (and you are encourage to) look and study it!
The way it works is by scraping the webpage and the url of the page you are looking at to extract your username and the username of the user you are looking at. Then it uses steem-js to get informations about that user.
This process doesn't involve any private key! In fact, you can see informations of other users as well, even if you obbiuvsly don't know their private keys.
Installation
The extension is now available on the Chrome Extension Store
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/steemit-more-info/dcbpmclnlapbkgkddhencielibcjogcf
The extension is now available on the Firefox Extension Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/steemit-more-info/
You can now have these features on mobile as well! Look here for more information:
SteemApp - Android (iOS coming soon)
https://steemit.com/steemdev/@armandocat/steemapp-1-1-android-beta
If you prefer, you can choose to install it yourself manually:
- Download and unzip the extension. LINK: https://github.com/armandocat/steemit-more-info/archive/master.zip
- If you are using Chrome
- Open the Chrome Extentions page by typing
chrome://extensionsin your Chrome Browser. - Drag and drop the root folder of the project you just unzipped (steemit-more-info) inside the chrome extension page.
- Open the Chrome Extentions page by typing
- If you are using Firefox
- Open
about:debuggingin Firefox, click "Load Temporary Add-on" and select any file in the extension's directory. - You will need to do this each time you close and reopen Firefox
- Open
- Go to Steemit!
When a new version of the extension is available, a popup in the top right corner of the page will appear with a link where you can read about the update and download the new version.
Manually Force Google Chrome to Update Extensions
- Head to chrome://extensions by either right-clicking on an extension and choosing Manage extensions, or just typing it into the location bar.
- Check the Developer mode box on the right-hand side.
- Click the "Update extensions now" button.
Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/64525/how-to-manually-force-google-chrome-to-update-extensions/
Bugs and new features requests
Please feel free to comment here or contact me on steemit.chat if you have suggestions or features requests!
Please help me spread the word by resteem and upvote this post!
I'm doing this project in my free time. The more interest I get from the community, the more I'll be devoted to improve it!
So if you like this project, help me in letting everyone know about it.
And follow me! I will post any update on this extension and other projects I'll work on! And you will also see some beautiful picture about myself 😹🐾
Thanks!
In future update posts could you please only include the
features instead of copy pasting the whole thing every time. That's gonna get pretty spammy and massive at the rate you've been adding features.
I really do appreciate what you've been doing here, I just wish these features would be accepted into the condensor repo directly.
I coded a patch for the vote strength % in the dropdowns 5 months ago now, it was rejected despite community support and now here we are installing 3rd party overlays into a site that handles money to get that feature back again...
The reason for copy/pasting all the features is that the number of users of my extension is limited, and I want to show all the feature for new users that don't know yet what the extension is capable of.
However, I see that the post is becoming every time more crowded, so you are right that a solution is needed to keep it shorter.
Maybe I'll work on a website where I show a list of the feature and I'll provide only the updates here on steemit!
I was contacted by @sneak that told me that if I wanted to make some of the changes available in
condenserI was welcome to submit pull requests.Then, he continued by saying that before I do that, I should contact their designer to check that the UI is acceptable, otherwise I would risk to waste my time since they would not accept my requests.
That's why I decided I was not going to touch the condenser code.. In my opinion, the cost for a user to download an extension is far less then the cost it will need for me to learn react, apply my changes, submit pull request, and maybe they will not even get accepted (He told me most of the feature are too advanced and not useful for the majority of people).
Your experience tells me that my decision was right.
I see that the number of people using my extension is growing day by day, and that means in my opinion that the features I'm adding are needed and
condensershould at least add them with the ability to turn them on in the settings (like I'm doing)In the meantime, I'm going to keep doing what I can here, this is the fastest way I know to send more feature out to the users
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@armandocat i now you havent been online lately but i loved your chrome extension and would love to incorporate 90% of the features in my UI build SugarSteem. Can you get on discord and find me. Id love to have you work with me to build out my UI and together we can really kick some ass here. Please let me know.
Maybe you can use some kind of spoiler code to hide things in the Post? Not sure if it works here. Just an idea. ;)
I just update the extension. I changed the layout of the post putting the new features on top of the list so it easier to find out what changed!
I decided to keep all of them though, because I still see a lot of people downloading for the first time, so it is important to show all the features, I think. 😼
I use this extension @armandocat and I gotta say... it's awesome. Just down right awesome. A tip of the hat I am not wearing and don't even own to you good sir. Keep up the awesome developments. I am shocked how much added functionality you have coded into the site through just this extension.
I love this extension so much, @armandocat, that I'm including a permanent link to it in the signature of my posts.
The histogram feature is probably my favorite of them all, but I love the upgrade to it. Easily being able to search a user's post history is exactly the kind of upgrade I hoped would happen for that feature.
I love the floating bar. It's genius. I just wanted to say that. And the side-preview in the markdown editor is awesome. I use Atom to compose my posts, and I make use of the Markdown Preview package all of the time so I can get that side-preview while drafting. It's so helpful. Thank you for adding this.
I love the new features, and I can't wait to give them a try (especially the photo gallery and the GIPHY functions).
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Update: I do have a feature request - would it be possible in a future update to extend the histogram feature to the replies, comments, and votes? That would be amazing.
How amazing!! Really appreciate, that you managed to make the app for the Android as well. I will definitely download it today before I'll go to bed. Looking forward to all the updates!
Thanks for the continued work on this, @armandocat! This really makes steemit better, and yes, I will continue to say that with each further update.
The gallery lightbox is such an overdue feature on steemit. Thanks for making that happen!!!
An idea.
Considering you have a gif picker, maybe you could also integrate unsplash royalty free image search?
Im new, so this post was really helpfull!
Are you still developing this?
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Thank you... saved some eyeballs some filtering. @ironshield
GENIUS.
This is really cool. Have you thought of submitting pull requests to the condenser GitHub repository, so that the features are integrated into the actual website?