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Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position

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Post by Am4TIfIsER0ppos » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 5:14 PM UTC

patcon wrote: post #12

atticora wrote: post #4

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Hey that works! Thanks!

Shift+click or Ctrl+click works if someone doesn't have a middle button (I forget the exact combo bc it's just in muscle memory from daily use)

Usually: shift is a new window and control is a new tab.

Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position

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Post by akkartik » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 5:21 PM UTC

The good: building an app to scratch your itch.

The bad: using Twitter and Chrome in 2024.

I'll see myself out.

Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position

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Post by ack_inc » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

tomashubelbauer wrote: post #18

ack_inc wrote: post #16

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Twitter loses your scroll position when you go from a Tweet thread to a reply thread, then come back. This is what the extension fixes. Twitter does keep your scroll position when you go from a "top-level" view ("For you", "Following", ...) to a Tweet thread, then come back.

I cannot reproduce this, but I don't doubt it happens for other users. Guess I am in the lucky bucket. Maybe Firefox users get an older version without some new "improvements". :) Edit: Nevermind, it happens to me as well, I just never noticed.

How interesting. I experience this problem on both Chrome and Firefox (v121.0.1 on Ubuntu 22.04).

I am mildly curious about why only a subset of Firefox users are experiencing this. Do you mind sharing your Firefox version and OS?

Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position

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Post by tomashubelbauer » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

ack_inc wrote: post #23

tomashubelbauer wrote: post #18

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I cannot reproduce this, but I don't doubt it happens for other users. Guess I am in the lucky bucket. Maybe Firefox users get an older version without some new "improvements". :) Edit: Nevermind, it happens to me as well, I just never noticed.

How interesting. I experience this problem on both Chrome and Firefox (v121.0.1 on Ubuntu 22.04). I am mildly curious about why only a subset of Firefox users are experiencing this. Do you mind sharing your Firefox version and OS?

I went to do a sanity check using your steps and unfortunately I missed the problem the first time around - when I go to a tweet thread, then a reply thread, then come back to the tweet thread, it is indeed scrolled all the way up to the top. So I was wrong, I am affected by the same issue, I just never realized it until I went looking for it. One positive I'm taking away from this is the realization that I use Twitter less intensively than I thought, because I wouldn't have noticed this without the explicit steps I don't think. :D

Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position

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Post by pseidemann » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 6:08 PM UTC

patcon wrote: post #12

atticora wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey that works! Thanks!

Shift+click or Ctrl+click works if someone doesn't have a middle button (I forget the exact combo bc it's just in muscle memory from daily use)

for mac:

cmd+click: new tab in the background

cmd+shift+click: new tab and focus that new tab

Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position

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Post by bl4kers » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 9:10 PM UTC

Hope this was a good exercise in extension building because I don't think its advisable to work on personal projects involving Twitter at this point

Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position

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Post by maxlin » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 9:40 PM UTC

Nice. Instant download.

EDIT: the flash is a bit extreme on dark mode, and hides the text. Would be good to make this just a light alpha overlay which fades the same way, or / and ability to just turn the flash off

Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position

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Post by icciwnq » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 1:52 AM UTC

Cool, you created an extension for browsing a hate speech-promoting platform, good for you.

Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position

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Post by ack_inc » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 6:38 AM UTC

hnrodey wrote: post #17

I just developed a Chrome extension using a content script, very similar to this extension. Extension author, question: What was your process for getting updates from the content.js script loaded into the browser for testing? Was it reloading the extension through chrome://extensions? The only thing I found that could work was changing the content script and reloading the extension through chrome://extensions. I didn…

You're right. I had to reload the extension, then reload the page to get my content script changes injected into it.

Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position

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Post by ack_inc » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 6:42 AM UTC

maxlin wrote: post #27

Nice. Instant download. EDIT: the flash is a bit extreme on dark mode, and hides the text. Would be good to make this just a light alpha overlay which fades the same way, or / and ability to just turn the flash off

Hah, didn't even know Twitter had a dark mode.

I've updated the extension to use a dark-mode-friendly highlight color when appropriate. The update should pass the web store review process in a couple days (hopefully).