Sidebar Answer Status

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Description:

As of 1.10 this now also works in Firefox / Greasemonkey.

This is a userscript that modifies the Linked and Related sidebar lists to show answered status and other info:

Download:

• Github
• Github raw

Features:

• Draws border around "answered" questions (questions with an accepted answer or an answer with a score > 0).
• Italicizes titles of questions with no answers (can be different than "unanswered").
• Changes score box tool-tip to show answer status, answer count, and question up/down vote count (even if you don't have the privilege).
• Caches sidebar status (30 minute expiration time by default) to try and reduce API calls (especially effective when re-visiting the same post).

Console Usage:

The SidebarAnswerStatus object provides a console interface to certain settings and functions:

• SidebarAnswerStatus.setCacheExpireSeconds(integer) - Change cache expiration time. Default is 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
• SidebarAnswerStatus.resetStats() - Reset statistics.
• SidebarAnswerStatus.resetAll() - Reset everything (stats, cache, options including expiration time, etc.).
• SidebarAnswerStatus.dumpInfo() - Print all stored data, for debugging.

Issues:

• API key not implemented, so uses your per-IP API quota of 300.

Change Log:

• 1.10

  • Now works in Firefox / Greasemonkey.

• 1.09

  • New console interface.
  • Ability to reset stats through console.
  • Ability to set cache expiration time through console.

• 1.08 (+, +, +)

  • Warning banners now displayed when API quota is low (threshold 50 for warning, 10 for error banner).
  • Error messages now displayed in banner.
  • window.sidebarAnswerStatusInfo() for testing.

• 1.06

  • Cleaned up stats tracking.
  • Fix border color to work on all sites.
  • Italicize text of questions with 0 answers.
  • Up/down vote counts showed on tooltips.
  • window.sidebarAnswerStatusReset() for testing.
• 1.04
  • Per-site cache (oops).
• 1.03
  • Cache results to try to reduce API calls.
  • Fixed a typo in quota warning.
• 1.02
  • Fixed incomplete / crappy match rules.
• 1.01
  • API page size set to 100.
  • Fixed incorrect behavior when same question appeared in both "linked" and "related" lists.
  • Don't attempt query if no links found (e.g. on /questions/linked/*).
  • Low quota warning (< 100) in console.
• 1.00
  • Initial version.

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