Questions tagged [posts]

"Posts" covers both questions and answers. (And perhaps wiki pages) For example, you may use this tag for apps that help with general editing.

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Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions

First there was Natty - looking for new answers to old questions that aren't actually answers, and posting them in a chatroom. Then there was Sentinel. Sentinel is the web dashboard for Natty. The ...
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Stack Exchange References

Stack Exchange References What is it? Stack Exchange References is a userscript for easily putting in references in answers and questions. Description In the top bar of any answer or question on SE,...
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Bonfire - dashboard for FireAlarm detecting low-quality questions

FireAlarm is a chatbot detecting low-quality questions. Bonfire is a web-dashboard written using Ruby on Rails, made specifically for FireAlarm. Upon low quality post detection, FireAlarm sends all ...
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Show a warning message when you follow a link to a deleted answer or comment

About: When you follow a link to a comment or answer you might end-up being confused if the answer or comment is removed. This little userscript shows a warning on top of the page when the link you ...
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Show revision diff color toggle

Sparked by this feature request on meta.SO, I created a quick user script that offers a toggle to show or hide diff colors. Look at the following screenshot to see it in action. The upper view is how ...
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sostats - Stack Overflow latest metrics and charts

About I wondered how many questions, answers or comments are being posted on Stack Overflow every day. How many users get registered? How does it depend on the day of the week? When are users most ...
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PPCG Sandbox Viewer

Screenshots GIF of the viewer: How the button looks: The Viewer: About This is a userscript for the Programming Puzzles & Code Golf sandbox. It shows you your currently sandboxed posts. It's ...
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Stack Exchange Post Watcher - Firefox & Chrome extension to watch posts for any changes

Stack Exchange Post Watcher Watching posts for changes is an extremely heavily requested feature on Stack Exchange (see 1, 2, 3). This extension adds a 'watch' button to the actions under every post ...
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Magic Answer References - a userscript for making proper post referencing easier

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Referencing other posts properly by hand is tedious: one has to link to users' profiles as usernames are subject to change any time, as well as to their post. Magic ...
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View up and down votes, for everybody

About: This userscript lets everybody view the up and down vote counts on a question or answer -- whether or not they have the "Established User" privilege. It replaces Rob W's old script, which was ...
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Show/Hide spoilers on any question (and its answers)

About: Inspired by this feature request on Meta Science Fiction & Fantasy, this script adds a checkbox to the "question info" sidebar block on each question to allow toggling all spoiler blocks ...
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Export a question and its answers as LaTeX

A post on a MathJax-enabled SE site is typically a mix of LaTeX-like syntax and HTML and/or Markdown. Consequently, the source of a post cannot be processed by a LaTeX compiler as is, despite the ...
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View full image sizes on click

Inspired by a meta question, here's a script that makes every image in a post also open itself at full size in a new window/tab when clicked. It will ignore any images already manually linked. ...
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Following Overcharged - Various improvements to the "follow" feature

Screenshot About Following Overcharged (inspired by a MSE feature request) is a userscript that provides a set of features improving the "follow" feature. Current version includes: Feature ...
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Userscripts Configurer - One script to configure them all

Screenshot About UserScripts Configurer is a shared configuration controller for UserScripters' userscripts. How to use Configurer is exposed as a global accessible via UserScripters.Userscripts....
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Three Columns - Displays the question page, post textarea, and post preview in side-by-side columns

Three Columns ( install ) (github) This is a userscript which allows those with reasonably wide monitors to make the most of their screen real-estate when posting, by making the question, ...
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Post Box Highlighter - Highlight a post box background

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Post Box Highlighter adds a "highlight" button to every post's action menu that allows one to temprorarily highlight the background of the target post. ...
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Stack Snippet Lag Fixer

About Inspired by this question on SO Meta. Sometimes, when posting or editing posts with one or more Stack Snippets, the editor requires a lot of resources to continuously re-render the post preview. ...
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Reading time for each post

Some Question and Answers can get lengthy and you only know when you're going to spend too much time once you're half way. This userscript will add the approximate reading time at the top of each ...
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Regional 12-hour timestamps

This script is a modification of Kip's "Display absolute timestamps (in local time)"; I have his permission to post this. Most of the credit for the script goes to him. About This script ...
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StackApp NNTP bridge for accessing Stack Exchange sites (like Stack Overflow)

Screenshot About With this NNTP Bridge you can follow all posts of Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites) very easily. Each question will be shown as one thread with all tags, the ...
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Code Pen, auto-submission Bookmarklet

CodePen is a new site like our beloved jsFiddle. I like it for two reasons. Zen Coding It has an API So, with the latter I created a bookmarklet. It guestimates what each block of code is (HTML, ...
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A userscript to disable the auto-scrolling when clicking on the preview area of SE editor

About This userscript addresses the issue described in detail in this Meta.SE post. After this userscript is installed, the auto-scrolling behavior of the SE editor will be completely disabled (not ...
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How do I derive the parent question from an answer in the /posts call?

So, I'm parsing every post - question or answer - for a concordance that I am building. (If you're interested, you can see where I am at http://seconcordance.cloudapp.net. Don't worry - full ...
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Convert your Stack Exchange Posts to your own Website

Using the tools in this website you can take all your Stack Exchange Posts in SE Markdown Format and convert them to GitHub Pages Jekyll Kramdown format. The website is targeted to high-rep Stack ...
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A way to copy text on this forum to preserve math symbols?

Is there any way to copy html-text containing Mathjax symbols from this forum's threads and paste it into a word processor (I use Libre office Writer) to preserve nicely looking math symbols? The ...
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Timestamps with a day

Another script inspired by a meta question, this will prepend an abbreviated day name to all mouseover UTC timestamps. This script requires Greasemonkey on Firefox and Tampermonkey on Chrome. Other ...
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