A browser extension that provides various small improvements to the Astral Codex Ten blog on Substack.
Clockwise from upper left: a post using the old SSC styling; the options menu; comments using the old SSC styling; comments using the default Substack styling
- Faster comment loading on large posts
- Removal of substack clutter
- User configurable options
- Ability to make the blog look more like Slate Star Codex
- Highlight new comments
- Re-add comment likes
- Fix the header above the post
- Show the exact time and date a comment was posted
- Hide posts by certain users
- Keyboard shortcuts for comment navigation
- Apply basic Markdown styling to comments
For a full list with explanations, see here.
To change options, click the extension icon. On Firefox, you have have to right click the icon and choose "Always allow on www.astralcodexten.com".
Firefox extension. Also works on Firefox for Android.
Chrome extension. Works for anything that can use extensions from the Chrome Web Store, including Opera and Brave.
If you're using Safari, you can get some of the pure CSS fixes here. See the page for how to load them.
Under releases, you can get the source from the chrome_src.zip file under the latest release. You may be able to do something with this.
If you want to use custom styling, including things that take advantage of the extension, you can check out this page.
See the page here.
See here. Tl;dr there never is/was/will be any data collection.