Posted June 15, 2012
First of all, I don't know if this topic falls under the 'No Advertisement' rule since I don't earn any money with this. If it does break that rule, my apologies.
Enough preamble! And if you don't want to read more rambling, the download link is at the bottom of this post.
Now then, as I assume everybody here knows, almost every game on this site has its own subforum. However, the store page and the forum for a game aren't linked. That's rather annoying.
So I decided to write a Greasemonkey script to solve that problem!
And since I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who might find this useful, I decided to share that script.
If you don't know what Greasemonkey is, I'll let Wikipedia explain it:
"Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to web page content after the page is loaded in the browser". It can be downloaded here.
My Greasemonkey script adds a link to the game's forum just below the price box at the top right of a game's page. It tries various ways to find the location of that forum, so it could take a little while for the link to appear. But since that location is stored, on subsequent visits the link should be added immediately. If for some reason the script can't find the game's subforum, it instead adds a link to the forum's frontpage.
You can download the script here. If you've got the Greasemonkey addon installed, you can just click on the 'Install' button in the top right, accept the download and you're good to go!
That page also has some screenshots, to show how the script works.
I've tested this script thoroughly, but there's a decent chance I missed some odd behaviour or weird bugs. So please, feel free to post bug reports and suggestions. Also, please post games that don't work. I'm not going to add a specific solution for every game to the script, but if the forums of several games can be found in the same way, I'll most likely add that.
Enough preamble! And if you don't want to read more rambling, the download link is at the bottom of this post.
Now then, as I assume everybody here knows, almost every game on this site has its own subforum. However, the store page and the forum for a game aren't linked. That's rather annoying.
So I decided to write a Greasemonkey script to solve that problem!
And since I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who might find this useful, I decided to share that script.
If you don't know what Greasemonkey is, I'll let Wikipedia explain it:
"Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to web page content after the page is loaded in the browser". It can be downloaded here.
My Greasemonkey script adds a link to the game's forum just below the price box at the top right of a game's page. It tries various ways to find the location of that forum, so it could take a little while for the link to appear. But since that location is stored, on subsequent visits the link should be added immediately. If for some reason the script can't find the game's subforum, it instead adds a link to the forum's frontpage.
You can download the script here. If you've got the Greasemonkey addon installed, you can just click on the 'Install' button in the top right, accept the download and you're good to go!
That page also has some screenshots, to show how the script works.
I've tested this script thoroughly, but there's a decent chance I missed some odd behaviour or weird bugs. So please, feel free to post bug reports and suggestions. Also, please post games that don't work. I'm not going to add a specific solution for every game to the script, but if the forums of several games can be found in the same way, I'll most likely add that.
