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cynber@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

We’re actually working on a browser extension for this! It currently supports both communities and posts

!InstanceAssistant@lemmy.ca

We ran into the same issue, federated sites are hard to work with. Right now, the extension has it so that a user needs to right click on a link to be redirected. That way the user can choose which links get redirected, and there’s no chance of accidentally redirecting the wrong thing.

There are other solutions (using the API for example), but they seemed to slow the browser down too much. Another proposed feature that hasn’t been implemented yet was to redirect when holding down a key (when holding down “r”, try to redirect the link).

Feel free to take a look, try it, and you can totally contribute code. It’s all open source and we’ve tried to keep the code simple and easy to verify/contribute.

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BeanCounter@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I am not that familiar with browser extensions dev enough to contribute rn but that looks awesome. If there’s any chance, I’ll definitely contribute!

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- cynber@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sounds good! This was my first dive into browser extensions as well. It’s not too bad once you go over the basics. If you give it a try, see the contributing page on the repo’s wiki for some resources on how to get started with browser extensions.
  
  A super short summary is:
  
  manifest.json is the entry point, it links to HTML files (which represent things like the popup, sidebar) and scripts (which do most of the work)
  
  the background script runs all the time (see background.js), and the content scripts run on specific pages (ex. There’s one for Lemmy community pages, one for error pages)
  
  If you DO give it a try, we were part way through migrating features from the LemmyTools userscript and that might be a good place to start. I wasn’t familiar with userscripts so I didn’t make much progress, and can’t get back to it for a little while. The issues page of the repo should have LemmyTools related features tagged. If any details are missing, let me know and I’ll add them in :)
  
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