Have you modded your SO interface? [closed]

Question

Stack Overflow really has a nice clean interface, but I always find some little things I like to tweak - with Stylish and/or Greasemonkey - in the sites I visit most.

So far I have replaced Arial (I really can't stand that font) with Droid Sans and also replaced the fixed width font with Droid Sans Mono. I also switched off the little red x from the interesting/ignored tag boxes on top right -- I believe they look a lot better without those, and I can remove them from my profile's pref page.

So I'm curious, have you tweaked your interface and how?

Answer 1

No, I want to experience the site as the creators intended it

Answer 2

No. I can understand why one might do that, but I use several different' computers to access SO based on a circumstances, and I don't want to have to synchronize all my mods amongst them.

I'm waiting for the API so I can use a single, customizable web interface to access all the stackexchange sites I visit.

I'm guessing we'll have an API in 6-8 weeks.

Answer 3

There are a few greasemonkey scripts I've started using. It's more about functionality than looks:

• Extended top bar, the most look-changing. I use it more for the links than the extra graphics, and have been thinking about modding it to match my preferences.
• Revert the close-reason dialogue from wall-o'-text to reasonably-sized.
• Show latest activity glyph for the front page.

Answer 4

I have, but only in a very minor fashion. I adjusted the inline code fonts to clean up the "river" effect a bit. I haven't felt much need to go farther than that; the rest of the UI is fine for me.

Also, I added a couple of GreaseMonkey scripts now:

• SO Dupecloser
• SO Show Today's Reputation
• SO Tag Votes and Tag Badges

Answer 5

Yes, I've tweaked my entire meta-UI:

Did you ever wish you could have a Hot Dog Stand-themed meta.stackoverflow.com?

Answer 6

Yes

// ==UserScript==
// @name UIOverflow
// @description Pretty up the SE sites
// @include http://stackoverflow.com/*
// @incldue http://superuser.com/*
// @include http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*
// @include http://*.stackexchange.com/*
// @include http://serverfault.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

function xpath(query) {
    return document.evaluate(query, document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
}

function removeByXPath(query){
    var foos, foo;
    foos = xpath(query);

    for (var bar = 0; bar < foos.snapshotLength; bar++){
        foo = foos.snapshotItem(bar);
        foo.parentNode.removeChild(foo);
    }
}

function removeById(id){
    var x = document.getElementById(id);
    if (x) x.parentNode.removeChild(x);
}


// Ads
removeByXPath('//*[@class="everyonelovesstackoverflow"]');
removeByXPath('//*[@class="hireme"]');
removeByXPath('//div[@class="user-gravatar32"]');
removeByXPath('//div[@class="user-action-time"]');

// Make the sidebar bg grey
var sidebar = document.getElementById("sidebar");
if (sidebar) { sidebar.style.backgroundColor = "CCCCCC"; }

// Remove some cruft links at the top and bottom
removeById("hlinks-custom");
removeById("footer");