SO-Family Quick-Reference to Q's, A's, and Fav's

Question

Download Source:

http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-bigbox.user.js

Installation:

1. Install Greasemonkey for Firefox.
2. Restart Firefox.
3. Return here and click the 'download source' link.
4. Once downloaded, click Tools > Greasemonkey > Manage User Scripts
5. Select "so-bigbox" from the list, and add the following "Included Pages"
   1. *stackoverflow*
   2. *serverfault*
   3. *superuser*
6. That's it, you're done.

General Information:

Works on Meta, Stackoverflow, Serverfault, and Super User. Determines your user-id automatically based upon the DOM. You can change it to any other id to spy on your friends.

var user_id = $("#hlinks a[href^='...']").next("a").attr("href").split("/")[2];

    user_id = 22656; /* What is Jon Skeet up to lately? 
                        Overwrites previous value. */

Upon page-load When the panel is opened for the first time after a page-load the script will request any lists you've explicitly declared as 'true' within your copy of the script. It will then add a toggle-bar to the bottom of your screen (fixed). Clicking this bar will toggle the search-lists. Searches are now case-insensitive!

Configuration:

Comes with a list of configurable sources. If you don't want to search your own past answers, modify the sources-block:

var user_questions = true;
var user_answers   = false; /* I DO NOT want to search my answers */
var user_favorites = true;

Ships with a default cap of 100 recent items. This means your default lists will contain only the 200 most recent items. You can manually change this if you like:

var max_items = 100;

Answer 1

Just for the record, that is really cool. I wish I could resize it myself though.

Answer 2

Not to toot my own horn, but this thing really is awesome. I'm finding it easy to jump back to questions I've recently answered just by clicking the toggle-bar, and looking to the top of my "Answers" list. I can see which favorites were recently updated by looking to the top of my favorites list, and the same goes for questions I've asked. This is great!

Answer 3

Looks and works good, although doesn't work in GreaseKit (safari).

One recommendation I have is using a better search algorithm. Exact matching can get gruesome when you have a lot of questions/answers. I find the quicksilver search/sort algorithm to be particularly good, which was ported to jQuery by John Resig himself. It will make your code a bit longer, but will greatly improve searching for power-users, who are probably more likely to use this anyways.

Answer 4

A feature request :) Could you add some more info about the recently changed questions..?

Now the tooltip shows the start of the question, but I think far more interesting would be the start of the most recent (or most recently edited) answer. And, at least, it would be useful to see who made the most recent change and when. For example "jul 15 at 10:18 Roubachof" like on the favourites page - this could IMHO be shown all the time (i.e. not in the tooltip) somewhere near the question title, maybe in slightly smaller font and another colour.

Answer 5

Love the script, but I found it hung a few times waiting for a response from your server, so I inlined the images. I couldn't figure out how to reuse the loading image so added it three 3 times. Happy to post the update if you'd like.

Answer 6

I have a slight problem with this script. I modded it to show 300 items per (what can i say? i ask and favorite a lot of stuff) and it always seems to be spinning for my questions...

Answer 7

Doesn't work for me. I made sure to restart and add the sites, but I don't see anything