'Blog' post: The past, present and future of Snapzu Enhancement

Having reached SE's 100th commit on SE's GitHub repository yesterday, I thought I'd make a post. I know 100 isn't that many, but I tend to commit rather lengthy sections of code.

SE started on the 28th of June, so here are a few stats since then:

• 4 contributors (including myself)! Thank you so much to the three who were able to read through the spaghetti that was my code and helping to improve SE. Every little bit counts.

• 19,204 additions and 16,030 deletions! Yikes! The reason this is so high is because I've done a lot of restructuring of the project since the beginning, with the latest one being what I'll stick with until a better idea comes along.

• 9 issues opened, 7 closed. This is big - I can't test every single facet of Snapzu, so having users create issues to bring this to my attention is fantastic! I'm sorry for shipping broken code but hey, nobody is perfect :)

• 76 installations! It certainly isn't RES' 2 million, but I'm still grateful that even one person thought this extension would be worth installing.

Those are all the stats that I can think to include for now. Onto the stuff you're here for!

Firefox

Yes, it is happening! The 20% of you folks will get your Firefox addon. I can't say when as I looked at the Firefox SDK for the first time ever a few days ago, but I hope to have version 1.0.0 out to you folks by the end of next week.

I've just done a huge refactor of the code into a format that is much more extensible -- I mirrored how the RES repository does it, allowing modules and features to be added for both browses, instead of having a duplicate code base.

Features to come in the future:

• Add a "leave tribe" button when joining a new one, so you don't have to navigate the menus

• Display a tribe's rules/etiquette when submitting a post/snap.

• Retain text hyperlink when expanding images in comments

• Random tribe selector

• Ability to subscribe to tribes from the front page (/t/all?)

• SHINY new icons/logos by /u/imnotgoats - props to him!

• Further support for image hosts

• Resizable webms

• Better album handling

Those are the main priorities, but I plan to look into friends and tagging, as well as highlighting for 'new' comments to threads that have been visited before.

That's it for now! Expect version 1.0.2 for Chrome and Firefox sometime next week! The change log is rather short, but involved more work than any of the previous versions.

Snapzu Enhancement v1.0.2 Change log

• With the new project structure, you should notice significantly faster expando processing time - so those hasty clickers won't have to wait for SE to process.

• A new icon for the nightmode toggle button

• Minor enhancements to nightmode colouring to make everything more readable