user script for CF 4.0 Beta

by antman • 4 Jan 2012, 16:35 • Journals
I got inspired by this journal, so I made a small user script for Greasemonkey that changes the layout of the Crossfire 4.0 Beta:
  • new background
  • removed the rotator
  • removed twitter feed (useless since it's showing only one item which is typically a link to a news post)
  • moved the Other News, Events, Poll and Recent Activity to the top of the page
  • minor tweaking in colors

Screenshot (clickety-click for larger image):
image: preview-small

In case someone wants to try the script or tweak it further, you can grab it here:
crossfire_40.user.js
EDIT Just updated the script and fixed some issues and tidied the code a little. If you are already using it, please update it from the same link.
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Niels 4 Jan 2012, 16:37
Great, thanks!

Seems like I have some preformance problems, scrolling is going bumpy and slow.
EDIT:
found the preformance problem I zoomed in with ctrl+scroll now back to 100% and it's fine.

For the Google Chrome users you can use the script by default you don't need greasemonkey(metal) since It's build into chrome.

Idea:this twitter feed and co that you put on the top should be seperated from the main news
http://imgur.com/Ge1yX
(16:48:38) (@antman) yep, looks good, will do that when I have time for it
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Casillas 4 Jan 2012, 16:38
Knew that u would do this sooner or later >:p
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chizz6l 4 Jan 2012, 16:39
background sucks :P
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 16:41
The background was quickly made, looking forward to some pro photoshopper creating a decent background for it.
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chizz6l 4 Jan 2012, 16:47
ok :P layout looks nice tho
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adetonian 4 Jan 2012, 16:39
looks awesome

id make a small seperator between Other News, Events, Poll and Recent Activity on the top of the page and the main news section, just for ease of watching
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s1LENT 4 Jan 2012, 16:40
Looks good :]
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JamPanda 4 Jan 2012, 16:41
nice, but i think that the top bar should be a bit bigger/fatter.
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beck 4 Jan 2012, 16:41
Not fond of the background to be honest. This bar containing "Other News, Events, etc"' should be detached from the main content. It would be more readable.
If the ads have been put there it's probably because they're following the web standards and as you know, no website can survive without finances.
The navbar looks too thin.

Apart from what I wrote above, I like the colors changes, it's more readable.
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 16:43
haven't removed any ads with the script, just my adblock blocking them on the screenshot and as I said in earlier reply, some pro photoshopper could make a decent background

EDIT: made the navbar a little bigger (don't want to make it huge)
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Krii 4 Jan 2012, 16:51
awesome

add darker text and bigger menu
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Krein 4 Jan 2012, 16:55
actually looks pretty good :) CF 4.0 is too plain for me :p
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Clown 4 Jan 2012, 16:55
Is it possible to make one where the thread/news/journal titles are more compact? + xf2 theme? :D
Example:
image: c03lcmi44ozzypag2
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 17:21
the titles on the lists are now more compact
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overdrive 4 Jan 2012, 18:10
this plz. reddit / esr / xf2 theme for the non disabled people who want to visit xf4
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Krosan 4 Jan 2012, 18:12
:|
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overdrive 4 Jan 2012, 18:15
sorry mate, im getting old I guess
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infect 4 Jan 2012, 22:11
The Twitter removal is the best part :D Noone will ever want to read that :D Why did you even add it in the first place?
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ag0n 4 Jan 2012, 17:00
As i told you before, i like it, but this new version have blue nicks @right side... the important is the news (tittle), not who created it..
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 17:06
true, updated the script and put the title on blue and the author is on light gray as it is default
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dnl 4 Jan 2012, 17:01
much better
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Quiki 4 Jan 2012, 17:10
The background is no good. Crossfire is not just ET. :)
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 17:12
I know and as I've said already, if some pro photoshopper could make a nice background, I'd be more than glad to use it. This background was done quickly and just for showcase purpose.
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FLUUUUX 4 Jan 2012, 17:41
nice work ;) awesome
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RASHOMON 4 Jan 2012, 17:46
I only use script for sniping
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hOstiLl 4 Jan 2012, 17:54
Where add the script for Mozilla :D
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DiNg 4 Jan 2012, 18:33
Hey man, what's up?
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hOstiLl 4 Jan 2012, 19:17
je galère sur ma nouvelle vidéo et toi ?
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DiNg 4 Jan 2012, 19:31
Quelle vidéo? Tu tournes des pornos?

ed: et pour répondre à ta question, tu as dans les Outils de firefox un gestionnaire des modules complémentaires normalement (tu moins c'est ce qui me revient en tête)
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hOstiLl 4 Jan 2012, 19:57
Non lol une vidéo ET.

Ok merci
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Krosan 4 Jan 2012, 18:11
Do you realise that when every crossfire user clicks the ads once a day we can host crossfire LANs for free?
By removing the ads you block the innovations that make Crossfire 4.0 possible!
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Paper 4 Jan 2012, 18:19
Is this true? Why not make a HUUUUGE newspost about it! I might never go to LAN, but it's not hard for me to help out with a few clicks p/day!
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Krosan 4 Jan 2012, 18:23
Google ads normally don't allow "forcing" users to click on ads. So if an increase in clicks is noticed and google ads finds out we've been advising users to click on them just to get cash, our complete cashflow will be cut off.
It just takes some common sense to realize why we put ads on our brand new page, and it's not because we love them ;)
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Paper 4 Jan 2012, 18:57
I didn't knew you could make that much money on ads! BRB, setting my own website ;)
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dualinity 4 Jan 2012, 18:26
i support this cause, krosan friend.

I however, am a cunt. and crossfire is not in my adblock exceptions.
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Clown 4 Jan 2012, 18:36
Script doesn't remove ads, it's his adblock in the pictures.
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 18:37
haven't removed any ads with the script, just my adblock blocking them on the screenshot
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ag0n 4 Jan 2012, 18:42
Fair enough, although i am one of the users that use adblock to disable everything at everysite. Either way, i'm not well informed, but can't you just place the ads at the end of website so it doesn't bother me.. or perhaps "load them invisibly" ? like reduce the visibility to 1px....

I seriously hate them because they make the websites ugly.
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Krosan 4 Jan 2012, 19:21
If you don't actually click the ad, it doesn't matter how many pageviews you get for it. Been there, done that ;)
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ag0n 4 Jan 2012, 19:23
Lol,, i though the ammount they pay depends where the ad his / size of ads etc... In this case, remove all the ads and add a "donate button" where if you click it loads X ads... if every user do it once per day it would be awesome. And ye i saw what you wrote up about google.
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Krosan 4 Jan 2012, 19:26
There are strong rules about that, you can't really fool the system like that :P
And the reason why we've got the ads way up there is because if we like to show specific sponsor advertisement, we can ask a lot more monies :)
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ag0n 4 Jan 2012, 19:28
Well makes sense, but atleast speaking for myself, i will never click at any ad intentionally :| it's like if my eyes / brain filter them, i never read them.. in fact i have no idea what kind of ads show at cf :D
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overdrive 4 Jan 2012, 18:42
maybe he hasnt added xf4 to his exceptions yet?
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Krosan 4 Jan 2012, 19:20
He should! I wanna go to South Africa this year!
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Kiewan 4 Jan 2012, 22:14
Im sure the majority would be glad if cf4 didn't get launched at all because of that.
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Edgar 4 Jan 2012, 23:10
Google ads are bs. There's different ad websites where you can get more money out of their system.
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HugTheSub 5 Jan 2012, 03:54
cant you keep the square/box at the top and move the "banner sized" one to the bottom?
with so little gfx design on the website the ads are totally dominant.

e: also for me its alwas rift advertisement but i cant seem to click it
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Krosan 5 Jan 2012, 04:11
It's just a png for now :)
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subakk 4 Jan 2012, 18:43
lack of transparency, ugly layout
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moLy 4 Jan 2012, 19:43
imo it's too weak !! nothing with gaming looks to simple imo ;p
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fuJiii 4 Jan 2012, 19:47
well done :)

e:is it me or cant you see which journal got new comments? always the same light blue
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 20:09
fixed the unread issue, now the color for unread titles is the blue and color for those titles you have read changes to black, just reload the script from the same url to get the updates
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fuJiii 4 Jan 2012, 20:16
found another thing

image: cant%20read
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 20:19
fixed now :)
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fuJiii 4 Jan 2012, 20:24
nice, this one seems still bugged http://skooli.denied.tv/videos/1501/scope-fragmovie :P

btw i dont want to complain about your work :D .. looks good :)
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 20:28
thank you mr. bug hunter :)
that was due to the description being so short, but now I set min-height for the description div
in other words: fixed now

ps. actually good that someone tests it thoroughly so I can fix the issues I haven't noticed myself
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fuJiii 4 Jan 2012, 20:34
and more :D:
image: %231 transparent profile
image: %232 white field below the groups in the profile
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 20:39
fixed :) these are all because I had to remove the white background from the #index div to create the gap between the other news section and main content section, now it seems I need to add the background to a few divs ;)
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fuJiii 4 Jan 2012, 20:44
i dont get it what your are trying to say but its nice too see someone is doing something for CF ;D

ok i understand now ^^
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antman 4 Jan 2012, 20:45
doesn't matter, just check your inbox ;)
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