A quick Stack Overflow 'friends' Greasemonkey script

Posted 4 months ago in Programming

So Pete and I discovered StackOverflow.com a few days ago, and we've been pretty much addicted ever since.

It's essentially a reputation-based Q&A programming community. It's massively popular, with many questions being answered in less than 60 seconds.

Unfortunately, Stack Overflow provides no functionality for 'friending' users. Now, let the record show that I'm not a fan of yet another social networking site. However, I found myself constantly visiting the users page to visit friends' profiles.

Since I've been on a Greasemonkey kick lately, I decided to write a quick script to eliminate this problem.

You can grab the script here:

http://nicksergeant.com/projects/stuff/gm-stackoverflow-friends.user.js

As mentioned, this was a quick script, and thus, may have a few bugs here and there. If you find a problem, let me know, or submit a patch.

2 Comments

ceejayoz
4 months ago

Neato!

Nick Sergeant
3 months ago

Update: It appears there are some rather detrimental bugs with this code, specifically related to viewing comments and leaving answers. In other words, unless you feel like fixing the bugs, don't install it :)

Nick

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