Tiny new release with thanks to /u/greypo for highlighting the need for it. In v102, bulk-inviting people to a subreddit would fall over and stop if it came to
somebody who was banned from that subreddit, requiring the user to manually remove their name from the list before they could continue. In v104, instead, it treats them the same as if
their username was invalid: it logs the reason that it failed to invite them, but then carries on with the rest of the list.
tl;dr: if you didn’t know you needed this feature, you don’t.
If there’s one place on Reddit that this kind of self-promotion shouldn’t be considered inappropriate, it’d be in the subreddit that carries my name. And now that we’re
this high up (and you’re seeing my face everywhere already), I’ve got no problem with any of you having a link by which you can work out exactly who I am in real
life.
So here’s the latest post from my ‘blog. It’s pretty dull unless you use the Squiz CMS at your workplace or write PHP code in your day job, though. I promise I’m more interesting,
sometimes.
I’ve just released MegaMegaMonitor v102. As usual, the new version will probably install itself automatically the next time that your installation of Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey decides
to check for it, but you can – if you prefer – force the upgrade to happen immediately by installing MegaMegaMonitor again.
Here’s what’s new in 102:
The message encryption tools, which were partially
shown off last month, are now available for your use. With them, you can add secret messages to posts and comments that can only be read my MegaMegaMonitor users who also happen
to be in particular private subreddits. For example, here’s a secret message that only people in /r/MegaMegaMegaLounge (or higher) will be able to
read:
For those of you who were concerned about the proliferation of icons across your screens, and don’t want to see so many, there’s now an icon suppression option.
So if you’re in /r/gildeddrunk but don’t want to keep spotting your fellow alcoholics around the place, you can hide that icon. It doesn’t stop other
people from that subreddit from seeing the icon next to your name, though!
Edit: Turns out this feature was in v100, too. I can’t keep track. I was pretty sure that there were four features I meant to tell you about today, though… I wonder
what I’ve forgotten…
Remember the gilding graphs tool I showed you
at the start of this month? Well: now it’s a bona fide part of MegaMegaMonitor, and it’s far easier to use than the old copy-and-paste-the-Javascript way, so there’s no
excuse for you not to make yourself a graph to show off how you’ve been gilding.
And finally, lists. I showed off
screenshots from a prototype version of this feature last week, and since then it’s been refined and improved into something that I hope will really help the moderators of some of
my favourite private subreddits. But because it runs from your own computer, you can use it even on subreddits that I’m not personally part of (although that does make it a little
slower than other MegaMegaMonitor features)! If you can’t see how MMM lists might be useful to you, here’s a recipe book
of use cases that might help you to understand.
This is probably the biggest ever new release of MegaMegaMonitor, with a stack of fun new features. Sorry about the delay in releasing it: those of you who know about my personal life
have an idea of how busy this month has been for me, so that’s my excuse for the delay!
Edit2: I’ve remembered what the fourth thing is, now! I’ve tried to improve the ‘hover’ behaviour of the MMM popup, so it shouldn’t bug you so much if your cursor
drifts over it by accident!
As some of you probably already know, I had an interview for my boss’s job the other week. Well my employee has taken the unusual (for them) step of cutting down the list and then
arranging a second interview! Me and two others left, by my estimation. Wish me luck!
Edit: Wow, you guys are awesome. I love you all so much. Came out of the interview, looked at my phone, and saw this outpouring of good wishes. Thanks so much! Just
what I needed.
Interview went well: better than the first one; think I’m in with a real chance. Should know by the weekend.
For those of you who’re also in other private subreddits, like /u/outroversion, /u/k_princess, and /u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA, you’ll also see icons for some of these communities, too. Plus there’s a tool for searching for a person’s posts within a
particular subreddit, so if you’ve got a personal policy never to gild anybody who’s posted something in e.g. /r/TheRedPill, then it’s now easier for you
to check (I’m not recommending this kind of selective gilding policy, and it’s not for me personally… but I know that some of you do it!).
Anyway: please do go and play with it and let me know what you think. I’m sure that our mods who use it (which is all of them except /u/ULTIMATUM7, as it
happens!) will back me up about how valuable a tool it is.
I’ve just made an interim release of MegaMegaMonitor. Not many new features, but I’ve made huge improvements to the way that I build and release MegaMegaMonitor versions, which will
make it easier for me to have a “test” version that’s under construction and to later roll those changes into the live release. Which means it’s easier for me to make new features.
Improvements in this release include:
A smaller download – MegaMegaMonitor is now down from about 77K to about 43K, which means that it installs faster
The Options/Tools panel now has some basic CSS to make it marginally less-hideous
A bug was fixed in the “search for a user’s post by subreddit” feature, which caused links to posts that were link (rather than self) posts to link to the content rather
than to the post, making them useless
An option was added to the Options/Tools panel to allow you to suppress icons that you don’t care about. So if you’re in /r/DecadeClub but for some
reason don’t feel a strong attachment to that community, you don’t have to see their icon around Reddit.
There’s an icon already set up for the next upcoming (not yet announced) MegaLounge, so as soon as it opens and people start getting invited (I think there are about 5 of
us gilded-and-ready-to-go, so far, and they’re all special MMM’er), the icon’s already been made. Mysterious, no?
There’s lots more features still to come, but I wanted to give you all of that stuff by way of apology for being sort-of absent for the last week or two. I’m still loving all of your
suggestions and I’ll be getting to most of them as soon as I can, but keep them coming. Thanks!
If you already use MMM, the update will probably come automatically for you. Or you can just go to the webpage (linked below) and click “Install MegaMegaMonitor” to force it to update
to the latest version.
Back in the early 2000s when I was suffering from insomnia I used to sit up and watch all kinds of trashy late-night TV on the UK’s (then new) Channel 5. There was one show that I got
hooked on and tuned in to religiously, simply because its presentation was so bizarre. That show was outTHERE (iMDB) (Wikipedia). I’d love to find some episodes of it: I’m happy to pay for DVDs or watch episodes online or whatever, but I just can’t find
any. Anywhere. Seriously: it’s like the entire show has vanished.
