userscript called “old.reddit” found here: https://github.com/soundjester/lemmy_monkey

  • (recently updated for Lemmy v0.18)

  • original thread link here

  • This is primarily for desktop clients. At the moment, formatting get a little crazy below 1280 px wide. There are ways to address this, but I have not at this time.

  • script will be updated as suggested

    • significant changes have been made to address alignment, spacing, and other format issues. v1.1 will be where I stop for a while.

  • there are two script versions: old.reddit and old.reddit.compact. The primary difference is that the “compact” version greatly reduces thumbnail size and padding space.

  • notice: current script unblurs NSFW

(linked thumbnail shows old.reddit.compact version of the script)

Screenshot of old.reddit script results:

  • NoisyFlake@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Awesome work! Would it be possible to add the “expand image/video/text” button from RES? Preferably with the option to increase/decrease the size of images by dragging with the mouse.

    I’m talking about these: https://imgur.com/a/1yH5FTN

    That would perfect my experience!

  • denemdenem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It looks really cool but the side margins are waaay too small for my taste. I tried putting some little 1rem margins back in the container css but that gave a bad bottom scrollbar (which is the most annoying on the communities list). It’s getting late and there is work tomorrow but I might look into it more later.

  • God@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    BTW, I love your themes but I haven’t been using them cuz I have a very wide screen, it’s like 80cm ez, and the margins are necessary lol, maybe i’ll add some surround margins to the compact theme to create a version that works 4 me.

  • Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    If you are using greasemonkey, I suggest appending #.user.js to the end of the github raw url and then reloading the page, this should allow the css to be installed by greasemonkey and automatically updated.

        • starrox@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Wow that was fast! Although I’m not 100% sure its better (for high-res at least).

          Here’s how it looks for me on a 3840x2160 resolution and 110% zoom:

          But I think I understand the technical reasons beyond your change. It should be universally applicable and not just on 4k res.

          I think it still would look best if the banner is spanning the whole top, maybe up to the community-sidebar on the right (1) or even beyond that (2). I tried to highlight 1 & 2 in this poor greenshot cap :)

          Anyway, thanks for your great work!!

          • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.deEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I think having a slim banner is better, because it takes away less precious space on smaller screens. Remember that not everyone has huge monitors, many use web browsers on laptops and the like.

          • mershed_perderders@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I absolutely agree that a wider, somewhat shorter banner across the top would be best. My current logic is that most mods do not have this userscript and rely on the limits set by the default stylesheet. So they upload images optimized to fill a 730 x 240 space.

            The line that controls this in the script is line 75: GM_addStyle(".position-relative.mb-2 { max-width: 730px; }");

            if you take that out and replace it with: GM_addStyle(".img-fluid { height: 180px; }"); you’ll have something closer to what you want. It’ll still look strange tho (IMO)

            ^^ do not do this ^^ I was wrong

            • starrox@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I’ve just tested it. the GM_addStyle(“.position-relative.mb-2 { max-width: 730px; }”); is definitive the way to for now. I think you are spot on with the banner size.

                • starrox@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Yes. I’ve also looked around a bit in different subs and many of them dont even have a banner wider than a few pixels. I guess thats as good as it gets as long as there are no specified banner sizes enforced all across the network. And of course not everyone uses your glorious script (but I’ll spread the word, its really really cool!).

    • mershed_perderders@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      yeah, i keep trying to look at the bootstrap themes but it just isn’t super clear how I would edit it to be color agnostic. Like, hopefully this script works with whatever color theming you choose, it just changes the layout.

      • 0xCBE@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Maybe it’s enough to make a pull request to the original CSS files here? I would guess the Lemmy devs would rather focus more on the backend right now