[NEW VERSION] Steemit More Info 1.2 - Chrome Extension + Firefox Extension

in #steemdev7 years ago (edited)

NEW VERSION AVAILABLE:

https://steemit.com/steemdev/@armandocat/steemit-more-info-1-3-chrome-extension-firefox-extension








A simple Steemit extension that shows more info on steemit.com

If you use steemit.com, you may have notice that it is lacking a lot of functionalities.
That's why you need to use tools like https://steemd.com/, https://steemdb.com/, https://steemstats.com/, https://www.steemnow.com/, ...
A lot of tools!

So why another tool???
Because this is a Chrome and Firefox extension that you install on your browser, and then all the informations you need will be available to you directly on steemit.com!

Please take into consideration that this is a new project that I just started, and the features are limited to just a few so far! I'm planning to add more and more features in the next versions. Every suggestion and idea is very much appreciated!

This is version 1.2 with some bug fixes and a few new features added


Features

  • In the profile page of any account, you will see a Vote Power indicator on top (next to the name and the reputation), with the reward that a 100% vote from that user will give in SBD ($)

  • In the profile page of any account, you will see the number of votes that user has done today


  • A new tab 'Votes' is added, where you may see the latest upvotes done or received by that user.
    It shows the estimate of the votes in $ too!
    You can filter the votes between incoming votes and outgoing votes

  • Added a dropdown menu with links to external tools to get more info about the steem account. Please let me know what tools you'd like to see here ;)


  • When you click upvote and the Vote Weight slider appears, not only you see the percentage of the vote, but you also see the amount in $ that upvote will be valued


  • For downvotes, it shows also the total reward of the post after your downvote

  • When you are looking at a post or comment and you click "votes" to see the list of people that voted that post, you now also see what was their contribute to the total reward!


  • You can see the posts with two different layouts: list (default) and grid! You can change to grid layout using on the buttons on the top-right corner of the page.

  • On the blog page of an user, you now see an histogram of the posts of that user based on the creation date. You can scroll horizontally to go back in time.
    Posts made by the user are shown in blue, reposts in green!




    By clicking on one of the bars, you can open the list of posts made on one specific date. This makes it easier to look at old posts of an user!

    You can choose to show the histogram automatically on page load (default) or if you prefer to load the histogram on request if you find it to be too invasive. To change this setting, hover on the histogram title and select "On load: hidden"


  • The followers and following pages have been updated to show a table of the followers/following, with more informations (Reputation, STEEM Power, Upvote Worth). You can sort by the different attributes by clicking on the table's column.


  • When you read a post, now there is a floating bar with the tags, date, author and upvotes of the post, so you can easily access this informations and upvote the post if you like it!

    If you prefer a less intrusive way, in the setting you can choose the small floating bar layout


  • The markdown editor used to write new posts now shows the preview at the right side of the editor. While you write the post, if you scroll through your textual content, the preview will automatically scroll to the right point. This feature is available for screens with at least 900px width


  • If you want to better see the avatar of an account, just hover on the user picture to open a bigger version of the avatar image


  • Steemit More Info Settings. You can now choose to enable or disable each of the features provided by Steemit More Info! Just go in your account settings.






Future development

I'm planning to add more features like:

  • COMING SOON: Trending of up to 5 favorite tags in one page. You select your favorite tags and you'll see the list of the top trending of all the tags combined in one list. I'm not releasing this feature yet because it still has some bugs.
  • Notifications, for instance if somebody replies on one of your posts or comments, if you get an upvote, ...
  • A page with some graphs of the stats of the account
  • Working on my own API, such as mentions notification, followers by date of follow operation, posts reposted by others, ...
  • Something about GIF ;)
  • ...

Privacy - Do I steal your data?

I do not access your private keys. The only way I could do it, is if you go to your wallet page and click on "show private key". But I don't do it!
Should you trust me? Well, I believe is better not to trust anyone. That's why the source code of the extension is available on github and you can (and you are encourage to) look and study it!

The way it works is by scraping the webpage and the url of the page you are looking at to extract your username and the username of the user you are looking at. Then it uses steem-js to get informations about that user.
This process doesn't involve any private key! In fact, you can see informations of other users as well, even if you obbiuvsly don't know their private keys.

Installation

The extension is now available on the Chrome Extension Store
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/steemit-more-info/dcbpmclnlapbkgkddhencielibcjogcf

The extension is now available on the Firefox Extension Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/steemit-more-info/


If you prefer, you can choose to install it yourself manually:

  • Download and unzip the extension. LINK: https://github.com/armandocat/steemit-more-info/archive/master.zip
  • If you are using Chrome
    • Open the Chrome Extentions page by typing chrome://extensions in your Chrome Browser.
    • Drag and drop the root folder of the project you just unzipped (steemit-more-info) inside the chrome extension page.
  • If you are using Firefox
    • Open about:debugging in Firefox, click "Load Temporary Add-on" and select any file in the extension's directory.
    • You will need to do this each time you close and reopen Firefox
  • Go to Steemit!

When a new version of the extension is available, a popup in the top right corner of the page will appear with a link where you can read about the update and download the new version.


Manually Force Google Chrome to Update Extensions

  • Head to chrome://extensions by either right-clicking on an extension and choosing Manage extensions, or just typing it into the location bar.
  • Check the Developer mode box on the right-hand side.
  • Click the "Update extensions now" button.

Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/64525/how-to-manually-force-google-chrome-to-update-extensions/


Bugs and new features requests

Please feel free to comment here or contact me on steemit.chat if you have suggestions or features requests!


Please help me spread the word by resteem and upvote this post!

I'm doing this project in my free time. The more interest I get from the community, the more I'll be devoted to improve it!
So if you like this project, help me in letting everyone know about it.
And follow me! I will post any update on this extension and other projects I'll work on! And you will also see some beautiful picture about myself 😹🐾

Thanks!

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I will review the newest version like I did the other ones for security. Thank you for this extension, it is excellent!

Edit: if you are looking for an api, please contact me. Minnowbooster just launched its own extension and if you are interested, you can use our api to receive new Blockchain events comfortably from a websocket.

I am available for discussion here in the comments, on steemit chat and discord and would be willing to fund further development if you are interested!

Edit2: I have reviewed the extension and could not find any code that tries to access your keys or pose any other thread. I talked with @armandocat and will get some lead time for new versions, so you all can be safe to update it. I will comment under new updates with my findings in a more detailed manner that just saying that it is okay. From version 1.3 I am willing to put 100STEEM as a security should there be a security risk I am missing.

Users of this extension, please remember that any browser extension can potentially steal your private keys and money. Extensions installed via a web store that updates them automatically could be silently upgraded to malicious versions later, post-audit, without your knowledge if the author's own credentials (to upload new versions) become compromised somehow.

Please do be extremely careful with accounts that have significant amounts of money in them. This is not a theoretical risk.

I can not empathize this more! Using a browser extension that can read the data on steemit.com is a huge risk and should not be treated lightly. If you can (I know Firefox supports it) disable auto update or better, install it from the source I reviewed.

We are currently having multiple scamming attempts and a browser extension that steals your keys is definitely a possibility. And don't take anyone's word for it that an extension is secure. Humans make mistakes and a security audit is no protection.

certainly as the extensions can steal you datas thats why asked in the previous comment about is this official or not .

No, it is not an official project.

Much appreciated Reggaemuffin!

Hello guys i am a new person to steemit on seeing many post i found that some post having 20 upvotes having 100$ worth but i am sad to say that there are some posts which have 50 upvote is having only 1$ so can any one tell me the trick behind it.
Steemit is a crypotocurrency and is this site a part of cryptocurrency whether this site is apart of steemit coin .
@armandocat is this extension a official extension from steemit on seeing u r post i found that it has made the use easier and user friendly .
if the number of words increased the post worth will increase or not @reggaemuffin you comment is worth $19.47 can u explain the trick to increase the earnings am very interested to here from you please be kind to revel the trick.

Thank you for doing this.

Thank you for the security check. Nice to have someone endorse a great extenstion.

@armandocat, I have a suggestion and wonder if can be done.

The followers names are simply listed alphabetically right now. Same is the case with people we follow. There is no other information available and for further information, we have to click the account name and open a new tab. I wonder if some key information about our connections can be seen in the list; like reputation, last active etc. It will greatly help us see who is doing what on Steemit and make our community better in my opinion.

What do you people think? I resteemed this amazing information and I think this is by far the best development for browser users.

Edit:- I just installed add-on on the Firefox mobile browser and saw that my suggestion is already so wisely incorporated. Love this tool!

Great To Hear That .So Awsome

you can use our api to receive new Blockchain events comfortably from a websocket

That sounds very very compelling.

From version 1.3 I am willing to put 100STEEM as a security should there be a security risk I am missing.

Great incentive @reggaemuffin!

I am looking forward to the new version. From what I saw it has some fancy new features! I am using the extension myself and it really improved my experience! So supporting it is the logical step 😉

From version 1.3 I am willing to put 100STEEM as a security should there be a security risk I am missing.

There is a lot more bounty in the wallets of all of the users of the extension than 100 STEEM. :)

Definitely! I have to say my wallet alone has more than that most of the time. It is just a way for me to empathize how confident I am in this review. Browser extensions are a huge risk and should be treated with caution, so I don't treat me auditing this extension lightly.

fantastic update, resteemed. have you spoken to the steemit team or @ned about them rolling this into condenser itself or at least work on that development team, you would be an asset to the team i'm sure for frontend work. could you not activate that animated profile thing disabled or enabled now do you think? :)

Damn, this is really cool.

Thanks for putting the time in to make this! And having the heart to share this!!!

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Please feel free to comment here or contact me on steemit.chat if you have suggestions or features requests!

Working on my own API, such as mentions notification, followers by date of follow operation, posts reposted by others, ...

Hey there! @armandocat very helpful tool indeed. I like it. Regarding features requests:

  • Yup! I reckon followers by date would be a very welcome one to see who your most recent followers are for multiple reasons. And posts reposted by others too. I hope you really have the chance to pulish and finish soon the work on your own API to get embedded all those valuable tidy bits already available in your app too. :)

  • On other hand, through the odd side of things. ¿Would you think you could develop some way to know who has seen your posts? I mean, ¿Extract and get from the steem blockchain the steemian's usernames of those behind and under the Views Counter in your posts?

Yes! please, let me know about your progress on these specific pair of requested features. I'll be looking forward for the next update.

Cheers!! :)

Simply great post ...Resteemed !!

Yup! I reckon followers by date would be a very welcome one to see who your most recent followers are for multiple reasons. And posts reposted by others too. I hope you really have the chance to pulish and finish soon the work on your own API to get embedded all those valuable tidy bits already available in your app too. :)

I didn't have time yet to start working on it. I'll let you know when ready!

On other hand, through the odd side of things. ¿Would you think you could develop some way to know who has seen your posts? I mean, ¿Extract and get from the steem blockchain the steemian's usernames of those behind and under the Views Counter in your posts?

That's not possible. For what I know, that is an API of steemit, not the blockchain. And there is no way that I know on how to extract who saw the post. If someone know somethings more, please let me know ;)

how safe are these extensions??



My man, I love that pop-up notification you just made! You are a genius :D

I really want to thank you for making such a great interface! Well done.

I am really enjoying this.

great job

Follow and vote me thanks you are great i am new need for your help

A brave browser extension would be nice

Thanks for this great addition to Steemit :)
I have just updated my 4 Steemit browser themes for the Stylish Plugin for compatibility with this 'more info' plugin - see here for more info.

What a pioneer... Legend

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