One last Hail Mary

[shannonsequitur]

I don’t know anything about coding, but I’m posting this here in the hope that someone who does will have pity on me.

Last year, I found this user script (no name/contact info or even a date) for hiding Dreamwidth comments from blacklisted users. It works, but replies to the comments aren’t hidden, and I would like them to be.

Please help me?

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Hello! I'm not the expert here, but your entry is getting some attention -- the main person here is off at a thing this weekend but Has some Thoughts.

[momijizukamori]

Pretty sure Azz means me in their comment - I think this should be possible but I need to look at the site code when I have more than five hours of sleep in me, so this is mostly a 'if I don't reply here again by next week please gently poke me because it probably slipped out of my goldfish brain'

[shannonsequitur]

Someone else has already heroically sorted this, but thank you for offering.

[veryroundbird]

Hi! I think I have an idea for how to fix this for you—I uploaded a crack at it here.

Dreamwidth only nests comments visually, rather than, like, HTML-wise, so you have to cycle through the successive comments to check if they're higher depth than the initial comment, and then stop once you find one that is of equal or higher depth (because that means you've exited the thread).

I haven't 100% tested this so I'm not sure if it'll 100% work but I think it'll at least get close?

[shannonsequitur]

!!!!!

How do I save this as a user script? I copied and pasted the text into a new file and saved it in .js format, but I see that the script I was already using has the extension .user.js.

If it’s relevant, I use my iPad for pretty much everything. The app I used is called Runestone.

Also: !!!!! again.

ETA: Never mind, I’ll just wait until it’s in a finished format.

[veryroundbird]

Ok! here you go; if you go to this link on something that lets you install userscripts it ??probably?? should prompt you to install it, although I'm not familiar with Runestone. I tested it and it should work as would be ideal.

[shannonsequitur]

IT WORKS. I had to change my settings so that all entries display using the default site skin, but IT WORKS.

I think I owe you a life debt or something now, because you’ve legit saved my sanity. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

[veryroundbird]

I'm really happy I could help!!

[shannonsequitur]

JSYK, I have promoted your script to the approximately two people I know who are still active on Dreamwidth.

[veryroundbird]

I'm really glad!!!