okay, so this is the list of greasemonkey scripts I use for flickr at the moment..
and there is also a whole forum dedicated to them in the flickr help forum:
www.flickr.com/groups/flickrhacks/discuss/
of course you first need firefox and greasemonkey installed..
anyway:
Flickr auto page:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/8594.user.js
this script will make the next page load automatically at the bottom of the recent one. you basically get infinite scroll and don't have to click on "next page" again.
Flickr Buddy Icon Reply:
www.bobochu.com/files/greasemonkey/flickrbuddyiconreply3_3.user.js
adds icon reply and name reply buttons at the end of a post
Flickr Photo Page Enhancer:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/1030.user.js
The script adds direct links to all of an image’s sizes, as well as a “Quick Link” box to quickly copy and paste the HTML for a thumbnail link. It also automatically loads your most used tags whenever you click to add a tag to an image.
Flickr Photo Rank:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/7048.user.js
The script queries flickr for rank of the current photo in explore. The result is displayed on the photo page in additional information.
Flickr Quick View Of Photo Comments:
http://webdev.yuan.cc/greasemonkey/flickr.comments.quickview.user.js
this script makes the "# comments" text on the photostream pages clickable and it will show a pop up window with all the comments on that picture, enabling you to stay on the stream page but still read the comments. this saves time because you don't have to reload the stream after you clicked back in the browser.
this is really handy if you also use "auto page", because with autopage you might be looking at the 12th page because of the infinite scroll, but when reloaded it jumps back to the first one only. with this script you can look at comments, and still stay in the place you were on the stream
Flickr Comment Tools:
www.ts0.com/flickrcommenttools/FlickrCommentTools.user.js
Flickr Comment Tools is a simple browser plugin that puts a tool bar across the comments box on photos, discussions and in flickr mail. It gives you simple text editing options as well as the ability to insert images from your photostream and smilies.
Flickr Move Additional Info:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/6811.user.js
this script moves the info of the picture up in the right part of the list.
- this is typically a personal preferences script, just see if you like it, you can always disable scripts easily anyway - see at the bottom of this mail..
Flickr Commented On:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/10382.user.js
This adds a small icon to the button bar on a flickr photo. The icon will be greyed out if you haven't posted a comment on the particular image - and will be coloured if you have.
Flickr Remove 1px Border:
www.geocities.com/popsteric/nonavborders.user .js
The script removes the 1 pixel border around all the navigation buttons.
you will only notice this when you have a well calibrated sreen (the flickr background is light grey, the borders are white) or when you use a colour changing script like Flickr Shades (see below).
then some user scripts I found because I was making this list, I'm currently testing them:
Flickr Quoter:
http://steeev.freehostia.com/flickr/flickr.quoter.user.js
adds a quote button under every post.
Flickr Cross-Recommendations:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/35134.user.js
Adds a "People who faved this also faved..." panel to photos on Flickr
Flickr No Awards:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/25312.user.js
this hides all the "award" posts on the comments pages.
there is a link on top though that says how many awards have been hidden, and you can click it to view.
and before I get to the last userscript I tested, here is two links to more scripts that you can test yourself:
http://userscripts.org/tags/flickr
www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/72157594173689443/72157607955834324/
okay, so the last script, that needs some tweaking:
Flickr Shades:
http://steeev.cfdeveloper.co.uk/flickr/flickr.shades.user.js
this is the discussion page: www.flickr.com/photos/steeev/29736810/
what the script does is it will let you redesign the colour layout of all the pages on flickr..
okay, so I tested this last one, but it kind of sucks to have a black background everywhere, but, with some tweaking it can be cool.
e.g. the new home page and the recent comments pages look way less cluttered in black, and sometimes it is nice for photo pages too.
to explain to you how to tweak this one, I need to go technical on you, so get a cup of tea, and read the next part step by step:
in firefox click on the top bar: tools > greasemonkey > manage user scripts
this will toggle all user scripts, this is also where you can enable and disable them one by one.
there are two levels of tweaking:
the first one is the easy one, it's the included and excluded pages.
for the "shades" script you could choose to add some links to the excluded part like:
www.flickr.com/help*
www.flickr.com/groups*
www.flickr.com/photos*
www.flickr.com/messages*
just surf flickr for a bit, and decide where you don't want the black background, above links are the most common places, but you think of them yourself too.
*edit: what I have done for myself in this script is in the settings I put for:
include pages: www.flickr.com/*
exclude pages: flickr.com/*
nothing else
now if I want to have a black background, I just leave out or delete the "http://www." in the address bar.
the second level is a bit more tricky, but you need to do it to get the "home" button back that the developer of this script thought was useless, so:
firefox/top bar: tools > greasemonkey > manage user scripts
select "Flickr Shades" and click edit. this will open a notepad (windows) or textedit (mac) with the full script.
in this script scroll all the way down untill you get to the following parts:
// the home button is pretty pointless for most people so lets surgically remove it
and
// add a link to steeev's flickr tools and greasemonkey scripts page
start at "// the home button" and remove everything there downwards until you are left with only the last two lines. this removed, the end of that page should look like this:
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}
}
})()
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save this and refresh your browser to see if it worked.
DONE!!! :)
* to edit the colours in this script: right click the little greasemonkey in the bottom right of your browser and choose: user script commands > flickr shades > colour scheme editor.
maybe later today I will try to see if I can combine the two scripts "buddy icon reply" and "quoter", but I'm not a programmer, just a guy with some knowledge of html, so if things are intuitive I can edit them, but one level up, it's beyond my reach...
I will also be looking into removing the white edge around all the navigation buttons, so it doesn't look so busy with a dark background..
pfew, that turned out to be a whole book I just wrote..
eRic.
PS:
all other scripts don't work when the part of the page you are looking at has been loaded by the autopage script (icon reply, quick comment view)