Userscripts.org Blog

Getting stylish!

Published Nov 23, 2008

This week has brought a new site header, script header and lots of other improvements. Thanks to all of those who helped make it happen!

Comments are dead, discussions are live!

Published Nov 16, 2008

Commenting on scripts has been popular, there has been 53,095 comments on 8,218 scripts since June 20th, 2005. Their success has come at a cost of usefulness. To bring order back to comments, comments are now threaded (eg, topics and posts).

Fans, Reviews and Preview of "Guides"

Published Oct 27, 2008

Searching and browsing script by number of fans is now possible, reviewing/rating scripts is back (after a really really long hiatus), and a preview of "Guides".

New Search Engine

Published Oct 22, 2008

I've updated the search engine, speed and flexibility!

Times they are a changing

Published Oct 8, 2008

A new frontpage, integrate a how-to, integrated "Share this", made some style improvements, and the dashboard (/home) have been released!

Voting on comments

Published Sep 28, 2008

To help highlight good comments and remove the bad ones, I've pushed a new version of the comment system.

Userscripts.org has no class

Published Aug 26, 2008

Users have been abusing the class attribute in comments/descriptions/other fields. It has gotten rather bad, so I've had to disable it :(

Performance Increases

Published Aug 1, 2008

Database, CPU and RAM usage cut in half. Slow parts of the site targeted. Thanks to New Relic.

Script Versioning

Published Jul 29, 2008

Versions are now stored for scripts. I'm working on "diff" functionality as well as adding "release notes" so users can see what has changed.

Progress

Published May 25, 2008

Implemented several requests and am planning several other features/fixes thanks to your input.

Feedback Redux

Published May 12, 2008

The site has been stable for a while, now lets start improving it.

Hotlinking of Unlisted Scripts Disabled

Published Jan 27, 2008

Disabling hotlinking for unlisted scripts means they cannot be used in bookmarklets.

Script Reviews

Published Jan 23, 2008

The last straw happened this evening. Reviews are coming this weekend! Help plan them here.

Communities Idea

Published Dec 28, 2007

Communities are what happens when tags grow up ;) Here is the current idea and some questions.

Vague Scripts

Published Dec 24, 2007

I've added the required code to the database, search engine, and user interface to support hiding of scripts, 1632 scripts so far. Also, you can flag a script as vague...

"Scrap All" Defense Plan

Published Dec 23, 2007

Now that the site has been upgraded to the current version of rails, I can move forward with making it so the "Scrap all" plague doesn't kill the site. This involves: 1) adding non-public flags to scripts so they don't get shown in public areas 2) adding a "group/community" feature

Flagging spam / bad scripts

Published Nov 28, 2007

Userscripts.org has long needed a way to mark content (scripts/comments/...) as spam/malware/... Today the feature has been deployed!

Superior Searching

Published Oct 20, 2007

Searching for userscripts used to be slow and only search the descriptions. Now searching uses SOLR and searches names, summary, descriptions and source.

Happy Mongrels

Published Oct 18, 2007

Scaling userscripts.org has been a fun journey. Thanks to monit, it has become a much easier journey.

Server Upgrades

Published Jul 2, 2007

There have been a few hiccups in the last week userscripts.org as it has been moved to a new server, new http server, feeds have been deployed and a power outage.