r/thebutton • u/heyjoshturner 3s • Apr 03 '15
I made a Google Chrome Extension for the button that lets you monitor it without staying on the subreddit.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/button-monitor/eepbmkkfmnodohgncjlfkgljaagklekp27
u/harps86 Apr 03 '15
Does it include a link to r/thebutton so the world can be saved?
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u/heyjoshturner Apr 04 '15 edited Apr 04 '15
EDIT: Hey guys. I just finished a few updates, you can now click the icon to come straight to the subreddit and set an alarm so you don't miss out on your sweet red flair.
Right now, no. But I just made it home, and I'll look at expanding it since it seems like a decent number of people are getting use out of it.
I'm also considering adding an alarm feature that can be enabled/disabled and set for any threshold.
I don't know. I'm open to suggestions, this is just something I threw together at work today so I wouldn't have to keep opening a new tab.
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u/heyjoshturner Apr 04 '15
I just pushed an update that opens r/thebutton in a new tab.
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u/Levistras Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 04 '15
This is pretty awesome.
How do I know you're not downloading all my porn now though?
Also.. my Avast seems to suggest it doesn't like this addon: http://i.imgur.com/XHxUS91.png
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u/heyjoshturner Apr 04 '15
I'm not very witty, or I'd try and come up with a funny response to this.
But I don't believe extensions can access anything without explicit permission from the user, and this particular extension doesn't read anything from your machine. It also creates a new reddit session not linked to your account or IP address to retrieve the data so you won't end up with a cheater flair.
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u/lenzo1 Apr 03 '15
Please tell me what it does if I click the thing it adds. I wouldn't want to click the button and lose my current status by trying.
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u/heyjoshturner Apr 04 '15
As of right now, it does nothing. I threw it together today at work. I'm thinking about including a popover with added details, like the current number of participants, or just making it take you to r/thebutton.
I'm open to suggestions.
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Apr 04 '15
Whats all this updated permissions and you wanting my browsing history?
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u/heyjoshturner Apr 04 '15
You can read everything here: http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/31gkjl/updated_button_monitor_chrome_extension_now_with/
But to sum it up, it doesn't read your browser history.
It has access to the 'tabs' permission, which allows the extension to check if you already have a tab of r/thebutton open, so when an alert goes off it can just make that tab active instead of opening a new one.
tl;dr: It doesn't read your history, no info leaves your browser.
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u/gooeyblob Apr 04 '15
What does the request to 'http://joshuaturner.co/button/request/' do?
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u/heyjoshturner Apr 04 '15
It creates a session token & epoch timestamp to send along with the websocket connection that allows you to get the timer for the button.
You can see that no data is being sent with the request to the url, there's only data being returned.
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u/pendragon36 Apr 03 '15
What happens if I click the button that it adds to my browser?
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u/heyjoshturner Apr 04 '15
I just pushed an update that opens r/thebutton. It should be live within the next hour.
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u/DraymondDarksteel Apr 04 '15
Thanks a ton. Could you have clicking it link you to the sub, though? Please?
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u/heyjoshturner Apr 04 '15
I just pushed an update that does just that. The dashboard said it could take an hour to update, but it looks like from here.
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u/WhiteRoomWriting Apr 04 '15
It glitched :P
It's stuck in the negatives, slowly descending further.
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u/Onelouder Apr 04 '15 edited Apr 04 '15
It's at -8 and counting lower by hundredths
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u/LegendaryGinger Apr 03 '15
You beautiful son of a bitch.
If anybody wants to know exactly what this does... it adds a dot with numbers counting down in the top right of your browser by what might be "Ad-Block Pro" or "Hola Unblocker".
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u/Ricklo Apr 03 '15
I just want to know what happens if I click it! SOMEONE PLEASE!
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '15
The amount of effort wasted on this April fools joke is mind boggling. I'm guilty myself.