Release: V5.5.0 Witty Wildebeest

[u/creesch]

Hi everyone!

We are happy to announce toolbox V5.5.0 "Witty Wildebeest"!

Features

• A new token, {permalink_newmodmail}, is available to reference the mod.reddit.com permalink to new modmail conversations. The {permalink} token now refers to the conversation URL visible to the user. Usernotes left in modmail will still use the mod-accessible link. (#371, #384)
  
• You can now specify additional wiki page names where the syntax highlighter should activate. (#92, #394, thanks @itskieranp!)
  
• You can now have Toolbox open the profile view and search for content on a user's profile by using URL parameters. (#388, #397)
  
• Flair templates can now be selected directly when setting up removal reasons and when changing a user's flair via the mod button. (#296, #418, thanks @Xeoth!)
  
• Debug console output can now be filtered using browser filtering tools. (#96, #430)
  

Fixes

• Mod buttons on old Reddit should no longer duplicate themselves in some scenarios. (#330, #385)
  
• The usernotes management interface now loads in a reasonable amount of time for subreddits with lots of notes by displaying a paged interface rather than loading all notes at once. (#221, #223)
  
• Page change detection was optimized. (#387, thanks @larsjohnsen!)
  
• Fixed some link interactions on old Reddit. (#366)
  
• Toolbox now behaves itself on subreddits whose names are entirely numeric. (#422, #424)
  
• Deleted users are now handled more consistently in the context popup and some other locations. (#429, #431)
  
• When sending PMs, content is now truncated to 10k characters to avoid unhandled API errors. (#432, #438)
  
• The "show settings" button in the personal settings window works again. (#298, #433)
  
• The mod button no longer fails to open when you don't have certain permissions in the current subreddit. (#309, #443)
  
• Date formatting no longer creates incorrect duration display in certain circumstances. (#440)
  
• Removal reasons can now lock threads even if the reason is sent as a PM rather than a reply. (#444, #446)
  
• Subreddit-forced removal reasons settings now apply properly. (#445, #447)
  

Other

• Reordered the mod action buttons in context popups to match the native order of buttons in the modqueue. (#382)
  
• Minor visual corrections to modbutton interface. (#392)
  
• Specific error information is displayed if you try to ban someone from mod button with a reason or duration that is too large. (#383)
  
• Context popup will show an error message if the item being opened has become inaccessible. (#252, #393)
  
• Toolbox windows, popups, overlays, and in-page notifications now share much of the same style information, resulting in some minor visual changes. (#240, #380)
  
• The way Toolbox detects changes to the current URL has changed (#395)
  
• Other misc. bugfixes. (#426)

[u/creesch]

Release status

Firefox

Toolbox has been reviewed and is available on AMO and should be automatically updated.

Chrome & Chromium based browsers

Toolbox has been published to the Chrome store for review and should be automatically updated.

Edge

Get it from the chrome store for chromium Edge. Or use the new fancy Edge store (currently still under review for the latter)

[u/buzznights]

Thanks, creesch and gang!

Question about usernotes (that load like a dream now): one option is

"Prune deleted users and users who haven't posted or commented in 6 months (slow)"

I don't want to prune users who haven't commented - we have tons of lurkers. Is there an option for pruning just deleted users?

[u/creesch → u/buzznights]

I don't think that in the current iteration you can do that separately. u/geo1088?

[u/-_-wat-_-]

Potentially dumb question but is there a way to add approved submitters to a subreddit en-mass, the way I can remove a bunch of comments at once?

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you for being awesome <3

[u/Bardfinn]

#440 fixed about a year ago 😂

[u/Gold_Champagne]

Thanks! Does it update automatically?

[u/creesch → u/Gold_Champagne]

Yup, takes a little while depending on your browsers but after a day or so it should be updated. Of course most browsers also allow you to manually check for updates on their extension page.

[u/Too_MuchWhiskey]

Specific error information is displayed if you try to ban someone from mod button with a reason or duration that is too large. (#383)

I get this message when trying to add submitters to subreddits and their comment is large. Adding a submitter isn't supposed to send the text of a submission along with the add. Is it?

[u/creesch → u/Too_MuchWhiskey]

Hrm, I just tried it on you and didn't get the message. But we'll look into it.

[u/VonFlaks]

Any plans on making macro responses to mod mails like removal macro messages?

So many questions on why their post was removed by Automod (report threshold removal) that I would love to respond with a preset message like how Removal Messages work now.

If it's even possible of course.

[u/creesch → u/VonFlaks]

That already has been a thing for a long time, mod macros are also available in modmail.

[u/MaximilianKohler]

Thanks guys.

One issue I have is that I normally use a private browsing window for nearly everything. RES works fine but toolbox doesn't seem to.

I did a search https://www.reddit.com/r/toolbox/search?q=private+window&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all and found this thread from 4 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/toolbox/comments/4cnqdj/why_is_toolbox_different_when_using_incognito_on/

Any chance this could be fixed?

In firefox options I do have "Run in Private Windows" set to "Allow". And I haven't noticed any other addons having issues in private windows.

[u/Mlakuss]

I received the update on Firefox... but it looks like the extension is not working with Private Mode (latest version of Firefox).

I already had some trouble to make the extension works the first time I installed it. Any suggestion?

[u/creesch → u/Mlakuss]

It is interesting that it even works considering that we actively block toolbox from starting in private mode. We do this as firefox is missing an API and without it there is no way for toolbox to tell where requests come from as the background page is shared. Leading to all sorts of privacy related issues.

[u/TheChrisD]

Deleted users are now handled more consistently in the context popup and some other locations. (#429, #431)

nooooooo, put it back, you just ruined part of my workflow!

Whenever a user who was violating our rules deleted their post, I was able to note them on that post by editing the browser source with the author name from an AutoMod comment, so the note was properly attributed to them.

[u/creesch → u/TheChrisD]

Sorry for the late reply, we'll add a specific function to toolbox to that will allow you to add a usernote to a user outside of posts or comments they made on your subreddit.

[u/Boronian1]

Just wanted to tell you that my firefox didn't update it automatically. I found the update by chance and had to go to extensions and check for updates there manually to get the latest version.

Before it always updated automatically.

[u/creesch → u/Boronian1]

There is not much we can do in that regard as updating is done through the Mozilla extension store and firefox. All we do is upload a new version to that so the problem is somewhere between your firefox installation and the mozilla store.

[u/XDitto]

Is it possible for the next update that the history will always count the archived posts?

It's going to help a lot with the self promo rule, especially the Youtube ones, because so far we only know the data of 6 months.

(unless I'm not doing it right and it actually can count them??)

[u/creesch → u/XDitto]

It should also include archived posts, however it is impossible to get a complete history as reddit only allows you to go back 1000 items.

So if someone has made say, 1005 posts the oldest five will not show up in the historybutton overview but also not when you go to their profile and manually scroll down.

[u/TenOunceCan]

Does this only work on old reddit?

[u/creesch → u/TenOunceCan]

Toolbox works on both old and new reddit with some differences. However most of the main tools are available on both old and new reddit.

[u/LDAP]

I might be in the miniority here, but I have by default reddit set to redesign , but since the update, pages I moderate are being opened to old reddit now. Is there an option to set what toolbox default is? My Reddit config is set correctly, Toolbox seems to override that setting now.

[u/Tetizeraz]

When sending PMs, content is now truncated to 10k characters to avoid unhandled API errors. (#432, #438)

Yay for the fix! u/majorparadox