Why require an email address? You could just send them to the forum. After all, it's not required if you go directly to the forum and make the same request here.
I felt restriction style requests to registers users is not fair. We have a lot of users that don't want to register, but can give us valuable input as to which themes or websites we should be creating styles for. The end objective here is to get you guys as much data as possible for creating styles with the highest likelihood to become popular.
I'd love if @import directives were enabled, as long as they're loaded asynchronously, and then cached for as long as the cache-control headers say so.
Idea: From the manage all styles page/window. An easy option to backup ALL styles (active and disabled) to external file. Set the path and maybe allow auto option per X days/weeks. And also option to overwrite one same file, or create new backup each time _v0001, _v0002, etc.
Also, maybe an auto backup of all styles just before updating the add-on and marking it so (preup_DATE_v001), just in case the add-on update breaks and you panic all is lost...
Very important to have these I think. Using a lot of styles this is a must.
What does everyone else think, and Justin ????
I use Opera latest, so some love there would be good. Although for the time being I use the Chrome add-on version. Regular updating the Opera add-on will be good.
Can we get a mass backup feature which exports/imports all styles in a zip/tar? It would be really helpful when switching between devices.
Also can we increase the size limit on styles from 100kb? I'm pretty sure most people aren't even aware of the 100kb max size on styles because it's hard to reach.
Can we get a mass backup feature which exports/imports all styles in a zip/tar? It would be really helpful when switching between devices.
Funny, I recall that a few years back, Stylish for Maxthon browser already had this functionality. So weird that such a useful feature only ever made it into a version for such an obscure browser.
Also can we increase the size limit on styles from 100kb? I'm pretty sure most people aren't even aware of the 100kb max size on styles because it's hard to reach.
Justin put it on the "to do" list at Trello. You'd think this'd be an easy one to get done.
Idea: From the manage all styles page/window. An easy option to backup ALL styles (active and disabled) to external file. Set the path and maybe allow auto option per X days/weeks. And also option to overwrite one same file, or create new backup each time _v0001, _v0002, etc.
Also, maybe an auto backup of all styles just before updating the add-on and marking it so (preup_DATE_v001), just in case the add-on update breaks and you panic all is lost...
Very important to have these I think. Using a lot of styles this is a must.
What does everyone else think, and Justin ????
I use Opera latest, so some love there would be good. Although for the time being I use the Chrome add-on version. Regular updating the Opera add-on will be good.
Idea: It'd be really nice to be able to organize styles in custom groups on the personal dashboard, but they shouldn't appear to others. After some time, it's possible to have so many of them to need this feature xD
It looks like this is the place to request new features, so I'll comment here (I understand why the Trello board is locked down so that the public can't add cards: it would rapidly get out of control).
Make it easy for users to script creators to "clone" an existing style so that a new version can be tested without losing the original.
Make it easy to open the editor for an installed style directly from the soon-to-be-useful-again "Installed Styles" tab
These functions could be added without disturbing the excessively minimalist extension pull-down by adding a pop-up for each script item:
It looks like this is the place to request new features, so I'll comment here (I understand why the Trello board is locked down so that the public can't add cards: it would rapidly get out of control).
Make it easy for users to script creators to "clone" an existing style so that a new version can be tested without losing the original.
Make it easy to open the editor for an installed style directly from the soon-to-be-useful-again "Installed Styles" tab
These functions could be added without disturbing the excessively minimalist extension pull-down by adding a pop-up for each script item:
I like the 'clone' idea. Will add it to Trello. Regarding your second suggestion - can you check the extension again? All of these functionalities are there, you just need to hover on the installed styles and you see 'edit', 'disable/enable' and 'delete', just as before. The only thing that changed is the UI. If you have suggestions on improving these, I'd be happy to hear them.
I like the 'clone' idea. Will add it to Trello. Regarding your second suggestion - can you check the extension again? All of these functionalities are there, you just need to hover on the installed styles and you see 'edit', 'disable/enable' and 'delete', just as before. The only thing that changed is the UI. If you have suggestions on improving these, I'd be happy to hear them.
As my earlier comment (on a different thread) noted, I see no installed styles in the pop-up, so there's nothing over which to hover: just "All Styles" with an ON/OFF toggle, then a big blank space of nothing, even when the Stylish icon shows that I've got numerous scripts in effect on a page:
I assume that, as I mocked up above, there are supposed to be scripts listed in the blank area on the pop-up?
Just another idea: In userstyle info page, have an history of usertstles versions (like in greasyfork) so we can install an older version to compare things or backup
[Idea] It will be cool to have an possibility to report to the admin a very old styles (on userstyles.org), that are not updated for years and they are already outdated and should be deleted, to keep userstyles.org as clean as it is possible.
The only thing that changed is the UI. If you have suggestions on improving these, I'd be happy to hear them.
Like others, I would prefer a more compact layout for the list of installed styles, such as I mocked up above: a simple list with an always-visible control for enabling/disabling each and a quick and obvious affordance for getting at secondary controls like edit, delete, or clone.
I see what you were aiming at with the miniature screen shots, but I (and, evidently, others) don't need that. If it persists in the UI, I will definitely be making (or finding/modifying) a userstyle, such as the one already released by @hideheader, to get rid of the useless screenshots and expose the useful controls in a compact format.
I have read a lot of the feedback since 1.6.x, and it is very clear to me as a user experience professional that the vast majority of users want a return to a simple, compact, and intuitable interface.
As a designer, I can empathize that it's frustrating that your improvements to this highly popular add-on were not viewed as improvements by we users. But we users are the only ones that count. Regardless of how sweet it is for you to lovingly promote your wife as some sort of super UI genius, the users have spoken: I have provided a "fscking awesome" (thanks, @hippyjake) simplified UI that I proposed above.
[...] I am wanting a site feature that even though I have the style installed, I can have a button to reinstall the style instead of having to uninstall the style so that userstyles.org can detect I don't have the style installed already.
[...] Immediately after you install a style, the button turns blue and indicates that the style is installed. If you want to change an option and update (reinstall), you need to reload the page first. [...]
Lets not forget having some new back up options added to the manage page. Maybe even create your own dark theme Jason, rather than us having to run a style (as shown below).
Some backup options to auto backup every X days. And to over write the same file or create increments v000, v001, etc. All from the manage page. So all our styles are safe, inc our own custom styles.
And a restore function that holds the last days styles in case the current lot fail. An emergency restore option that cannot be corrupted if the current days styles fail for what ever reason, browser update, profile corruption or new add-on version etc.
All on the manage styles page.
PS. Opera is still flashing up the original website theme on page open or refresh. Its like Stylish is not working fast enough to style the page. Is this something with the new v42.xx Opera or the add-on.
Idea: Increase max limit to screenshot (GIF, PNG, or JPG) at least
This would be great! Or maybe allow external sourcing of pictures. That would solve size issues.
Seconded. It's really, really hard to upload anything with such a small maximum size. Even when restricting the color palette and using compressors sometimes I end up requiring to crop or resize the previews because I can't get them under the limit.
Can we get a mass backup feature which exports/imports all styles in a zip/tar? It would be really helpful when switching between devices.
Same as above plus more. Specially useful for restoring local styles. And this takes me to the feature request I came here for:
I've got many local styles that I can't upload to userstyles.org due to the for me incomprehensible SFW policy. This is specially vexing as Stylish doesn't import from files and you have to go to the page, create a new style and then download the backup file, open it and paste the contents into the extension.
My request is to fix that big issue and add a file import. Ideally the best would be to be able to select a bunch of CSS files, in Mozilla format, and drop them into the style manager for them to be imported.
If required for safety reasons, I would also display a "Are you sure you want to import these external files" etc prompt to the user, in order to avoid any responsibility for anything that goes wrong by using it.
Idea: Increase max limit to screenshot (GIF, PNG, or JPG) at least
This would be great! Or maybe allow external sourcing of pictures. That would solve size issues.
Seconded. It's really, really hard to upload anything with such a small maximum size. Even when restricting the color palette and using compressors sometimes I end up requiring to crop or resize the previews because I can't get them under the limit.
It's not hard to optimize/lower the quality of the image. On windows you can use paint.net or equivalent program on other OS. If that is too hard for you, try an online image optimizer. I often use ezgif, it can optimize gif, png, and jpg. In jpg click the option to restrict the file size to 200kb, but make sure the output is below 200k, you might need to enter a smaller value to do that (like 199, 198, etc..) This will strip out all unnecessary data and lower file size, all with retaining as much of the quality as possible.
It's not hard to optimize/lower the quality of the image. On windows you can use paint.net or equivalent program on other OS. If that is too hard for you, try an online image optimizer. I often use ezgif, it can optimize gif, png, and jpg. In jpg click the option to restrict the file size to 200kb, but make sure the output is below 200k, you might need to enter a smaller value to do that (like 199, 198, etc..) This will strip out all unnecessary data and lower file size, all with retaining as much of the quality as possible.
I use this beast that usually reduces image size 85~95% and yet sometimes that's not enough for the image to fall under the limit so I beg to differ.
It's not hard to optimize/lower the quality of the image. On windows you can use paint.net or equivalent program on other OS. If that is too hard for you, try an online image optimizer. I often use ezgif, it can optimize gif, png, and jpg. In jpg click the option to restrict the file size to 200kb, but make sure the output is below 200k, you might need to enter a smaller value to do that (like 199, 198, etc..) This will strip out all unnecessary data and lower file size, all with retaining as much of the quality as possible.
I use this beast that usually reduces image size 85~95% and yet sometimes that's not enough for the image to fall under the limit so I beg to differ.
You can't really compress a colorful png image, pngs are meant to be lossless. If you save the picture as jpg and compress you will start to see some degrading in quality if you compare them really carefully, but it will look just fine. Here's one example (this is not my desktop btw, mine's a lot worse): I've started with this image (1920x1080) saved as png - 2.3 MB - http://i.cubeupload.com/1Maosr.png Then I went and compressed it with tinypng. And I got this: http://i.cubeupload.com/5O4An2.png (518KB), you can see some of the colors changed a bit... That doesn't happen with ezgif, it compresses losslessly so at the end it could have bigger size (I got about 1.1MB). I tried the one you gave me and got a size of 635KB, again, some of the colors changed. Compressing png multiple times is futile since compression is done losslesly, nontheless I tried it multiple times with tinypng and it did drive the size down further but not much, after a couple of more tries and it didn't compress anymore (I got it down to about 450KB btw, the quality was degrading too).
But I agree, the size limit should be increased since bigger screenshots will need to lose quality even more to get it below 200KB... For now we are stuck with what we have, that is, either do this tedious process, or just use smaller images (cropped). So when (and if) the file size limit is increased to at least 500KB (), we should celebrate :P. But say 4K images would probably need more (so how about 1-2MB?). But then there's the problem with the server load, so how much is too much?.
We just have to wait and see. Hopefully something good will come out of this
Would be great to have local styles "synced" to our Google account, so no matter what workstation we might be using, as long as we're signed in to that account via Chrome's "People" menu, our styles would be in Stylish. I redo my system about every 4 weeks so I can freshly install several applications in trial mode. Once I get Chrome set up again my extensions all sync up, but Stylish is "empty". :-(
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Makes sense?
Also, maybe an auto backup of all styles just before updating the add-on and marking it so (preup_DATE_v001), just in case the add-on update breaks and you panic all is lost...
Very important to have these I think. Using a lot of styles this is a must.
What does everyone else think, and Justin ????
I use Opera latest, so some love there would be good. Although for the time being I use the Chrome add-on version. Regular updating the Opera add-on will be good.
Also can we increase the size limit on styles from 100kb? I'm pretty sure most people aren't even aware of the 100kb max size on styles because it's hard to reach.
I'd also like an option to search styles by name (in the extension). I have so many it's nearly impossible to find them.
- Make it easy for users to script creators to "clone" an existing style so that a new version can be tested without losing the original.
- Make it easy to open the editor for an installed style directly from the soon-to-be-useful-again "Installed Styles" tab
These functions could be added without disturbing the excessively minimalist extension pull-down by adding a pop-up for each script item:Regarding your second suggestion - can you check the extension again? All of these functionalities are there, you just need to hover on the installed styles and you see 'edit', 'disable/enable' and 'delete', just as before. The only thing that changed is the UI. If you have suggestions on improving these, I'd be happy to hear them.
The mock-up by land is fscking awesome!
I assume that, as I mocked up above, there are supposed to be scripts listed in the blank area on the pop-up?
In userstyle info page, have an history of usertstles versions (like in greasyfork)
so we can install an older version to compare things or backup
It will be cool to have an possibility to report to the admin a very old styles (on userstyles.org), that are not updated for years and they are already outdated and should be deleted, to keep userstyles.org as clean as it is possible.
I see what you were aiming at with the miniature screen shots, but I (and, evidently, others) don't need that. If it persists in the UI, I will definitely be making (or finding/modifying) a userstyle, such as the one already released by @hideheader, to get rid of the useless screenshots and expose the useful controls in a compact format.
I have read a lot of the feedback since 1.6.x, and it is very clear to me as a user experience professional that the vast majority of users want a return to a simple, compact, and intuitable interface.
As a designer, I can empathize that it's frustrating that your improvements to this highly popular add-on were not viewed as improvements by we users. But we users are the only ones that count. Regardless of how sweet it is for you to lovingly promote your wife as some sort of super UI genius, the users have spoken: I have provided a "fscking awesome" (thanks, @hippyjake) simplified UI that I proposed above.
https://userstyles.org/styles/133743/userstyles-updating-without-reloading-the-page
Some backup options to auto backup every X days. And to over write the same file or create increments v000, v001, etc. All from the manage page. So all our styles are safe, inc our own custom styles.
And a restore function that holds the last days styles in case the current lot fail. An emergency restore option that cannot be corrupted if the current days styles fail for what ever reason, browser update, profile corruption or new add-on version etc.
All on the manage styles page.
PS. Opera is still flashing up the original website theme on page open or refresh. Its like Stylish is not working fast enough to style the page. Is this something with the new v42.xx Opera or the add-on.
I've got many local styles that I can't upload to userstyles.org due to the for me incomprehensible SFW policy. This is specially vexing as Stylish doesn't import from files and you have to go to the page, create a new style and then download the backup file, open it and paste the contents into the extension.
My request is to fix that big issue and add a file import. Ideally the best would be to be able to select a bunch of CSS files, in Mozilla format, and drop them into the style manager for them to be imported.
If required for safety reasons, I would also display a "Are you sure you want to import these external files" etc prompt to the user, in order to avoid any responsibility for anything that goes wrong by using it.
Regards,
MetalTxus.
On windows you can use paint.net or equivalent program on other OS.
If that is too hard for you, try an online image optimizer. I often use ezgif, it can optimize gif, png, and jpg.
In jpg click the option to restrict the file size to 200kb, but make sure the output is below 200k, you might need to enter a smaller value to do that (like 199, 198, etc..)
This will strip out all unnecessary data and lower file size, all with retaining as much of the quality as possible. Has been suggested many times before. I'd like to say it's coming though..
But we will have to wait and see.
Here's one example (this is not my desktop btw, mine's a lot worse):
I've started with this image (1920x1080) saved as png - 2.3 MB - http://i.cubeupload.com/1Maosr.png
Then I went and compressed it with tinypng.
And I got this: http://i.cubeupload.com/5O4An2.png (518KB), you can see some of the colors changed a bit... That doesn't happen with ezgif, it compresses losslessly so at the end it could have bigger size (I got about 1.1MB).
I tried the one you gave me and got a size of 635KB, again, some of the colors changed.
Compressing png multiple times is futile since compression is done losslesly, nontheless I tried it multiple times with tinypng and it did drive the size down further but not much, after a couple of more tries and it didn't compress anymore (I got it down to about 450KB btw, the quality was degrading too).
Then I saved the image as jpg.
Right off the bat we start with a smaller size, ~1.3MB.
http://i.cubeupload.com/pXDSIJ.jpg
Then I used the one you linked to compress the image,
ended up with 354KB - http://i.cubeupload.com/SwuGGr.jpg - tinypng got about the same result
Then I used ezgif to get the file size below 200KB.
This is the end result (198KB) - http://i.cubeupload.com/zhoGFa.jpg
So to get smaller files, save as jpg, and then http://compressjpeg.com/ in combination with http://ezgif.com/optimize you can get the size below 200KB..
But I agree, the size limit should be increased since bigger screenshots will need to lose quality even more to get it below 200KB...
For now we are stuck with what we have, that is, either do this tedious process, or just use smaller images (cropped).
So when (and if) the file size limit is increased to at least 500KB (), we should celebrate :P.
But say 4K images would probably need more (so how about 1-2MB?). But then there's the problem with the server load, so how much is too much?.
We just have to wait and see. Hopefully something good will come out of this