💖 What it does
Check the first 20 top-level comments in a little popup dialog, by clicking the "Comments" button.
Add a new comment to that tag, and edit your own comments from within the dialog.
Load comments for all tags on the page at once with the "Load All Comments" button.
🪴 How to use it
Go into your bins:
- Click on a tag's "Comments" button in the "Manage" column.
- The top level comments are downloaded in the background and a dialog opens.
- The dialog has a "Open Comment Page" link at the bottom, so you can still get to the actual Comments page. It opens in a new tab.
- The dialog lists the first 20 previous top-level comments, and who they were posted by. It does not show any replies.
- The textbox underneath lets you post a new top-level comment to the tag.
If one of the existing comments was posted by you, you'll see an Edit button next to your name. Clicking it will load the comment text into the textbox and you can update it.
You can also choose to check all tags on the page for comments at once:
- Click the "Load All Comments" button in the header of the "Manage" column.
- This silently caches all the tags' top-level comments, but doesn't show them yet.
Compatibility with other scripts
"Comments" buttons are there by default, but if you use Action Buttons Everywhere to specify which buttons to show, and didn't select (hid) the "Comments" button, this script will force-add it back.
You should disable or delete the 'Comment on tags without leaving the bins' and 'Check for Comments from bins' scripts, because they do the same thing.
If you have the latest version of the Comment Formatting and Preview script installed, you'll get the formatting buttons above the textbox.
🐞 Known limitations
You can only see top-level comments—not whether they have replies, and you can't reply to them from within this dialog.
A note on rate limits vs. memory usage: Each tag's comments are cached in your browser, and it's only emptied when you close the tab.
- If you're working through a bin in the same tab, any tag that was checked once won't create any further pageloads, to reduce the chance that you'll be rate limited.
- But the comments cache also builds up a lot of data, and it's inherited when you open up a second tab from the first. So I highly recommend to occasionally close your wrangling tabs!
🏛️ History
- v2 - adds the Comment button as fallback if no other script added one
- v1
- view top level comments
- post new comment to tag
- edit your comments on a tag
- support for Comment Formatting script
🏅 Credit
This script was inspired by the Comment on tags without leaving the bins and Check for Comments from bins scripts. It expands on those ideas, but doesn't share any code in common.
