reddit-moderator-toolbox VS pako

Thanks for the report - this looks like it's been bugged for a while but wasn't seen until now because our handling of relative dates wasn't activating consistently until a fix in v6.1.5. I've made another fix and it'll be included in our next release.

Another area of impact is Toolbox For Reddit. Toolbox is a browser extension that adds a huge amount of moderation features that quite simply does not exist on any version of Reddit - mobile, desktop (new) or desktop (old). Without Toolbox our ability to moderate efficiently is gone. While Toolbox will not be immediately impacted by these changes, there are signs of negative change for the long term.

While a lot of people see me and toolbox as one and the same thing, many different people contributed over the years and the project itself is not going away.

I'm not sure if you realize that you're being a whiny little shit to one of the (two, I believe) developers of Toolbox, which is what makes most Reddit moderation practicable.

Some of the active mods (including myself) use variety of 3rd party tools, such as r/toolbox and r/enhancement for effective moderation. I heavily rely on these tools (plus RiF, a 3rd party app that is going to close on 30 June) to moderate between three Alhaitham subreddits. While both developers indicated that they are working with Reddit to keep their tools going, I do not know how long their viability will be for. Reddit is sending a signal that third parties are not welcome and we are concerned for their future viability.

For sure, and I haven't moderated in a few years so perhaps the internal reddit tools have improved since I last used them. They used to be pretty basic and cruddy. The moderation team I was a part of relied pretty heavily on the moderator toolbox:

https://github.com/toolbox-team/reddit-moderator-toolbox

I don't know if the proposed API changes will affect this specific tool, but I doubt moderators would be nearly as up in arms if their tools were going to keep working the way they had in the past.

Since Reddit first launched its Data API in 2008, we’ve seen thousands of fantastic applications built: tools to make moderation easier, utilities that help users stay up to date on their favorite topics, or (my personal favorite) this thing that helps convert helpful figures into useless ones. Our APIs have also provided third parties with access to data to build user utilities, research, games, and mod bots.

The /r/vfx mod team use a variety of 3rd party apps and plugins, both as users of reddit and as moderators. I could not use reddit today without old.reddit.com , RES / Reddit Enhancement Suite , Toolbox and more importantly Relay for Reddit on my phone (where 80%+ of my reddit'ing gets done)! The death of these services means the death of reddit, for me. And for other members of the mod team.

When I started out with toolbox I barely knew JavaScript, let alone how browser extensions work. So feel free to have a look at our issues, also take a look at our contributor guidelines and hit us up on discord.

try pako

A trick I've used on top of serializing JSON in the URL is in-browser compression with a library like pako [0] (zlib in JavaScript). This helps you get more data in before you reach the browser limit for URL length.

[0] https://github.com/nodeca/pako

Another operation that is sometimes desired is to take several files and give the user a compressed file. There are actually a surprisingly large amount (jszip, pako) of client side options here, but my favorite so far when it comes to speed, size and working with .zip has been fflate. But if you'd like to work with other formats, there are also libraries to decompress 7-Zip, RAR & TAR.

I used monaco-editor for the code-editor, esbuild and rollup as bundler and treeshaker respectively, pako as a js port of the zlib and gzip libraries, pretty-bytes to convert the gzip size to human readable values, and countapi-js to keep track of the number of page visits, in a private and secure way.

Just wanted to let you know the most current version of pako does not work with the example on the wiki page. It errors out with "unknown compression format". I had to use the version found in Toolbox lib folder in order to get the example from the wiki page to work.

Uncompressing should be straightforward with pako.js.