NationStates

NationStates++ (often shortened to 'NS++') is a tiny, light-weight, and open-source browser extension for NationStates. Focused on an easy-user experience, it is designed to simplify the NationStates game, provide players with more data and information to make educated decisions, and provide more powerful tools to interact with other players.



What Is A Browser Extension?
Browser extensions are tiny programs or apps designed to "extend" and add onto the existing features of your internet browser. All modern browsers support browser extensions, including Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.

Why No Internet Explorer Support?
Internet Explorer is not an open web browser and frequently does not support official web standards. In addition, it does not support browser extensions, and it frequently a target for malware and viruses. I suggest all Internet Explorer users upgrade to a free, modern browser, listed above.

How Do I Know This Is Safe?
You don't. While NationStates++ is an open-source browser extension, and so any developer with Javascript experience can inspect the code, that is not a guarantee of safety. Browser extensions do have an additional layer of safety, as the browser prevents addons or extensions from installing malware or harmful viruses. This layer security does not protect you from extensions that steal personal information or login information. Every program you install carries risk and relies on a certain level of trust. If you have specific concerns about safety or user security, you can telegram me or email me at Afforess [at] gmail.com for additional information.

Additional Security Notes
The Nation Puppet Switcher only stores nations & password information locally in your browser local storage. This information is never transmitted anywhere, and never leaves your computer. In addition, I do not collect or monitor sensitive personal information, not limited to but including, IP Addresses, personal names, or other identifying information.

Features

• World Assembly Details in Nation Pages
• Nation Challenge Link on Nation Pages
• Regional Newspapers
• Gameplay News
• Roleplay News
• Puppet Nation Switcher
• Scrolling Embassy Flags next to region World Factbook Entry
• Regional Message Board Searching
• Ignore Regional Message Board Posts
• Infinite Scroll/Pagination for Regional Message Board
• Real Time Panel Alerts & RMB Post Updates
• Reply-To-All in Multi-Nation telegrams
• Block Sender on Telegrams
• Linkify Telegram & RMB Post URLs
• Hidden NS Advertisements
• Scrolling World Census Lists
• Fancy Dossier
• Regional Reporting
• Forum Post Ids
• Forum Ego-Search customization
• Embedded Regional IRC Pages
• Puppet Nation Import/Export
• Remember Past Issue Choices
• Infinite Nation Happenings
• Infinite Region Happenings

Features Coming Soon

• Infinite Telegram Folders
• Alerts for Gameside Actions
• Newspaper Improvements

Version History:

Not an artist, and I don't use Chrome, but in any case +10,000,000,000 from me. Well done.

Very nice. I'm adapted to the current format by now, but might well consider switching to it in the future.

Bookmarking this thread either way for future reference.

Yes! Now I can see deleted posts in the RMB! Well done

Sweet how well does it work so far?

To these things only apply to the RMBs?

Afforess wrote: I would be happy to gift you the postmaster-general upgrade.

what if you already have it?

Benomia wrote:To these things only apply to the RMBs?

Correct. Don't take my word for it, see the code: https://github.com/Afforess/NationState ... t.json#L10

It only has permission to execute on pages with "http://www.nationstates.net/region=*"

I realize users might be worried about me stealing telegrams, etc. I kept the code open source to ensure that that sort of behavior is obviously not happening.

I would be very interested in something that allows you to see deleted forum posts, but great work nevertheless.

Benomia wrote:I would be very interested in something that allows you to see deleted forum posts, but great work nevertheless.

There only reason viewing deleted RMB posts works is because NationStates lets us (I think it's a hidden moderator feature), but the forums don't have that feature, so it's not possible.

Shit.

Afforess wrote:There only reason viewing deleted RMB posts works is because NationStates lets us (I think it's a hidden moderator feature)

Mods can view all suppressed posts, but it's supposed to be only us. I know there's a URL workaround, but that's a bug that ought to be closed. Don't be surprised if it suddenly stops working.

Frisbeeteria wrote:

Afforess wrote:There only reason viewing deleted RMB posts works is because NationStates lets us (I think it's a hidden moderator feature)

Mods can view all suppressed posts, but it's supposed to be only us. I know there's a URL workaround, but that's a bug that ought to be closed. Don't be surprised if it suddenly stops working.

Half of the reason I wrote this was to provide more "attention" to that feature. I'm sure plenty of nations are surprised to discover self-deleted posts are available to the public.

Afforess wrote:-snip-
Half of the reason I wrote this was to provide more "attention" to that feature. I'm sure plenty of nations are surprised to discover self-deleted posts are available to the public.

So that the loophole would be closed?

Anyway, nice work.

Notes/complaints/etc: (I only do this because what you've made is so awesome)

- Infinite scroll only seems to work for me when I'm in 100+% zoom. I like to spend my life peering short-sightedly at 90% zoom for most sites, so this causes an issue. I can work around it, but pretty please?

- Quoting a post should leave a single newline below the quote, and have the cursor placed there ready to type. Especially if I've infinite-scrolled down the page, clicking on the link doesn't actually appear to do anything - it's only when I go back up to the top that I realise I've got fifteen quotes from the same person because I clicked the link too many times.

- (screenshot) The placement of the "quote" link is slightly too low on my computer, and it looks slightly odd. Having said that, it looks horrible when mixed with a suppressed post. Does a suppressed post really need to have the quote link? I'm not really going to quote it until I've read it, maybe upon unsuppressing might be a better time to insert the link.

- Move the "switch to forum view" button to the top. I don't know if anyone would use it with NS++, but if they did it's currently impossible to get at because infinite scroll kicks in before you can get to it.

- Speaking of forum view, it would be nice if you could add quote and unsuppression links there as well. Again, I don't know if they'd be used, but it's a completeness thing, right?

I feel somewhat harsh, the fact remains that my knowledge of javascript essentially extends to knowing that it's the thing that makes websites do stuff and so I can scarcely criticise you for something I could never have done. Indeed, as it stands this is a fantastic extension that I will certainly be using, so thank you very much.

Tlik wrote:Notes/complaints/etc: (I only do this because what you've made is so awesome)

No, your post is the most useful in this thread. Don't feel bad!

Tlik wrote:- Infinite scroll only seems to work for me when I'm in 100+% zoom. I like to spend my life peering short-sightedly at 90% zoom for most sites, so this causes an issue. I can work around it, but pretty please?

Yep, should be fixed.

Tlik wrote:- Quoting a post should leave a single newline below the quote, and have the cursor placed there ready to type. Especially if I've infinite-scrolled down the page, clicking on the link doesn't actually appear to do anything - it's only when I go back up to the top that I realise I've got fifteen quotes from the same person because I clicked the link too many times.

Alright, I updated it to scroll up to the post form.

Tlik wrote:- (screenshot) The placement of the "quote" link is slightly too low on my computer, and it looks slightly odd. Having said that, it looks horrible when mixed with a suppressed post. Does a suppressed post really need to have the quote link? I'm not really going to quote it until I've read it, maybe upon unsuppressing might be a better time to insert the link.

I agree. I've made that change, "Quote" no longer shows for suppressed posts.

Tlik wrote:- Move the "switch to forum view" button to the top. I don't know if anyone would use it with NS++, but if they did it's currently impossible to get at because infinite scroll kicks in before you can get to it.

Alright done.

Tlik wrote:- Speaking of forum view, it would be nice if you could add quote and unsuppression links there as well. Again, I don't know if they'd be used, but it's a completeness thing, right?

I was actually inspired to add infinite scroll when I discovered the forum view (never noticed it until a few days ago). I want to add these features to it eventually, but it's different enough that it means another evening or two of work to do. Maybe next weekend?

Tlik wrote:I feel somewhat harsh, the fact remains that my knowledge of javascript essentially extends to knowing that it's the thing that makes websites do stuff and so I can scarcely criticise you for something I could never have done. Indeed, as it stands this is a fantastic extension that I will certainly be using, so thank you very much.

No, thank you for taking the time to test it out. My changes should appear automatically for you, there is no update process

Afforess wrote:

Tlik wrote:- Move the "switch to forum view" button to the top. I don't know if anyone would use it with NS++, but if they did it's currently impossible to get at because infinite scroll kicks in before you can get to it.

Alright done.

Not really. I think you've hardcoded Capitalist Paradise's link into the javascript file, at least that's what the GitHub files show. But otherwise, that's brilliant.

Tlik wrote:I feel somewhat harsh, the fact remains that my knowledge of javascript essentially extends to knowing that it's the thing that makes websites do stuff and so I can scarcely criticise you for something I could never have done. Indeed, as it stands this is a fantastic extension that I will certainly be using, so thank you very much.

No, thank you for taking the time to test it out. My changes should appear automatically for you, there is no update process

Everything else works perfectly, thank you so very much for this.

Tlik wrote:

Afforess wrote:
Alright done.

Not really. I think you've hardcoded Capitalist Paradise's link into the javascript file, at least that's what the GitHub files show. But otherwise, that's brilliant.

Ha! That'll teach me to test. Should be corrected.

That's me in the picture

FireFox users rejoice, I have ported the addon to FireFox as well!

Finally I can get it for my main browser as well.

New Feature:

• New RMB posts appear in your page automatically. No more refreshing!

Unable to find the extension on Firefox using your link.

The Republic of Lanos wrote:Unable to find the extension on Firefox using your link.

It got taken down from the Firefox store. Apparently they are much more strict than the Chrome web store, I will make needed changes later today and attempt to get it back. Until then, I replaced it with a temporary direct link.

What did they take it down for? Lemme guess, being a port?