I just got featured and I've been bombarded with messages. So when I saw SzAmmi's extension contest I decided to write a UserScript that groups messages by type. It works really well, so I thought I'd share it in case anyone wants their notifications sorted: (link)

Here's a screenshot if that helps sway ‘ya. I’d love any feedback, I know it's not perfect.

Notes: I've only tested it in Chrome and Firefox on a Mac. I think it'll work in other languages, but things won't be grammatically correct. I also haven't ever received any “alerts” so I don't know how it'll handle those notifications. They'll all be visible, even if mis-sorted.

UPDATE: It looks like it handles forum notifications very well.

Interesting idea, I might try it later.

Cool! I installed

(Now that I've got 2 replies) cool, I think it groups forum posts correctly!

Wow this is really cool! Any chance we could get it in Mega Scratch Userscript? It would make a great addition.

Yeah, that'd be awesome!

I don't really like it, it seems to make things messier.

I tweaked it so the CSS insertion code is less awful: (link)

__init__ it's just been super helpful with my situation. Any suggestions?

It's just my preference, other people might like it. I just don't like how it brings older messages up to the top. I think it should combine unread messages, for example, if five people replied to your comment chain of 10 comments since you'd last checked your messages, it would say “SomeUser and 4 others replied to your comment” rather than "SomeUser and 9 others replied to your comment. It would then de-combine them a soon as you'd left the messages page.

Ooh that's a good idea! And it shouldn't be hard to do, I'd just change the selector from the entire list to the unread list… any idea how to add MSU options so the user could toggle that?

I added the variable “notNewMessagesOnly”. When set to true (default), it'll only sort new messages. That way you can add it to the MSU settings. (link)

NickyNouse wrote:

I added the variable “notNewMessagesOnly”. When set to true (default), it'll only sort new messages. That way you can add it to the MSU settings. (link)

Cool! I'll try it out.

Added the variable “notMinimumMessagesToRun.” In case the name isn't self-explanatory, it's an integer. If the number of new messages is below this number, the script will stop running. (link)

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