Figured I’d cobble together a quick-n-dirty greasemonkey/tapermonkey script to slighly modify the CSS to feel a little more like old.reddit with RES. Still not quite as compact as I’d like, but it’s getting there.

**edit/update: **

changelog

  • All future versions on github: https://github.com/soundjester/lemmy_monkey/
  • v0.4 - reformatted to remove greater-than signs; added observer to catch and reformat new comments;
  • v0.3 - added script to move the comment collapse button to be in front of user name (thanks @DarkwingDuck); tightened up the code, removed unneeded function call.
  • v0.2 - modified to work on any lemmy instance (thank you, God!)
// ==UserScript==
// @name         Lemmy to Old.Reddit Re-format (Observer)
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.4
// @description  Reformat widescreen desktop to look more like Reddit
// @author       mershed_perderders, DarkwingDuck
// @match        https://*/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
	'use strict';

	var isLemmy = document.head.querySelector("[name~=Description][content]").content === "Lemmy";

	function GM_addStyle(css) {
		const style = document.getElementById("GM_addStyleBy8626") || (function() {
			const style = document.createElement('style');
			style.type = 'text/css';
			style.id = "GM_addStyleBy8626";
			document.head.appendChild(style);
			return style;
		})();
		const sheet = style.sheet;
		sheet.insertRule(css, (sheet.rules || sheet.cssRules || []).length);
	}

	function MoveCommentCollapseButton(container) {
		var firstTargDiv = container.querySelector(".btn.btn-sm.text-muted");
		var secondTargDiv = container.querySelector(".mr-2");
		//-- Swap last to first.
		container.insertBefore(firstTargDiv, secondTargDiv);
	}

	function ApplyMoveCommentCollapseButton(element) {
		const observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutationsList) {
			for (let mutation of mutationsList) {
				if (mutation.type === 'childList') {
					for (let addedNode of mutation.addedNodes) {
						if (addedNode.matches('.d-flex.flex-wrap.align-items-center.text-muted.small')) {
							MoveCommentCollapseButton(addedNode);
						}
					}
				}
			}
		});

		observer.observe(element, { childList: true, subtree: true });
	}

  //Lemmy to old.Reddit style reformats (to be used for custom stylesheet at a later date)
	if (isLemmy) {
		GM_addStyle(".container-fluid, .container-lg, .container-md, .container-sm, .container-xl {   margin-right: unset !important; margin-left: unset !important;}");
		GM_addStyle(".container, .container-lg, .container-md, .container-sm, .container-xl { max-width: 100% !important; }");
		GM_addStyle(".col-md-4 { flex: 0 0 20% !important; max-width: 20%; }");
		GM_addStyle(".col-md-8 { flex: 0 0 80% !important; max-width: 80%; }");
		GM_addStyle(".col-sm-2 { flex: 0 0 9% !important; max-width: 10%; }");
		GM_addStyle(".col-1 { flex: 0 0 4% !important; max-width: 5%; }");
		GM_addStyle(".mb-2, .my-2 { margin-bottom: 0.3rem !important; }");
		GM_addStyle(".mb-3, .my-3 { margin-bottom: .2rem !important; }");
		GM_addStyle(".mt-3, .my-3 { margin-top: .2rem !important; }");
		GM_addStyle(".thumbnail {   min-height: 100px; max-height: 125px; }");
		GM_addStyle(".vote-bar { margin-top: 15px !important; }");
		GM_addStyle(".comments {  margin-left: 20px; }");

		// Move comment collapse buttons for existing elements
		var divList = document.querySelectorAll(".d-flex.flex-wrap.align-items-center.text-muted.small");
		divList.forEach(MoveCommentCollapseButton);

		// Apply MoveCommentCollapseButton to dynamically loaded elements
		ApplyMoveCommentCollapseButton(document.documentElement);
	}
})();

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  • MayTheBananaBeWithYoEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I’ll have to give this a try! Does it work on any instance or just the one that you use?

    • mershed_perderdersOPEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      The script is written to work on “sh.itjust.works” but you can easily change it to whatever instance you use by editing the @match https://sh.itjust.works/* to use that instance’s URL.

      Just drop in the top-level name, similar to what you see used here. Easy-peasy.

      I guess it IS a good argument to create a style like that other comment suggested. I’ll look at doing that.

      • GodEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        just so you know, you can make it universal by adding something very simple to your script:

        just wrap the script with this:

        var isLemmy =
  document.head.querySelector("[name~=Description][content]").content ===
  "Lemmy";

if (isLemmy) {
  // your code here
}

        that way ppl don’t have to modify their script and it just works by default :)

          • GodEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            I wanna put this here later, if you get around to doing it before I stop being busy, lmk

            • DarkwingDuckEnglish
              4•1 year ago

              This took way too long.

              var div_list = document.querySelectorAll(".d-flex.flex-wrap.align-items-center.text-muted.small");
var div_array = [...div_list];
div_array.forEach(container => {
    var firstTargDiv = container.querySelector(".btn.btn-sm.text-muted");
    var secondTargDiv = container.querySelector(".mr-2");

    //-- Swap last to first.
    container.insertBefore (firstTargDiv, secondTargDiv);
});

              Edited because I screwed up and only moved the first comment’s collapse button. Whoopsie.

              @mershed_perderders care to add this?

              • GodEnglish
                2•1 year ago

                Also, this is super awesome. I will test it as soon as I’m on desktop tomorrow.

                • DarkwingDuckEnglish
                  3•1 year ago

                  The only issue is this only works on page load, so comments loaded dynamically while you’re on the page already won’t get the collapse button moved.

                  • GodEnglish
                    3•1 year ago

                    Ahh. I made something for this. It uses some observer. Well, chatgpt made it. I’ll find it and send it to you in a sec.

                  • GodEnglish
                    2•1 year ago

                    Here you go. Check the last lines about the observer. I don’t know how that works. Honestly I didn’t even read it. Chatgpt did that whole part for me. https://sh.itjust.works/post/42893

                    It doesn’t work 100% but it works way better than without it.

          • GodEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Thank you too :) I bless you for your awesome share.

        • kopper [they/them]English
          2•1 year ago

          Instead of querying the description (which I’m not sure is hardcoded or not), a better way to do this would probably be just if (window.lemmyConfig). To me it seems pretty unused and might be gone in later versions, but it exists now and we can take advantage of it.

          There is also window.isoData which is probably bit more reliable, but no idea if that naming is Lemmy’s or from a framework Lemmy happens to use. Unlike lemmyConfig though it has plenty of data inside which might make it a lot more reliable if you dig deep enough.

          • GodEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            What I use I’ve tested all throughout many instances and it hasn’t failed once yet. I didn’t understand the first thing but yeah I might go with your suggestion Anyway at least to try it because it seems a tiny bit better practice.