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When I favor a question sometimes; I would like to be able to favor the question when I am browsing on the questions menu; as supposed to clicking the question and then favoring. I was wondering if I am the only one who feels this way as well, how can I move forward to get this changed?

Please and thank you. :)

GC

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  • Updated with a Greasemonkey script!
    – Oli Mod
    Commented Sep 7, 2010 at 19:35

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You probably won't get support for this. Even if you do have local support here, you'd need somebody at StackOverflow Inc to push the change and they'd probably have to implement it over all sites.

However you could implement this for yourself using a greasemonkey script. The pages already have jQuery running on them so I imagine it would be pretty simple to:

  1. Loop over $('.question-summary') and for each element:
  2. Pull out the question-ID from the element ID attribute
  3. Add a link to the box.
  4. Bind the link's click action to throw a request to one and then add a link that does an AJAX POST to http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/posts/<Question ID>/vote/5

I'd write you a full script if I had any free time at the moment but hopefully this is enough of a clue for somebody to pump something out in a few minutes. Or you if you've any experience with jQuery... It's really not that hard once you know what you need to do.

Edit: Found some time. Greasemonkey script awaiting you: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/85630

It can be better. It doesn't show if you have already favourited a question and that means that if you click it again, you un-favourite it.

I'm trying to work out a way that the script can find out if a question is favourited or not. At the moment, the only way I can think is to load the whole question page up (behind the scenes, of course) and extract some javascript showing the vote-status. This would mean doing 30-100 extra requests per page. I'm certain the Stackoverflow servers would melt if more than a dozen people had a script like that.

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  • You could probably process the results of api.ubuntu.stackexchange.com/users/(userid)/favorites which is limited to 300 requests without a key or 10,000 with a key
    – moberley
    Commented Sep 7, 2010 at 21:03
  • The problem is if you have lot of favourites, the favourites returned from the API aren't guaranteed to line up with questions shown.
    – Oli Mod
    Commented Sep 8, 2010 at 11:04
  • you are the man!! thanks for the script!!
    – myusuf3
    Commented Sep 9, 2010 at 1:17
  • doesn't seem to work oli! :)
    – myusuf3
    Commented Sep 9, 2010 at 2:38
  • It only works on ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions and pages starting with "/questions". And it doesn't work on meta.
    – Oli Mod
    Commented Sep 9, 2010 at 8:58

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