In case any @frankerfacez.com are wondering why it's broken in @firefox.com and has been for eight days now, it's because we're still waiting for Firefox to approve the update. And, after eight days, we finally got... this. Firefox users, please ensure you're using our user-script and not the addon

I sometimes use Google's news feed thing to scroll when I'm bored, and in the past week I've had to block like twelve different Fox News channels. This is obnoxious. It just keeps finding more random Fox YouTube channels it can try directing me too. Google is absolutely part of the problem.

Twitch changed their font stuff again. Hopefully this won't result in too many people complaining that it's different now in the FrankerFaceZ support channels. If any things look super weird for you, try clearing any custom font size in FrankerFaceZ (Appearance > Theme >> Fonts).

I've spent way too much time looking into why the channel page on Twitch randomly refreshes itself after a bit of time, but I've come to realize that it happens even without any extensions running. Today's FFZ update doesn't stop the refresh, but does fix it breaking FFZ features, so yay I guess.

Been reading over that Epic v. Apple thing people have been talking about, and this part caught my attention. Just in a "What the fuck is Apple smoking, have they even looked at Steam before?" kind of way. Steamworks has so many features for developers. Everything a gaming platform should have.

I don't know who needs to read this, but: Wait for reviews.

The review situation for Firefox add-ons is pretty dumb. There are multiple users leaving 1 star reviews accusing me of deleting their reviews, which I can't do. One user gave us a 1 star review for being "broken", I explained 7tv is having an outage, and they deleted and re-rated without comment.

My favorite part of the whole Firefox situation is this one anonymous user who keeps leaving 1 star reviews claiming we keep deleting their reviews. We don't even have the option to delete reviews. Idiot keeps violating the rules and Mozilla staff is nuking them (as far as I can tell.)

23 days later, Firefox has finally approved an update for FrankerFaceZ. 23 days. 13 days since the latest update was authored. Yeah. Cool. Woo...

So. Let's talk about @firefox.com. There are good things about Firefox. It's very good that there's competition with Chrome. It's good that Firefox is standing up for technology that benefits the users, like ad-blockers. As a user, Firefox is a great thing and I really appreciate what they do. But.

I am going to rant about Firefox later, but I just got up after sleeping terribly so I don't have it in me just yet.

Discord needs pinned messages that stay on screen until they're dismissed for channels. That would help so much with support channels. Today in the FFZ server there has been a constant stream of people asking the same question and failing to read so much as 3 messages above theirs.

The typical FrankerFaceZ release timeline in a nutshell: - I release an update. - It is immediately available for user-script users. - Chrome approves the update within 3 hours to 24 hours. - Firefox still hasn't approved the previous update from 8 days ago, let alone this new one.

Thanks, Chrome. Exactly what I wanted. No effective ad blockers and AI garbage everywhere in dev tools with no options to disable it.

I thought this was supposed to be a @frame.work event but they won't shut up about AMD.

Sometimes I'll be logging into a site and I'll just hit login straight away because of autofill. But after I click the button, a captcha appears. Then the page submits anyways, then it yells at me for not solving it. It's pretty frustrating. Why even enable the button before the captcha loads?

The amount of development time I have put into @frankerfacez.com over specifically webpack, and not just webpack, but specifically webpack not exposing one specific variable... is way too much. webpack at runtime is so annoyingly fragile.

My Vault got you if want to backup your Twitch memories or just want to mass export them to Youtube. It's even possible to add a chat overlay or upscale the video if you streamed in an odd resolution. vault.root-space.eu?ref=1

I hope Bluesky gets a way to check on the status of things you've reported sooner rather than later. 1. Getting feedback would make it much easier to know if I'm reporting the right things. 2. Knowing that right-wing extremists I've reported have been dealt with would be satisfying.

Seen a bunch of people thinking the weird sensors on the Switch 2 controllers mean you'll be able to use them like mice. If that's true, then I really hope we'll be able to just connect a standard mouse because the ergonomics of using one of those controllers on its side looks terrible, lol

Today, Corsair iCUE uninstalled itself from my PC. Again. Second time this has happened within two months. What is even happening at Corsair? The software for my old Corsair keyboard was way better than this slop.

Developers who use rough time estimates like "1 month ago" and don't let you somehow access the exact time and date, like in a tooltip or something, are not my favorite developers. I'm looking at you, some people at YouTube.

It's such asshole design that Discord keeps resetting the option to disable their annoying alternative notification sounds. Just let us turn it off and leave it off. I'm not gonna suddenly want your app to sound differently next year when you make a slightly different Christmas/Halloween theme.

Just remembered the Godot fork "Redot" a bunch of "anti-woke" idiots started after they got mad at Godot for posting a tweet with the word woke in it and thought I'd check in on it. As far as I can tell it is just a straight fork with the name and logos replaced. ... and that's it. Outstanding.

Forza Horizon 4 was permanently delisted from online stores today because of expiring content licenses. A game with almost entirely positive reviews and lots of content, and no one else can ever buy it again because a numbers person said "that's enough" arbitrarily. This industry is a fucking joke.

I see a lot of people complaining about the layouts Twitch is testing because it puts some info in a different place, but most of the replies I've seen haven't mentioned the potential for the video player to be smaller from this. Because it absolutely can be smaller. What an idiotic change.

Twitch really has people annoyed with this latest layout change. I've been getting so many pings on Discord asking me to fix it, and lots of people in the @frankerfacez.com server's general and support channels complaining. No idea why Twitch thought this nonsense A/B test should hit so many users.

I was talking to a friend about old PC cases today, and it reminded me how much I miss the Corsair Vengeance C70. Just look at this majestic thing. ...okay so it was not that great, but the sides were easy to remove. And it had handles. Handles! Modern cases need handles. Give me handles. Please.

Meanwhile on that other dumbass website, a different dumbass website is happy to announce that they're using AI to generate global emotes now. Because paying a real person to photoshop a Santa hat onto an actual cat, a task that would take like five minutes, is too hard I guess. Fuck off, Twitch.

Twitch beat my response time for removing an annoying Twitch feature. I'm washed up. (Actually I've had code to hide those sitting in FFZ for like 12 hours now but didn't want to release it without catching one in the wild to make sure it works. Guess I know why I didn't, now.)

Haven't been able to play #Borderlands3 with friends for a couple days now. Really hope Gearbox un-explodes their servers soon because I don't want to set up a VPN. Wish they'd just let you use Steam servers for matchmaking / NAT punchthrough. BL2 never gave me this kind of trouble.

Uploaded a new @frankerfacez.com build to Firefox today. This is the fourth build since we switched to Manifest V3 and a new build process thanks to Chrome things. The previous builds have taken 5, 8, and 8 days to be approved respectively. Wonder if this one will take 8 days too?

It looks like Chrome re-removed the flag to trust self-signed certificate for localhost, so let me just take a moment to say: Fuck Google Chrome.

Thank heavens John Patrick is here to help me get 1,000 more users on my *checks notes* beta version extension of my actual extension with over a million users.

Some cloud service providers really do have crazy prices. Found one that with "starting at $2199" for up to 3,000 connections. For Pub/Sub. Requiring a 12 month commitment. Paying about seventy cents *per connection* for just fanning out messages. I'm impressed. Also apparently support is extra???

The year is 2024. It's almost 2025. People still develop CSS frameworks and make websites for them without native dark themes. These people probably shouldn't be making CSS frameworks.

Alright, I just went through my Twitter following one (hopefully) last time to find everyone. Sky Follower Bridge is pretty nice. If I'm not following you, and I should be / have followed you in the past, please yell at me to follow you.

Bluesky be like

Another day, another FrankerFaceZ build submitted to Mozilla for approval. Will it be approved within a week? Version 4.75.4 took 6 days. Version 4.75.5 took 8 days. If Mozilla doesn't improve their times, I'm going to need to start instructing our users to prefer the user script version of FFZ.

I hate buying some kinds of electronics. > 50W Cigarette Lighter USB Charger! > look inside > 30W Max + 20W Max on two separate ports

Forgive me a moment of politics, but Michigan is doing great. Just went to vote. Since we have a week (minimum) of early in-person voting, it was a very relaxed experience. No big line or waiting. The place wasn't packed. Not only that, but I got the best "I Voted" sticker of all time.

Me when I find something neat I want to use for browser extension development: Hey this is neat I wonder if all platforms support it Firefox's bug tracker, literally every time: [Open] *Opened 8 years ago*

Hello to everyone who finally got sick of Twitter. I need to remember to post here more myself.

Every time I've wanted to get into home automation, I end up not going through with it because it seems nigh impossible to find things worth buying. There's so much Wi-Fi garbage. I don't need my light switches polluting those frequencies. ZigBee/Thread/etc. exist for a reason, please use them.

So, a feature called Shared Chat dropped on Twitch today in limited availability. FrankerFaceZ support is in development but probably won't be ready until tomorrow. While I was given slightly advanced notice of the feature drop, I haven't had enough time to sit down and work on things yet.

I wish more web developers would use <link> tags to include their favicon and not just rely on browsers to check /favicon.ico It'd make a lot of pages show up nicer in the FFZ link preview system.

Just sitting here thinking about how strange I find it that Valve hasn't released a new Steam Controller based on the layout of the Steam Deck yet. The Deck's controls are great, and it'd let you share input mappings between the Deck and PC. What's the hold up?

Just needed to update @frankerfacez.com because Chrome has a new behavior where multiple simultaneous write transactions to IndexedDB will just fail to actually save. Fun stuff. I bet this is related to the site isolation garbage.

I updated the @frankerfacez.com client today with better support for High Contrast mode. I'm not sure how many users we have using that, but we had one user report a few issues (stupid stuff like checkboxes not appearing to be checked) so I am glad to have that taken care of.