Old Reddit Curator

Filter /r/all quietly — approve or block subreddits from the post itself, word filters, user blocking and karma profiles

--- Description [listing-copy\03-detailed-description.txt] CHANGED --- Old Reddit Curator gives you a real editor for your old.reddit.com feed. Approve the subs you want, block the ones you don't, filter by word, mute users, hide posts you're done with, and catch the karma-farm accounts — all of it reversible, all of it synced across your machines, and none of it touching your Reddit account. Everything here is local. The extension never posts, never votes, never blocks through Reddit's API, and never sends your lists anywhere except your own Chrome sync, or if you choose, your own Google Drive. It also stays out of the way. Nothing floats over the page. The controls live in reddit's own header and on the posts themselves, wearing whatever colours the subreddit you're on is wearing. ──────────────────────────────────────── WHERE IT WORKS old.reddit.com only. Your subreddit verdicts sort the big mixed feeds — your front page, /r/all, /r/popular and multireddits — the places you don't choose what shows up, and a subreddit you've blocked stays hidden on its own page too. Word filters, user blocking, post hiding and karma profiles work everywhere on old.reddit.com. ──────────────────────────────────────── IN REDDIT'S OWN HEADER Three things in a row: the menu button, the slider, and a + for word filters. THE SLIDER has four stops: Hide Blocked, Show All, Discover and Isolate. Between Hide Blocked and Show All it decides how much of a blocked post you still see. At Show All every post is drawn in full, and the ones in your Hidden list are struck through. Slide left and the posts your lists caught get fainter, the subreddit name holding on longest so you can still tell what a faded post is, until at Hide Blocked they leave the page entirely. DISCOVER shows only subreddits you haven't sorted yet. Each one you approve, mark neutral or block leaves the view, so sorting a fresh feed is quick. ISOLATE shows only the lists you light up in its bar — several at once if you like. It is the fastest way to audit a rule before you trust it: isolate a word filter and you see exactly what it is catching, and nothing else. Both modes put a bar across the top of the page that names the mode and carries the × that leaves it, so the page never looks broken. THE + opens a small card: add an Aggressive or an Exact word filter, type the word, press Enter, and the posts it catches leave the page. ──────────────────────────────────────── ON THE POSTS THEMSELVES Every post in the big feeds carries ✓ – × — approve, mark neutral or block that subreddit without leaving the page. Subreddit names are tinted green, grey and red to match, so you can see your own verdicts as you scroll. THE HIDE STRIP. The left edge of every post is a narrow strip with a faint ×. Press it and the post goes to your Hidden list, its preview folding shut if it was open. On a post already in that list the strip carries a ⊕ that takes it back out. A hidden post can stay on the page as a ghost. Click it to look — and if it was in your Hidden list, that unhides it. Its ? says why it was hidden. Hold a username to block that user. Hold a video in a post's preview to play it at 2×; let go and it goes back to its speed. Clicking a post title does what reddit does: link posts go out to their link, self posts go to their comments. No click in this extension opens a post in place — reddit's own expand button, which the extension draws slightly larger, is the way to do that. Long titles wrap at the divider line instead of running on toward the sidebar. ──────────────────────────────────────── THE LISTS Approved Subreddits — subs you always want to see. Never hidden by a subreddit block. Neutral Subreddits — seen it, fine, keep showing it. Neutral hides nothing, but it counts as sorted, so Discover leaves it out. Blocked Subreddits — subs you never want to see: hidden in the big feeds and on their own page. Anything you haven't filed anywhere is simply unsorted, and it shows, because nothing hides a post for the absence of a verdict. To see only the unsorted, slide to Discover. Exact Filter List — whole-word, case-insensitive match on post titles and subreddit names. "game" matches "Game" but not "games". Aggressive Filter List — substring match anywhere. "game" also catches "games", "gameplay", "videogame". Blocked Users — the extension's own user list. No Reddit API, no login, and no 1,000-user cap. Their posts leave the listings and their comments collapse the way Reddit's own blocking collapses them — expandable if you want to look. Hidden — every post you've hidden, each with its own × to bring it back. Karma Blocker — named rules that hide posts from accounts whose karma looks manufactured. The lists have no on/off switches. An empty list already says "not in use", and it says it with the same controls you use to work the list. To stop one, empty it, or remove the entry you're tired of. ──────────────────────────────────────── HIDING POSTS Hides are local and completely reversible. Nothing touches Reddit's destructive hide API. Unhide one post from its strip or from the Hidden list, or clear the list with its trash button. The newest 2,000 hidden posts travel with sync, with tombstones so an unhide on one PC can't be resurrected by another; everything older moves to an unlimited archive on your own device, so a post you hid stays hidden rather than quietly coming back once the list is full. ──────────────────────────────────────── KARMA BLOCK PROFILES Karma profiles hide posts from accounts whose karma looks bought or farmed, and they're built one step at a time with a numbered row across the top showing where you are. You choose which karma to judge — post, comment, or total — and how to measure it: an absolute ceiling ("over 500,000 total karma"), or an earning speed, read in karma per year. Then AGE SCALING. A young account and an eight-year account should not face the same bar, so two handles on a chart set the bar a brand-new account faces and the bar a ten-year account faces, and every age in between follows the line. The readouts under the chart say what each age faces. AGE MERCY works the other way: an account older than the age you name is left alone whatever else matches. Any enabled profile that trips hides the post, so build several narrow profiles rather than one giant one. Author karma is read from Reddit's own public profile JSON, fetched politely at no more than one account per 350 ms and cached for a week. When karma is what took a post down, the post's ? carries an Add karma exception button — that account stops being hidden by your karma rules, all of them, and the post comes back straight away. ──────────────────────────────────────── A TOUR, ON FIRST RUN The first time it loads, the extension offers a three-minute video of itself in use on a sample feed: the basics, tips for sorting, and four settings shown beside what they change on the page. Its controls sit under the picture — play and pause, a seek bar marked by part so you can jump straight to one, and speeds from 0.75× to 2×. Say No thanks and it never asks again; Settings › Tour plays it whenever you want it. ──────────────────────────────────────── THE MENU One box, the same size whichever list is open. A rail down the left carries every list with its running count; click one and it opens in the pane beside it with its add box and its entries, each with its own × — a long list scrolls inside the box. SEARCH IS A MODE. Type a word, press Enter, and every list narrows to what matches. The rail turns into your results — how many hits each list holds, greyed where there are none — and you click through them to read one list at a time in the ordinary pane. It stays put while you look around and ends when you clear it. Every list keeps its own sort order, alphabetical or by date, either direction. All of it lives in a shadow root, so a subreddit's custom CSS cannot restyle it. The menus look the same on every sub. ──────────────────────────────────────── SETTINGS Browsing options, all on by default and all one checkbox each: endless scrolling, the inline ✓ – × buttons, reddit's header and sidebar following you down the page, one-line hidden posts, images rendered in comments, galleries opening enlarged, a larger expand button, and plain post titles — which strips subreddit-added emoji and reduces flair tags to one quiet grey chip on the big feeds, so no subreddit can shout in its own palette. Cross-Device Sync and Import/Export live here too, and the tour video, to watch again. ──────────────────────────────────────── SYNC By default your lists ride Chrome's own sync storage, so any machine signed into the same Chrome profile gets them live, with no page reload. Merging is per-entry, so two devices editing at once always converge — even when their clocks disagree — and deletes leave a tombstone for 180 days so a delete beats a stale add from a machine that was offline. Lists travel packed and compressed, which means large setups use well under half the 100 KB quota. If you outgrow it, switch the backend to Google Drive: same data, same merge rules, stored in Drive's hidden app-data folder where it won't clutter your Drive. Switching back is always allowed, and the extension tells you straight away if your lists are too big for Chrome sync rather than appearing to succeed and failing later. Press the connected backend in Settings to sync on the spot. Sync can be switched off entirely to keep each machine independent. If sync is actually broken, a bar says so in one sentence and stands until it's fixed — it can't be dismissed, because a fault you dismissed is a fault you stop seeing. Import/Export writes and reads a plain JSON file, with a merge-or-overwrite choice on import. ──────────────────────────────────────── ALSO • Endless scrolling, with new posts filtered and wired up as they arrive — and topped up, so a heavily filtered feed still gives you a full page • The header following you down every page, if you want it to • Big ‹ › arrows beside an enlarged gallery, set outside the picture so nothing covers what you're looking at • A live readout of how much sync storage you're using • One rating card, a week after you install. Not now brings it back a week later; Rate it or Don't ask again ends it for good. Nothing is ever locked behind it ──────────────────────────────────────── PRIVACY No analytics. No telemetry. No remote code. Nothing is sent to the developer — there is no developer server. The extension makes exactly four kinds of network request, and none of them goes to the developer: 1. Reddit's own public profile JSON, to read a post author's karma for the Karma Blocker 2. the next page of the listing you're already reading, for endless scrolling 3. Reddit's own image servers, to show an image posted in a comment as the image 4. Google Drive's app-data folder — only if you explicitly connect it, and only for your own list data The tour video ships inside the extension and plays from it; it loads nothing. Your lists never leave your own storage. Full privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/doubledingodevelopment/home/oldredditcurator ──────────────────────────────────────── WHAT'S NEW IN 6.1 New: a three-minute tour video on first run, with its own controls and a replay in Settings; a hide strip down the left of every post, which becomes an unhide button on posts you've hidden; the Neutral list, back; hidden posts struck through at Show All; hold a video for 2×; the word filter as a + in the header; long titles that wrap at the divider line. Changed: the header follows you down every page, and subreddits and profiles keep one post width as you scroll. Endless scrolling keeps a full page in front of you, and switching it off takes its pages away. A blocked subreddit is hidden on its own page too. The ? help buttons are gone — the tour says what they said; the ? on a hidden post stays. Sync now is part of the sync picker. Press-and-hold on a post, the sidebar word box and the Unpeek button are gone. Fixed: sorting a subreddit no longer nudges the rest of its line; turning on the header-and-sidebar setting no longer shifts the sidebar; Settings opened from the toolbar icon shows your switches as they are; reddit's own sidebar boxes are no longer squeezed; the rating card's answers are saved; the menu stays one size whatever list is open.