EventListener checks at regular intervals for new events of interest. It can check for flags, appeals, comments, notes, commentary, and post approvals using a post query string (see Help:Cheatsheet). It also allows subscriptions on posts to new comments, notes, commentaries or edits, new forums on topics, or wiki or pool changes. Besides all of those events, dmail, spam, user feedback, bans and mod actions (i.e. system events) can checked.

Installation

• Chrome/Firefox: Install Tampermonkey

Project page

• https://github.com/BrokenEagle/JavaScripts

Main script

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BrokenEagle/JavaScripts/stable/eventlistener.user.js

Usage notes

• Post query events
• comments, notes, commentaries, approvals, flags, appeals
• Uses a post query (Help:Cheatsheet) when checking for new events
• A blank query line will return all events
• Subscribe events
• comments, notes, commentaries, post edits, approvals, forums, wikis, pools
• Will return events for subscribed instances
• For posts: comments, notes, commentaries, post edits, approvals
• For forum topics: forum posts
• For wiki pages: wikis
• For pools: pools
• Post-type events can be auto-subscribed to for your own uploads
• The subscription only occurs when visiting the post page for each upload
• Post-type events can be subscribed to en masse using post query controls on the settings page
• See Help:Cheatsheet
• Other events
• dmails, spam, bans, user feedbacks, mod actions
• Will return all events with some exceptions
• Bans can be filtered to remove autobans
• Feedback can be filtered to remove autofeedback
• Mod actions has 36 categories that can be subscribed to

Normally, closing the event notice will hide any other notices that are open in other pages. Clicking the LOCK link prevents that for that particular notice. Clicking the READ link will keep the notice from popping up in other new tabs without having to close the notice.

Settings for the script can be changed on the Danbooru account settings page (/settings). Go to Userscript Menus, and click to the EventListener tab. Turning off event types will cause the subscribe links for those types to no longer appear.

Final

Any suggestions or feedback is appreciated.

Latest edits

• (2019-12-09)
• Version 17
• Add several new events (post approvals, user feedbacks, bans, mod actions)
• Separate events into operation types (post query, subscribe, other)
• Updated the color scheme to adapt to changes to Danbooru's theme (i.e. light/dark)
• The event notice is saved so that it loads faster on page reloads
• Updated the topic title
• Updated usage notes
• (2019-12-22)
• Version 18 Updated library version

Versions

...are you sure this is a good idea? We don't need any more flag-related drama.

flags against yourself

Against the post, not the user! Don't take it personally.

Honestly, it's better if the original uploader stays out of discussions about whether a picture belongs here or not - they obviously think it does, and they're more likely to be defensive/aggressive about it.

parasol said:

Honestly, it's better if the original uploader stays out of discussions about whether a picture belongs here or not - they obviously think it does, and they're more likely to be defensive/aggressive about it.

But a notice is still welcomed in my opinion. As the uploader, there should be a reason why you uploaded something and one should be able to state your opinion...as easy as possible.

Chiera said:

But a notice is still welcomed in my opinion. As the uploader, there should be a reason why you uploaded something and one should be able to state your opinion...as easy as possible.

Or learn from your mistakes.

parasol said:

...are you sure this is a good idea? We don't need any more flag-related drama.

Against the post, not the user! Don't take it personally.

Honestly, it's better if the original uploader stays out of discussions about whether a picture belongs here or not - they obviously think it does, and they're more likely to be defensive/aggressive about it.

You can already see which posts of yours are flagged by doing user:yourusername status:flagged every two-three days. This script simply makes the process less painful. Someone who is likely to get upset about their posts getting flagged would probably already check regularly for flags by his own.

ion288 said:

Or learn from your mistakes.

I agree with Chiera here, it would be nice to get a notice in these cases and if people are being too defensive/aggressive about their uploads being flagged they can be warned.

parasol said:

Against the post, not the user! Don't take it personally.

I'll grant you that, though such was not my intention when I wrote it. Regardless, I updated the language in the OP.

Anyways, this program doesn't really change anything. Users that check regularly were going to do so anyways. It only simplifies the process and makes it more timely.

Pushed Version 3 which adds in the check for post appeals. It only checks for posts appealed by someone other than yourself on your own uploads.

I felt that these don't get as much attention as the flags, which is the primary motivator for adding this.

Pushed Version 4 which adds in the Dmails check. This was honestly my primary motivator for this script in general, as I always found it a pain to have to navigate to a new page (sometimes two in the case of spam) before knowing if the message was important enough to merit immediate notice.

Edit:

• Minor versions
• (2017-12-01) 4.1 - Fix of hasevents flag.
• (2017-12-13) 4.2 - Fix of DMail last ID drift.
  

Pushed Version 5 which adds in the comments check. Subscribe links are on the post and comments page. Also, it doesn't take any additional resources the more comments you subscribe to. It basically checks every new comment against your subscribed list, and displays those that are a hit.

Edit:

• Minor versions
• (2017-12-19)
• 5.1 - Fixes updating the comment subscribe list
• 5.2 - Fixes updating the last IDs
• (2017-12-20)
• 5.3 - Fixes delay in switching links for very long lists

Pushed Version 6 which adds in the forums check. It functions much like the comments check. One primary difference is how it displays any forum post hits since the index table of forum posts only displays an excerpt. To account for this, I added in some links which will pull in the full forum post on demand and display it.

Edit:

• Minor versions
• (2017-12-19)
• 6.1
• Fixed link formatting in tables
• Change how appeals/flags are collected and filtered

Pushed Version 7 which allows the opening of the full Dmail in the notice, similar to how the forum notice works. Note that this counts as having read the Dmail.

Pushed Version 8 which adds notes. These are useful for those waiting for translations, but also for those that translate to detect when another has updated one of their translations. With the event notice the note can be rendered, which converts the HTML from what is normally shown in the note table to what it actually looks like.

As a side note, this was finally made possible due to the recent deployment of issue #3495.

Edit:

• Minor versions
• (2018-02-02)
• 8.1 Fixed bug in comment link subscriptions
• (2018-04-12)
• 8.2 Fixed bug introduced by recent deployment of Danbooru causing different index orderings

Pushed Version 9 which went through a major refactoring to use the library, reduce the code size (~20%), and make it more modular for easier additions in the future. Externally though, it pretty much functions the same.

• Minor versions
• (2018-08-02)
• 9.1
• Add more variable specifications
• Mostly disabled script due to issue #3795
• Turn off debug messages by default
• (2018-08-03)
• 9.2
• Converted script to use available functions instead
• 9.3
• Fix coloration of links due to jQuery upgrade
• 9.4
• Lowered specificity of link color to avoid clobbering user name colors
• (2018-08-12)
• 9.5
• Upgraded to latest version of library
• Added several concurrency functions
• Various other fixes, refactors

Pushed Version 10 which primarily adds artist commentaries. It also went through a library change and code refactor (~20% less). The biggest notable difference is the change in UI. Since the post navigation submenu was getting crowded, I moved all of the subscribe links to their own submenu. Additionally, I added in the capability for multifunction links.

• Post/Show
• Comments - comments
• Notes - notes
• Artist commentary - commentary
• Translations - notes, commentary
• All - comments, notes, commentary
• Topic/Show
• Topic - forum topic
• Email - unrelated to EventListener
• Performs the same subscribe action as before which sends an email once a day on topic updates

The colors are green for subscribed, and orange for unsubscribed.

Minor versions

• (2018-08-28)
• 10.1 Only show artist commentary when there are translated portions <nonamethanks: Discord>
• (2018-08-30)
• 10.2
• Organize notes by post ID <nonamethanks: Discord>
• Ability to lock notices open so that they can be read later <Unbreakable: Discord>
• Reading forum posts from the notice marks the topic as read

Pushed Version 11 which adds a settings menu available on the same page as the Danbooru settings (My Account >> Settings) under Userscript Menus. The specific settings for this script are under the tab EventListener. The settings "should" instantly reflect in all other open tags with the latest version of the script running. The factory reset is only partially handled right now, only hiding all interfaces in other tabs until a page refresh.

Minor versions

• (2018-09-13)
• 11.1 Use updated jQuery load mechanism
• (2018-09-21)
• 11.2 Decode encoded email addresses from Cloudflare
• (2019-01-03)
• 11.3
• Updated library version
• ~20% reduction in code size
• Refactored code to standard

Pushed Version 12 which adds post edits as an event type. Since that endpoint is so slow though, it has been limited to checking at most 200 items per page load, whereas all the others have now been limited to 1000. If it detects an overflow though (i.e. the limit was reached), it will keep rechecking at each page refresh regardless of the recheck interval user setting.

Additionally, an absence tracker has been added to the userscript. If more than a day has passed since the script was last run, it offers the user an option to update everything at once regardless of the limits above, with an activity indicator as feedback. If more than a month has passed, it offers the user an option to reset all the positions to their most recent values and disregard any events that occurred prior.

Minor versions

• (2019-01-15)
• 12.1
• Added thumbnail support <nonamethanks: Discord>
• Both post edits and notes
• (2019-01-16)
• 12.2
• Reduced unnecessary network call by staggering limit boundaries
• Fixed logic for processing events
• (2019-01-25)
• 12.3 Added autocomplete to menu search query control <nonamethanks: Discord>

Pushed Version 13 which does several new minor things, including:

• Hide subscribe links for disabled event types
• Fixed issue with reenabling an event after a long period of being disabled
• It was using stale bookmark positions, which would cause it to be significantly behind
• Which would take it a while to catch up plus it would report a lot of older events
• Changed which events are enabled by default on install/factory reset
• Added the cache editor being prototyping (forum #154196)
• It can currently only view or delete program data, but will eventually be able to edit it
• Added an expandable section which details all of the program data and what they do

Minor versions

• (2019-02-06)
• 13.1 - Fixed issue with the "All" subscribe link on the post page

Pushed Version 14 which primarily integrates the new library code that was finalized yesterday. This is coming out as a major version since a large majority of the code was changed while updating to the new library version and standardizing all of the affected userscripts.

Additionally, all of the menus were standardized, and fully working cache editors were incorporated. Also, a new control was added under cache settings which shows the size of all the userscript data amongst all of the various data storage.

Minor versions

• (2019-02-14)
• 14.1
• Fixed issue with missing thumbnails <Unbreakable: Discord>
• Fixed issue with locked notices not staying open <Unbreakable: Discord>
• 14.2
• Fixed missing subscription control <Unbreakable: Discord>
• (2019-02-20)
• 14.3
• Fixed variable name
• (2019-03-07)
• 14.4
• Fixed absence notification incorrectly firing
• (2019-05-09)
• 14.5
• Add use of "only" parameter
• (2019-05-10)
• 14.6
• Updated library
• (2019-05-10)
• 14.7
• Updated library