Stopped working - The part that automously search for comments
CaioCMartinelli opened this issue · comments
Hi.
There is sometime. I just notice your new version some months after the release because i was using my version that used some the alternative invidio.us sites (not much reliable).
Your new version is great, just need some work on speed side, it's a bit laggy for changes between normal and full screen and overall use if you are on another tabs while it's loading but in a counterpart it is a lot, really much more reliable than using third-party sources.
It's been a while since it stopped working the way it used to, now for it to find and load the comments on the video you need to load the comments on page and manually (Going to the part where they are below the video and load some, wait and load more...) this way the extension is able to pick then otherwise as it is right now it do not show anything.
Do you think you can fix it? I tested on my usual browser and a brand-new installation, happens on both.
Thank you for your work!
Caio.
Hi @CaioCMartinelli, thank you very much for the feedback, and sorry for the late response.
Now. I have sad news for this add-on.
Unfortunately I haven't really been working on this add-on for quite some time. The comment loading logic was the biggest problem to solve for this add-on, for which I was never able to find a satisfying and performant solution. I tried the YouTube and Invidio.us APIs, both with their severe limitations, and settled on a DOM-parsing logic; which now unfortunately causes significant performance problems on most users.
I myself haven't been using the add-on lately, and with YouTube's own Timed Comments feature underway, I probably won't contribute to the codebase in the future either.
I still welcome contributions and forks of course; if anybody has improvements I'm more than willing to review and merge them; so I'll keep this issue open.