Reddit re-design compatibility?

[ghost]

Any plans to make Rededup Reddit's redesign compatible?

What are the major hurdles to make this new Reddit compatible?

[nickgaya]

Hi @dareksartre, and thanks for your interest in Reddit Deduplicator! These are good questions. When I initially developed this add-on, I investigated adding support for "New Reddit" but decided not to do so for several reasons:

• Compared to Old Reddit, New Reddit is designed in a way that's much less amenable to third-party modifications in general. Old Reddit has a simple HTML structure with descriptive CSS class names like link for a link or tagline for a post tagline, which makes it easy for Reddit Deduplicator to locate and modify the relevant page elements. With New Reddit, CSS classes have obfuscated names like cZPZhMe-UCZ8htPodMyJ5. This makes it harder to find the right selectors for Reddit Deduplicator to use, and there's a possibility these class names might change arbitrarily as Reddit updates their frontend code, potentially causing the extension to stop working at any time.

  Not only is finding the right elements harder with New Reddit, but from my initial investigation it seems like it would be more difficult to cleanly modify the page to condense duplicates without disrupting the rest of the user interface.

• New Reddit has more distinct page layouts that the extension would need to handle, for example the main view, user overview, and user posts view. With Old Reddit almost all pages have a uniform "site table" structure, the only exception (as far as I know) being the combined search page released in 2015.

• With Old Reddit, getting post thumbnails is simple and straightforward, whereas with New Reddit getting a representative image for a post is more complex and there are several different variants that would need to be handled. In some views, posts don't have thumbnails so the add-on would need to use the larger media preview images, which could negatively impact the add-on's performance footprint.

• Finally, the "infinite scroll" feature of New Reddit adds further complexity to the implementation and also poses some challenges for user experience (for example, if a later post is incorrectly identified as a duplicate of a much earlier post, the user might not be aware that they are missing something).

While none of these points is insurmountable, each one increases the complexity of implementing this enhancement. All in all, it would be a pretty sizable amount of effort, so I don't currently have plans to undertake this feature.

[ghost]

with some React overlay?

[ghost]

For time being Reddit thumbnails have been a bit mess....
Get CORS https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cross-domain-cors/mjhpgnbimicffchbodmgfnemoghjakai
remove the default rule and add such as i.redd.it* v.redd.it* ....
like that

[ghost]