When userstyles.org started, I had to keep in mind the various ways people could use the system in ways I hadn’t intended. People might create spam entries, use the site to host images, post things that aren’t CSS, etc. I wrote code to put restrictions on styles so that I wouldn’t have to deal with […]
Google turned black today day because of Earth Hour. If you’d like to make this change permanent, you can use Stylish with Google Web Search - dark gray redesign (vC) or any of the other dark Google styles.
In fact, when I first saw the black Google page, I thought it was a bug in Stylish […]
As you may have noticed, or may not have if you have some sensible styles, there are text ads all over the site. These ads pay fairly well (especially considering I don’t have to do any work for the money), so I thought I might give back to those who have the site so successful, […]
Stylish has made the pages of PC World Magazine! Not just PC World Magazine Online, but the actual magazine you can go and buy. It’s one of Eight Great, Simple Ways to Hack the Web. It even includes a screenshot of Valacar’s Google Web Search - dark blue redesign (vC). Nice thing to include in […]
Since I put in a feature to directly link to the forums directly from each style’s page, I’ve been finding that users assume that the forum will know which style they’re talking about. The two solutions to this are to convince the user otherwise or to make the assumption true. I’ve gone for the latter.
Now, […]
A lot of the links on this blog don’t work. I’m trying to get the old URL set-up working. If I can’t within a couple days, I’ll switch to the boring old ID-based URL system.
Update: five minutes later, and everything works. Hurray for responsive support people!
Finally, got the time to get this blog going again. I’ve just moved from Dreamhost to HostingRails. I’ll offer a bit of comparison. Yes, those are referral links below because I’m greedy.
Dreamhost, on the My Crazy Domain Insane plan
$120 per year
Lots of bandwidth, which grows every month (I’m at 3 TB per month now)
Lots of […]
As you may know, userstyles.org has had uptime and performance problems in the past. Based on past discussions with Dreamhost, my current host, the problem seems to not be one of bandwidth, but of server resources to generate my dynamic pages.
Now, I don’t really think I’m doing anything too ridiculous when I generate pages, so […]
I’m losing track of all the things I’m supposed to do, so I’ve put up a bug tracker at bugs.userstyles.org. Feel free to report bugs on userstyles and Stylish in there. Before putting in crazy feature requests, it’s probably best to discuss it in the forum first.
I’ve been fairly busy lately helping out with sumo, the official Firefox Support project. One way or another, I should have more free time within a month, and I intend to make some more changes to userstyles.org. These include finishing off the performance improvements I started, another look at categorization, and super-feeds that provide authors […]