Beyond the obvious official DLP FFN theme and other site themes for stylish, how do you improve your experiences?

I, personally, use a few greasemonkey scripts. Power Fanfiction.net changes a lot of shit, like moving review links to the review count, merging chapter/word count, and changing date formats to relate how long since updates with color coded awesomeness. It also highlights words like slash.

As far as chapter viewing also auto-pages. Meaning, once you reach the bottom of the chapter, it automatically loads the next chapter directly beneath, with minimal interference.

Less of a massive change,Anti-Twilight removes twilight crossovers, FFN Menu Remover removes the roll-over effect of the top menu, and FFN Widescreen Fix is meant to fix widescreen display of chapters.

Anyone else got anything interesting?

Edit;

Some people have found an issue with installing my shit. The originals are here; Wide Screen Fix, Menu Remover, Anti-Twilight, and Power Fanfiction.net. Install buttons in each link.

If you want my colors for Power FFn, go to your manage scripts window, hit edit, and copy/replace all of it with mine.

 

You know, when I read an essay by Stallman talking about how everyone was going to be running browser level website mods, I thought he was out of touch. It seems he wasn't.

In any case, I've been toying with making an FFN to TeX converter. Because FFN sucks. And there's no comparison with TeX's typesetting.

It might be amusing to do that to a few of the best fanfics, bind them up nicely, and donate them to my local library... Or stick them in a used book store.... Et cetera.

 

I just use everything how it is. Changing nothing, except I did recently change from black on white, to black on white recently.

Don't know if that counts, as it is part of the FFN thing.

 

It's a bit obvious, as everyone should have it anyway, but ADBlockPlus is great for FF.Net. None of those annoying "Shoot the duck" animated sidebars any more. In fact, I've forgotten what FF.Net even looks like with ads on.

 

I've had a few dreams (nightmares?) where this happened. Very WTF, and I bet it would be the same irl.

 

For those without greasefire: Power Fanfiction ,WideScreen , Menu Remover , Anti-Twilight

I gotta say I am loving that power fanfiction script, thx. Just sticking with the white text on the dark grey background, looks great.

 

I never heard about Greasemonkey. Tried it today, and it's awesome. I even played a bit with it.

Enclosed are:
1) no-ads script that hides the advertisement block, and
2) anti-twilight, anti-slash, anti-Tonks/Lupin scripts, which are essentially the same script that puts the "censored" image over an unwelcome search result.

Well, that was some fun!

 

The only way to truly improve the fan fiction reading experience is to switch to published works.

 

Maybe you can write a book.

 

Perhaps you have missed the point entirely, ab546122. The point isn't the content you're reading. I was asking how you improved or modified the websites you're reading on.

I'm sure everyone here is still reading professionally published works. I just pulled A Darkness Forged in Fire by Chris Evans out of my box o` books since I was designated driver to a friend after his dentists appointment.

There is also FictionPress for Original Content that isn't published for those who don't want to/don't have the spare cash for books.

:| Now go die in a fire. >_>

 

Guess I got beaten to the punch. Now all that's left for me to do is to find a program that filters slash/yaoi so that I never have to accidentally read their horrific summaries ever again.

 

I set up a play list on my iPod for the chapter and make sure its in the right order, like a soundtrack. Sometimes I just have one song on endless repeat for the entire book.

• Wastelands of Time - the entire Exogenesis: Symphony by Muse
• Denarian Trilogy - Bat out of Hell by Meatloaf
• Anything fluffy - You Are My Sunshine sung by Elizabeth Mitchell, Release Me by Oh Laura, With or Without You by U2
• Anything Comedic - Sanford & Son theme song
• Anything to do with the dark arts/evil things - This Moment by Disturbed, Born Like This by Three Days Grace, Becoming the Bull by Atreyu, King Nothing by Metallica

 

Same, though I think I'll try the chapter viewing and widescreen scripts.

 

Oh man! These make ff.net almost readable!

Thanks!

 

DLP has a solution for you. Click Me

 

This doesn't work with current firefox. Does anyone have a slash blocker that does?

 

Two bookmarklets:

Readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Auto-scroll: http://tim.theenchanter.com/2008/08/autoscroll-in-safari-firefox.html

 

Thanks for auto-scroll. I have my will to live back. If the world was so cruel and uncaring, that the only site with a useful auto-scroll feature was asstr, I wouldn't have wanted to continue living.