Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: Slashdotter

  • Discontinuing Slashdotter

    In which I discontinue Slashdotter.

  • Four More Fennec Add-ons

    Update: TwitterBar was sold to HootSuite and renamed HootBar in March of 2011. TwitterBar for Chrome was discontinued in October of 2012. I got some great feedback after I updated URL Fixer to be compatible with Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve been able to add Fennec compatibility to four…

  • Own a piece of history

    For the low, low price of $189,900, you could own this piece of Web software history: This is the very building where I worked on such projects as Slashdotter, Netscape Navigator 9, OPML Support for Firefox, ScribeFire, the Digg Top Users list, and most recently, Twits Like Me. If you act now, I’ll even throw…

  • Slashdotter Updated: 1.8.9

    I’ve updated Slashdotter to accommodate the changes that Slashdot made to their HTML. Thanks to all who brought bugs to my attention.

  • Extension Updates

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve just updated all of my extensions to be compatible with Firefox 2.0. They’re all available for download at my site, and they’ll all eventually be available at Mozilla Addons as well. No new features for these updates, just compatibility fixes.

  • Slashdotter 1.8.6

    Slashdotter has been updated to fix a bug introduced in version 1.8.5. Comments that were condensed (i.e., only showing title, author, score) in threaded mode could not be retrieved via AJAX as Slashdotter was supposed to allow. That bug has been fixed, and the implementation has been made better than it was before it was…

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