Contributing
What about telling friends, or discussing here (or on reddit, twitter, quora, etc.) And please let us know if you make/made a blog-post or video about us.
We need concise explanations with .gifs /screenshots /videos. And content for Tooltips in the app. (And invisible Tags & alternative names of the features for search, multi-language)
You can help us to translate ImprovedTube. Please, check the wiki page.
You can help us by logging any bugs you find. (As a small team, prioritization is critical, so knowing which issues are impactful for many users or not can help us.)
- BTW, you can check an extension in incognito mode ( chrome://extensions
detailsor chrome://extensions/?id=bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd) ) -In some cases, we might compare the DOM YouTube gives you, by copying the whole<html>root element (includes all children), in the top left of Dev-Tools:
(FireFox:) 
- (There are 2-3 different versions of this depending if you open a new window or clicked a link on YouTube. While the bug might not happen in each of these moments.)
We are volunteers. ImprovedTube is made out of love for our users. Your happiness is the currency of our hearts. We dare to keep ImprovedTube open-source & free, despite it is still a lot of work, that won't stop while YouTube releases updates.
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Bugs, ordered by activity
(also linked in readme.md#to-do + precisely: wiki/todo )- Advanced: label:important & Pinned issues (meaningful).
- Feature Requests (especially: #Set-and-forget, #Plan, #Unique, #Should be crowdsourced, ... )
- Advanced: label:important & Pinned issues (meaningful).
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Use our locale.py to add / change the human language in the extension
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We have some global variables & regex
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We observe the DOM for changes to apply features as soon as certain elements appear
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We have our extension popup's GUI & re-purposable functions in our little library Satus.js
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We react to settings changing immediately, so that we can call the feature before the next page-reload (or possibly an introductiory animation, or undoing a feature that's switched off)
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Testing Browser-Extension changes with 1 click: Extension Reloader & enable the option to reload the current tab too & set a nice shortcut like
alt+Echrome://extensions/shortcuts- Alternatively fully automatic: https://github.com/rubenspgcavalcante/webpack-extension-reloader
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Build script (old)
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- store APIs / github actions/workflows + auto testing #842
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Depending what feature you work on : https://github.com/kdzwinel/DOMListenerExtension, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/visual-css-editor/cibffnhhlfippmhdmdkcfecncoaegdkh, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/editthiscookie/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg
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Q: "Youtube runs up to 3 GUI versions at once, depending what account i use..."
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A: "They might only test changes could be permanent."
- Remedy: we always have the option to sensitively offer GUI on top of Youtube, instead of fiddling to integrate our's: CSS position:fixed or sticky)
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A: "They might only test changes could be permanent."
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The important CSS IDs (& pathes) _should_ stay the same in all current & future YouTube.
Yet, we _could_ predict how Youtube might be renaming some still... An Extension could even search for new names if old ones disappear. More over, regEx can be cheap & even CSS allows some wildcards / 'regular expressions' *= ^= $=
- An editor to compare 3 Versions: Download (Alternatives@Wikipedia)
(Some YouTube versions: archive.org/2021/youtube, 2020, 2019)
- An editor to compare 3 Versions: Download (Alternatives@Wikipedia)
- Pull Requests by command-line:
gh pr create --base master --title "my PR" --body "fixing..."
- Alternatively:hub pull-requestacts as a wrapper forgit) https://github.com/github/hub - (Or if you hate all Pull Requests, we might allow you to make commits after a few PRs)