Greasemonkey Scripts

I posted a couple of Greasemonkey scripts (and bookmarklet equivilents) for FeedLounge on my blog today. Here at FeedLounge we have the following attitude about user scripts:

1. They’re awesome
2. They’re awesome

It’s a high compliment when someone loves a tool enough to take the time to write a customization for it. Of course, if there any scripts that cause performance issues, etc. for the service we’ll try to address them on a case by case basis.

Stephen O’Grady wrote recent blog entries about Gmail and Greasemonkey. Some of the basic points that resonated with me as a service provider were that these scripts are really useful for power users and that, if possible, service providers should do their best to work nicely with the script developers whenever possible. Makes sense to me. As previously mentioned, I’d love to see an outside developer create a notifier app before we get around to it - it’s a win-win situation. Users get the notifier app faster and we can continue working on core features.

Because I think that FeedLounge is the kind of app that people will write scripts for, we’re working hard to try to get naming and other details set before we get into our beta release. Building on top of an application that is still in rather rapid development is a receipe for frustration - both for developers and for users.

I look forward to seeing what kinds of scripts and add-ons people create for FeedLounge.