Usable Pirates

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Usable Pirates is a third-party Greasemonkey script for use with Firefox Mozilla browsers that alters the appearance of the forums to increase certain usability aspects.

It is maintained by Shark.

List of enhancements

This is a list of the changes Usable Pirates implements.

For thread lists:

  • Removed the preview text
  • Made the "First Unread" link less intrusive
  • Re-formatted the date
  • Cleaned up the last column to make it a single line
  • Re-sized thread icons to make the rows thinner
  • Changed link colors and removed underlines to improve readability

For individual threads:

  • Added a "Stop animation" link to kill animated avatars
  • Removed weird font colors from view/reply counts
  • Increased username font size
  • Made post titles more subtle
  • Replaced "Reply" and "Quote" links with buttons and put them on the same line
  • Added extra space before sigs
  • Decreased sig font size
  • Decreased edit note font size
  • Stripped broken BBCode from sigs
  • Cleaned up and re-arranged the info links area
  • Made quotes clearer

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