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or most of the modding community, wikipedia and much more.

• TeMPOraL 6y ago
  Exactly. Makes me wonder what happened with userscripts lately? Is that community still going? Are there any mechanisms - technological or social - that would let me feel safe about downloading a popular userscript without doing a full-day focused audit of it? I know this can be made to work - modding communities are a perfect example, you can have people dealing with crap and unexpected breakage on a timely basis and releasing trustworthy, high-value code for free. I just feel it didn't happen with userscripts for some reason.
  • capableweb 6y ago
    > Makes me wonder what happened with userscripts lately? Is that community still going? Oh yes, I still run userscripts from time to time. I've started using JS bookmarks more and more though, to control the triggering of user JS code whenever I want, rather than having something to run on each page load. But I think the new webextension stuff that Chrome initially released, and now supported by every major browser, ate the lunch of userscripts.
  • pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
    > Are there any mechanisms - technological or social - that would let me feel safe Yes: if FSF/GNU (or a similar organization in that orbit) ran their own repository of user scripts, in the vein of distros' package repos.