I’ve just finished version 1.0-alpha2 of Assetbarista, my Greasemonkey script for Firefox that attempts to improve the discussion forum of the Achewood cartoon.
New in this version is the ability to preview one’s comments before posting. Assetbar, the system that powers the Achewood forum, supports the BBcode markup language. In the absence of a previewing mechanism, it is easy to make mistakes in the markup syntax, and people who post to Assetbar routinely curse BBcode.
Starting with this second alpha release, Assetbarista adds a button that allows previewing of one’s messages prior to posting.
It would be more impressive to add a WYSIWYG editor, I suppose, but a preview mechanism delivers 90% of the benefit for 10% of the development effort.
