Steam Discussion Helper

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Adds new functionality to assist in posting in the Steam Community.This extension is a productivity tool for posting to the Steam Community that saves you a bit of time from having to type out all of the BBCode by hand. It allows you to quickly surround selected text with BBCode tags, as well as offers extra tags (they are plain text tags not built into Steam BBCode that might be useful).

All tag options are added as buttons directly above or below new post text areas depending on the location in Steam, and are also added to a sidebar to allow you to tag text you wish to include in your post as you scroll through a thread with many posts.

This extension should work on (almost) all Steam community discussion areas. This would include: regular Steam discussions, game hub discussions, and group discussions (the buttons are added as long as you have the required permissions to create new discussions). It does not work on the Friend Activity section at the moment, but that is something I would like to add.

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The following explains what buttons are available and what they add:

H1
[h1]selected text[/h1]

B
[b]selected text[/b]

U
[u]selected text[/u]

I
[i]selected text[/i]

Strike
[strike]selected text[/strike]

Spoiler
[spoiler]selected text[/spoiler]

URL
[url=]selected text[/url]

Bullet List
[list]
[*]
[*]
[*]
[/list]

Number List
[olist]
[*]
[*]
[*]
[/olist]

Quote
[quote]selected text[/quote]

No Parse
[noparse]selected text[/noparse]

Code
[code][/code]

Sarcasm
[sarcasm]selected text[/sarcasm]

Off-Topic
[off-topic]selected text[/off-topic]

NOTES:
"selected text" (as used above):
If you select text outside of the text area, that selected text is added to the text area and is surrounded by the selected tag. If you select text within the text area, that selected text is surrounded by the selected tag. The "Code", "Bullet List", and "Number List" tags are only appended to the end of the text area and do not do anything with selected text.

"Quoting":
**v1.5**
When you select text outside of the reply area of a thread and select the Quote tag, the extension will determine the original author's name and the post
ID and surround the selected text with a Quote tag resembling the output of Steam's built-in reply button like so: [quote=authorName;postId]selected text[/quote].
If you select a tag other than the Quote tag, the selected text is surrounded by the selected tag and the selected tag is surrounded by a Quote tag like so:
[quote=authorName;postId][tag]selected text[/tag][/quote].

**Original version**
As of now, quoting selected text does NOT automatically directly link to where the text was selected from. It only adds an empty "quote" tag. I have an
idea for implementing this, but, for now, if you wish to specifically quote the original author, you must do so in your new post.

"Sarcasm":
This tag is not a default BBCode tag and will literally only surround text with "[sarcasm]" and "[/sarcasm]" and could be useful for conveying sarcasm.

"Off-Topic":
This tag is not a default BBCode tag and will literally only surround text with "[off-topic]" and "[/off-topic]" and could be useful for identifying stuff that is off-topic.

The sidebar tags:
I felt this would be useful for "tagging as you scroll", if that makes sense. As you read through a long thread, you can highlight specific things you'd like to tag in your reply.
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Permissions required and explained:
"<all_urls>" - Should only allow the extension to check the url and only applies to Steam Community urls.
"tabs" - Allows the extension to run on multiple tabs and only on the Steam Community.

This extension does not use any personal information at all and I openly suggest you to inspect the code yourself.

I am completely open to adding more features to this extension, as well as allowing others to help develop it as it is open source. If you want to contribute, or just want to check out the code, go here: https://github.com/HHHApps/SteamDiscussionHelper

Thanks for checking out this extension! I hope you like it!

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1.4:
Added "noparse" tag. The extension should now add buttons to new game guides and trading and workshop discussions. A bug regarding buttons not working on new replies should now be fixed.
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1.5:
Fixed some issues with replacing selected text where, if the same text was in the message multiple times, it just used the last instance of the text. It now uses the correct instance. You can also now add tags where you want instead of just adding them to the end. Tags also now automatically quote the original author and post ID when selecting text from another user's post.
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1.6:
The extension should now add buttons to the following areas: profiles, group comments, guide comments, reviews, artwork comments, screenshot comments, video comments, and game announcements/news comments. There are a few issues at the moment that prevent adding the buttons to group announcements as well as Friend Activity.

NOTE: Buttons are only added to comment sections when they are in full-page mode. They are not added to the pop-up dialogs at the moment. So, in order to use the comment buttons, please open the shared file (artwork, screenshot, video) and game announcements in a full tab.
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Upcoming additions:

Buttons added to:
group announcements
friend activity
and more