About Hubdub Extensions
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What are Hubdub Extensions all about?
Since further development of new and enhanced functionality on Hubdub News Prediction Website has been reduced to a minimum, it's up to us, the community of hubdub players, to make Hubdub an even better experience.
Sadly, we cannot modify the Hubdub application as it is ran on servers that we cannot access.
There is a solution, though: Implementing the functionality in a way that it does not rely on Hubdub servers. This means, that any programmatic change or addition must be executed on the client, eg. in the browser of the Hubdub user.
This can be accomplished using the Greasemonkey plugin for the Mozilla Firefox browser. It provides an environment in which programmers can develop scripts to be applied to specific web pages.
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It's free! It warrents your privacy!
The Hubdub Extensions are developed and offered to you by the Hubdub user kruijs, or, in real life: Constantinus van der Kruijs. There is no company behind the scripts, and no commercial or financial interests exists. The usage is free of any fee or other cost.
Usage is not profiled, no user data is stored permanently, no information is passed to third parties.
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What Hubdub Extensions are available?
User created scripts for website customization are often published for installation on a website named userscripts.org. Hundreds of scripts for countless websites (online games for example) are already available there.
Therefor, any script to extend the Hubdub website should also be deployed right there. To find them, you can browse the library by Hubdub-Tag, or navigate to Hubdub at userscripts.org. Additionally, if you are a registred user of userscripts.org you are welcome to join the Hubdub Addicteds group.
Note: These user scripts are not a part of the website and are not officially supported nor endorsed by Hubdub. Do not ask Hubdub if you encounter problems with any script as they will not be able to help you.
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Great! How do I get them?
Please be sure that you have the Greasemonkey plugin for your Firefox browser installed.
Installing userscripts is fairly easy. Just click on the "install" button shown on any script details page of userscripts.org. A confirmation dialog will show up, displaying the name of the script and a brief description, as well as a list of URL filters. This list of filters tells you, on which URLs the script is applied. Only if a web page which matches one of these filters is accessed in the browser, the script will be activated.
The script will normally be fully functional directly after installation and without any configuration.
Done! Anything else is script dependend. Please refer to the discription of the specific script if you are not sure how it works.
Note: If you distrust the publisher, or if you are curios about what kind of script you are installing you can click "show source". Since the script is executed in the context of your visit to a website it can be used to "steal" private information. But because scripts are stored on the computer in plain text, they can be examined to find "evil" code.
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I'm not sure, can I get additional info?
Yes, of course. If you are member of userscripts.org, you could start a discussion or post an issue on the specific script. You could also become member of the Hubdub Addicteds group and open a new topic in the group forum.
If you are an hubdub member, the easiest way would be to leave a shout on my profile page.
Whenever you'd prefer to contact me directly, you could use the contact form on my homepage or send me an email .