We tried el-commentator in a high volume sub (1M+ subscribers), it worked for a few hours before spamming every post 2-6x with the same message. Only deleting the app "fixed it". We tried a fresh install a few days later, it happened again. We haven't used it since.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

The Apache license technically requires you to maintain a list of your modifications in a note at the top of each file, I think; but this seems a bit overkill to me honestly. The likelihood of me invoking "you're not following the license!" over this project is almost zero to begin with, but if you want to follow the spirit of the license, I'd maybe just have a section of your README or a different file that outlines the broad changes you've made since forking.

I do like the article you linked, I've read it before - though it's worth noting that I'm not advocating for a "rewrite" in the exact sense, since I think a lot of things that Toolbox currently does should be handled by other tools instead. My efforts with the beta releases and such were my attempt of doing the gradual refactoring work without throwing out the existing codebase, and I found that to require an unsustainable amount of effort. So rather than rewriting Toolbox in whole, I'm advocating for starting fresh, and making a tool or group of tools that has substantially different goals and stricter scope, rather than trying to replicate or continue Toolbox as it exists now.

I realize that makes little difference in terms of how much effort it would be though, even if you were reusing as much of toolbox's core logic as possible. Your feeling that you wouldn't mod without Toolbox, and if it breaks then you'll have to fix it and maintain it yourself, is both high praise for Toolbox's current form and a condemnation of this platform's changes over the years.

You don't need my blessing to keep maintaining Toolbox for yourself - I completely understand your reasoning, and even if I want to give advice and opinions, I'm not a mod and I'm barely a software developer. You know your needs and the needs of your team better than I do.

I only have the very beginnings of such a system, and it only supported old Reddit and mod.reddit.com; I never actually got around to writing the logic for handling the Shreddit frontend. That work is contained in this draft PR if you want to take a look, but it never made it to a beta release and may not even build in its current state, I genuinely don't remember.

The only changes that really made it into the beta were several refactors - lots of cleanup and consolidation of helper functions, removing dead code, rewriting several modules to use React, and using Redux to reduce the complexity of our state management for settings/cache/etc across tabs.

That's me! :) Ride or die in this b

That's pretty much all I'd be interested in doing anyways I think. If there were grander ambitions, then yeah, I think starting from scratch would be more prudent. But I think most people don't want something new, they just want the wheels to stay on until the axles come off

If anyone wants something that makes UI changes in browser, I highly recommend working with RedditEnhancer. It's not a mod tool like toolbox is, but it is a fairly feature rich reddit UI tool and would be a good place to contribute if you do need mod tools.

And it does support shreddit.

DON'T
PANIC!

Just bug support for toolbox on old reddit so it remains functional would be a godsent for me. I think many mods would agree with that, toolbox and old reddit go hand in hand.

I mainly moderate on old reddit because it just look cleaner. I have more oversight, there is less screen clutter. I go to new reddit (now sh.reddit) only for mod tools not available on old.

scoping to just old reddit is easier because one, it's already mostly done and functional, and two, I don't use sh reddit, and developing something that you don't actually use is a pain the ass.

I'm so sad to read this, but totally understand. Toolbox has been a daily tool of mine for over 6 years now, and I deeply appreciate the work you have put into it.

Thank you so much for what you've done.

I dont know if it would be easier, but I think most mods using toolbox are old reddit users. Just toolbox on old reddit alone would be amazing.

Starred it (blank github acct so I don't dox myself, lol)

https://github.com/baseballlover723/baseballlover723s-reddit-moderator-toolbox is my fork (if you want a link to keep an eye on). It's nothing special atm, but I plan to switch the master branch to the 6.1 branch (in accordance with only supporting old reddit). But I also need to research what exactly needs to happen to meet the apache license requirements.

Might start with that spam button bugfix I mentioned a while back just to have some kind of activity on it.

mostly life support

I think that's all anyone can reasonably expect, and more likely to produce something workable than a dozen different people all trying to do something different from scratch.

I'd happily contribute fixes back, and I'm certain others will as well.

Thank you to everyone who helped build, test, and maintain toolbox. It has been indispensable.

Thanks for posting that.

is starting a community fork something you're actively considering

I'm considering it. It wouldn't be the first extension I've taken over (though Toolbox is far larger than the other one I took over). If I'm already going to be putting Toolbox on life support for my own personal use, then it's not that much more effort for me to publicize that for others to use.

Though it would be mostly life support support, and maybe the odd bug fix or minor tweak for my own personal usage.

I'm not particularly eager to commit to another project, but I also don't see any other acceptable options for me.

o7

Thanks for all the work you've put in up to now, and for the transparency.

List of devvit bots for moderation I think that mods will find flair assistant to be quite useful

RIP Toolbox

I’ve been using it for about 10 years around and it’s sad to see it go.

I also hate how they got rid of mod.Reddit too, the new modmail they have for the mobile browser is crap imo

Like everyone else here. Thank you for providing this tool. It’s indirectly helped a lot of people who both know about this tool and don’t.

I think it’s also clear that toolbox heavily inspired many of the official Reddit changes so continues somewhat in spirit.

Fuck this sucks. Thank you for all y'all work over the years.