There are quite a lot of 2ch browsers out there which a lot of 2ch users use for more convenient ways to browse 2channel:

http://monazilla.org/

I was wondering whether it would make sense to take one or more of those browsers into account for browing Kareha based boards and if getting in contact with the developers would be helpful (if possible) for that cause.

This is a good idea and would make Kareha-boards much smoother to read.

I've used bbs2chreader for some time now, and it shouldn't be to hard to create something like that for browsing Kareha-boards.

Actually, I think we Anonymous users should be able to do some work ourselves. I've thought about modifying bbs2chreader to work with Kareha, but since I know absolutely nothing about making Firefox-plugins, it hasn't progressed at all.

I love love the idea of gathering a team of programmers and create applications for use with Kareha.

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Making an extension from scratch is tricky, but modifying an existing one is easy: The .xpi file is really just a zip file, that usually contains a metadata file and a .jar file, which once again is just a zip file. Inside that, you'll usually find the javascript source for the extension, which is easy enough to hack.

Well, it probably won't be happening anytime soon and I have never used a 2ch browser, but here are some features I'd really like to see in a browser with which to browse Kareha based boards:

• Customizable navigation bar by removing/adding boards to it
• Show link content (at least >># links) content by hovering over them.

(As seen on http://makimo.to/2ch/index.html)

• Subscribing to threads (with option for auto-subscribing by replying),

probably putting them in some kind of bookmark folder

PS: Links to 2ch browser firefox extensions I know of:

bbs2ch
http://bbs2ch.sourceforge.jp/

Moz2ch
http://moz2ch.sourceforge.jp/

• Ability to filter thread lists by words, esp. [tag] and 【tag】 and (customizable) optional graphic replacements for them (like post icons on Fark or SA).

• Ability to set custom values for usual l50 links (like l20, l40, etc.)

• Ability to "ignore" certain posts by ID code or tripcode (replacing the post with "aborn" or "ignored" or whatever).

Expanding on this:

> * Subscribing to threads (with option for auto-subscribing by replying),
> probably putting them in some kind of bookmark folder

It would also be good to be able to automatically start reading a thread from where you made your last reply. I know some people only use names/tripcodes because they when they come back to a thread, they want to easily jump to the point up to which they have already read the thread.

This could probably even be made more convenient somehow.

The >>q feature of Kareha kind of already takes care of this, but I still think it would be nifty to somehow have a quick summary of who refers to a certain post (should also include posts refered to in range quotes).

Kita, a linux 2ch reader.
(needs kde libaries and qt)
http://kita.sourceforge.jp/