Starlapse: Capture the Light!

[raghav-karn]

BrowserBuddy Extension Submission

Project Details

1. What is the name of your project?
   Starlapse (v2)

2. How many hours did you spend developing this?
   (estimated) 21h

3. What problem does your extension solve, or what makes it unique?
   Starlapse v2 is a complete feature overhaul! It activates a never-before-seen, equipped with proprietary TON-618 technology (:p), ‘Galactic Reader’ — a reader mode for all the astronomy lovers. This special reader mode turns the article you’re viewing into a space-themed site, and can be color-themed based on which galaxy you love the most! This makes it unique.

4. How many people have tested your extension?
   14, including family, friends and random people on the internet.

5. Does your extension work in Chrome and uses Manifest Version 3?
   Currently only supports Manifest V3 and Chrome, not Firefox :(((

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Additional Comments

A heartfelt thanks to Hack Club, Browserbuddy and Josias for giving me such new motive to learn a LOT of new things, I have never been so much into JS than before!

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[raghav-karn]

https://github.com/raghav-karn/starlapse if you need to see the readme and the original repo :)

[crabby605]

Concise Review of PR #241

• Title: "Starlapse: Capture the Light!"
• Purpose: Inverts webpage colors with playful UI/animations.
• Grammar: Informal phrasing (e.g., "i" instead of "I") suggests human authorship.
• Code Style:
  • Creative naming (e.g., addSuckingAnimation).
  • Playful logs/messages (e.g., "Reality successfully consumed! 🌑").
  • Detailed animations (cosmic-drift, starfield) and unique design focus.
• Comments: Minimal (2), but description compensates with detailed reasoning.
• Emojis: Used creatively (e.g., "💥," "✨"), indicating human effort.
• Verbose Names: Concise and logical.

AI-Generated Score: 35/100 (Very low likelihood of being AI-generated).

The PR demonstrates creativity, humor, and informal language, strongly suggesting human authorship, Minir AI assistance was used.

Congratulations bro you officially have the lowest score !

[crabby605]

Concise Review of PR #241

• Title: "Starlapse: Capture the Light!"
• Purpose: Inverts webpage colors with playful UI/animations.
• Grammar: Informal phrasing (e.g., "i" instead of "I") suggests human authorship.
• Code Style:
  • Creative naming (e.g., addSuckingAnimation).
  • Playful logs/messages (e.g., "Reality successfully consumed! 🌑").
  • Detailed animations (cosmic-drift, starfield) and unique design focus.
• Comments: Minimal (2), but description compensates with detailed reasoning.
• Emojis: Used creatively (e.g., "💥," "✨"), indicating human effort.
• Verbose Names: Concise and logical.

AI-Generated Score: 35/100 (Very low likelihood of being AI-generated).

The PR demonstrates creativity, humor, and informal language, strongly suggesting human authorship, Minir AI assistance was used.

Congratulations bro you officially have the lowest score !

@raghav-karn yeah it is, it's the new pipeline im testing. Not deployed publically yet so I'm posting these myself, also the next pr beat your score so it's not the lowest now

[raghav-karn]

Ahh its fine, I’m not here for any competition and am happy for my score as well as your awesome review. Thanks, crabby :). Appreciate you helping Josias!

[crabby605]

Ahh its fine, I’m not here for any competition and am happy for my score as well as your awesome review. Thanks, crabby :). Appreciate you helping Josias!

Real, im not just helping Josias, I'll soon be joining the fraud team and probably all the repos of ysws' will have a CI/CD pipeline that'll check for AI generation and let us know if the score is more than 60 then we do a manual review and then follow up

[raghav-karn]

No manual reviews for score ≤ 60? So Josias will just look into the final result and decide if it it meets the criteria? Also, congrats on becoming a future member of the FD!

[crabby605]

No manual reviews for score ≤ 60? So Josias will just look into the final result and decide if it it meets the criteria? Also, congrats on becoming a future member of the FD!

Manual reviews will exist but it'll make review easier. Fraud team != Fire dept. It's a completely separate team

[JosiasAurel]

Why would I use this over dark reader?

[raghav-karn]

1. its fun and simple. dark reader is little boring and has too many options to confuse many users. think of starlapse like dark reader for kids, has a fun animation and is just one click and boom! the beauty of starlapse lies in its simplicity, its limitations (compared to dark reader) can become its plus points!

2. you could use it over dark reader as like dark reader by default turns all sites dark, but this limitation of starlapse that it doesnt turn every site dark automatically but rather on demand makes sure that the website you are visiting is in the colors the developer of the site wanted it to be, and then its your call to invert the colors or not.

[JosiasAurel]

1. its fun and simple. dark reader is little boring and has too many options to confuse many users. think of starlapse like dark reader for kids, has a fun animation and is just one click and boom! the beauty of starlapse lies in its simplicity, its limitations (compared to dark reader) can become its plus points!
2. you could use it over dark reader as like dark reader by default turns all sites dark, but this limitation of starlapse that it doesnt turn every site dark automatically but rather on demand makes sure that the website you are visiting is in the colors the developer of the site wanted it to be, and then its your call to invert the colors or not.

• "boring and has too many options" that's why people love it? it just works and has options for power users
• you can prevent sites from getting turned dark

[raghav-karn]

1. its fun and simple. dark reader is little boring and has too many options to confuse many users. think of starlapse like dark reader for kids, has a fun animation and is just one click and boom! the beauty of starlapse lies in its simplicity, its limitations (compared to dark reader) can become its plus points!
2. you could use it over dark reader as like dark reader by default turns all sites dark, but this limitation of starlapse that it doesnt turn every site dark automatically but rather on demand makes sure that the website you are visiting is in the colors the developer of the site wanted it to be, and then its your call to invert the colors or not.

• "boring and has too many options" that's why people love it? it just works and has options for power users
• you can prevent sites from getting turned dark

tldr: sorry for a long reply, i am just explaining that it targets people with simple needs

i completely agree, but thats for power users. how about having a stripped down version to introduce people to dark themes. like, you wouldnt want a grandpa to go around finding dark mode setting in website’s settings, so you tell him to use either starlapse or dark reader. if you choose starlapse, he just needs to click on the main button and he’s done and can do it all by himself, but give him dark reader and he’ll go around tweaking settings and then call you out every minute saying “son, my computer is broken!” (i experience this personally almost every other day). so yeah, it is a solution to real world problem — it might not seem to be made for you but the people i have tested this with loved it.

think of starlapse as what youtube kids is to youtube: of course youtube has better set of contents, but its suited for people who can consume that type of content. for kids, they have youtube kids which strips down youtube, there is no logical reason as to why opt for yt kids when you’ve got yt, but yt kids still has millions of downloads.

starlapse does not specifically classify as a “kids only” product, it serves people who just want a simple solution to their simple problem: one click and done. no mess, no tweaking.

[JosiasAurel]

1. its fun and simple. dark reader is little boring and has too many options to confuse many users. think of starlapse like dark reader for kids, has a fun animation and is just one click and boom! the beauty of starlapse lies in its simplicity, its limitations (compared to dark reader) can become its plus points!
2. you could use it over dark reader as like dark reader by default turns all sites dark, but this limitation of starlapse that it doesnt turn every site dark automatically but rather on demand makes sure that the website you are visiting is in the colors the developer of the site wanted it to be, and then its your call to invert the colors or not.

• "boring and has too many options" that's why people love it? it just works and has options for power users
• you can prevent sites from getting turned dark

tldr: sorry for a long reply, i am just explaining that it targets people with simple needs

i completely agree, but thats for power users. how about having a stripped down version to introduce people to dark themes. like, you wouldnt want a grandpa to go around finding dark mode setting in website’s settings, so you tell him to use either starlapse or dark reader. if you choose starlapse, he just needs to click on the main button and he’s done and can do it all by himself, but give him dark reader and he’ll go around tweaking settings and then call you out every minute saying “son, my computer is broken!” (i experience this personally almost every other day). so yeah, it is a solution to real world problem — it might not seem to be made for you but the people i have tested this with loved it.

think of starlapse as what youtube kids is to youtube: of course youtube has better set of contents, but its suited for people who can consume that type of content. for kids, they have youtube kids which strips down youtube, there is no logical reason as to why opt for yt kids when you’ve got yt, but yt kids still has millions of downloads.

starlapse does not specifically classify as a “kids only” product, it serves people who just want a simple solution to their simple problem: one click and done. no mess, no tweaking.

i don't find this to be a strong alternative that brings something new

[raghav-karn]

completely understandable! can i take some time to brainstorm and improve or make another extension from scratch?

[JosiasAurel]

completely understandable! can i take some time to brainstorm and improve or make another extension from scratch?

i'm fine with either direction you take

[raghav-karn]

@JosiasAurel Hey! I have made some major changes to the extension, including new design, new functionality (although staying on the similar lines) and some bugs (:pf:). Please have a look :))

Note: The new ‘Galactic Reader’ works the best on reading articles like news or wikipedia and stuff, it’s not meant for sites like google.

[JosiasAurel]

@JosiasAurel Hey! I have made some major changes to the extension, including new design, new functionality (although staying on the similar lines) and some bugs (:pf:). Please have a look :))

Note: The new ‘Galactic Reader’ works the best on reading articles like news or wikipedia and stuff, it’s not meant for sites like google.

Hey I tried your extension and I'm not sure I get it. It opens a pop up that fills the screen with some text and a counter. Is this it? Can you share a video demo on how to use it?

[raghav-karn]

@JosiasAurel Hey! I have made some major changes to the extension, including new design, new functionality (although staying on the similar lines) and some bugs (:pf:). Please have a look :))
Note: The new ‘Galactic Reader’ works the best on reading articles like news or wikipedia and stuff, it’s not meant for sites like google.

Hey I tried your extension and I'm not sure I get it. It opens a pop up that fills the screen with some text and a counter. Is this it? Can you share a video demo on how to use it?

no no, thats just the popup. you can visit an article like any wikipedia one, and then click on Enter Galactic Mode. the wikipedia article would get transformed to a space-themed reader mode with a stopwatch on top-right-corner (to indicate how much time you’ve spent reading) and a progress bar in the center (to indicate how much % of the article you’ve read). there are also 5 different color themes on the top-left-corner and a Quantum Focus (eye-icon) button beside the timer which amplifies the theme (it is a little bugged tho). there’s also a custom themed scrollbar on the right. if this description matches your experience, then you’re on the right track: that’s it!

(ps: sorry i cant provide a demo screen recording because my laptop cannot even handle that, but i’ll provide screenshots if the above mentioned procedure of visiting a article and entering galactic mode does not work out for you)

[JosiasAurel]

@JosiasAurel Hey! I have made some major changes to the extension, including new design, new functionality (although staying on the similar lines) and some bugs (:pf:). Please have a look :))
Note: The new ‘Galactic Reader’ works the best on reading articles like news or wikipedia and stuff, it’s not meant for sites like google.

Hey I tried your extension and I'm not sure I get it. It opens a pop up that fills the screen with some text and a counter. Is this it? Can you share a video demo on how to use it?

no no, thats just the popup. you can visit an article like any wikipedia one, and then click on Enter Galactic Mode. the wikipedia article would get transformed to a space-themed reader mode with a stopwatch on top-right-corner (to indicate how much time you’ve spent reading) and a progress bar in the center (to indicate how much % of the article you’ve read). there are also 5 different color themes on the top-left-corner and a Quantum Focus (eye-icon) button beside the timer which amplifies the theme (it is a little bugged tho). there’s also a custom themed scrollbar on the right. if this description matches your experience, then you’re on the right track: that’s it!

(ps: sorry i cant provide a demo screen recording because my laptop cannot even handle that, but i’ll provide screenshots if the above mentioned procedure of visiting a article and entering galactic mode does not work out for you)

I see. It works on Wikipedia. But how about on other websites? Like Hacker News or personal blog sites?

[raghav-karn]

it works best on articles, like wikipedia, medium and all, but it is universal and can work across every site. just note that all sites may not look good, like the search bar on google would look bad, or buttons can look bad too. its meant for blogs and articles, where the page mostly contains text to be read and not many interactive elements like buttons, search bar, etc. you can try on any site you wish :)

[JosiasAurel]

it works best on articles, like wikipedia, medium and all, but it is universal and can work across every site. just note that all sites may not look good, like the search bar on google would look bad, or buttons can look bad too. its meant for blogs and articles, where the page mostly contains text to be read and not many interactive elements like buttons, search bar, etc. you can try on any site you wish :)

it tends to break a few sites and make them hard to read. can you fix that?
examples

• lobste.rs
• news.ycombinator.com
• https://blog.cyrneko.eu/everyone-should-copy-thunderbird
• and perhaps a few other i have not tried.

[raghav-karn]

it works best on articles, like wikipedia, medium and all, but it is universal and can work across every site. just note that all sites may not look good, like the search bar on google would look bad, or buttons can look bad too. its meant for blogs and articles, where the page mostly contains text to be read and not many interactive elements like buttons, search bar, etc. you can try on any site you wish :)

it tends to break a few sites and make them hard to read. can you fix that? examples

• lobste.rs
• news.ycombinator.com
• https://blog.cyrneko.eu/everyone-should-copy-thunderbird
• and perhaps a few other i have not tried.

hey! i’m so sorry, i am a little caught-up on my studies lately and cannot find time to continue this work. i might try to fix the issues if i manage to sneak some time, but i cannot guarantee. so if you wish, you could reject my PR, i’m totally fine with it. i have already spent a lot of time of time on this (and really appreciate the learning i got from this). the learning was a win for me, so rejection is not a big deal (but would not complain if i get approved :p). i’m so sorry, i won’t be able to fix the issues at present. you could conclude this PR as approved or rejected :)