Reddit User Vibe

About

A browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that gives you an instant vibe of who's commenting. It displays coloured split-pill badges next to Reddit usernames showing their most active subreddits — visible at a glance without leaving the page.

Works on both WWW.REDDIT.COM and OLD.REDDIT.COM.

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HOW IT WORKS

When an author link scrolls into view the extension queries the Arctic Shift API ([https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift](https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift)) to retrieve that user's top subreddits by activity. A huge thank-you to Arthur Heitmann and the Arctic Shift project for making this data openly accessible — this extension would not be possible without it.

NOTE ON ACTIVITY COUNTS: the count shown on each pill represents COMBINED POSTS AND COMMENTS the user has made in that subreddit during the configured time period, not posts-only.

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FEATURES

* SPLIT-PILL BADGES — each badge shows [subreddit | count] with distinct background colours for the subreddit name and the activity count.
* ALL SUBREDDITS — not limited to any specific community; shows whichever subreddits a user is most active in.
* SORTED BY ACTIVITY — pills are ordered highest-count first.
* CLICK TO SEARCH — clicking a pill opens an author-scoped subreddit search (/r/SUBREDDIT/search?q=author:USER) in a new tab.
* VISIBILITY DETECTION — only processes links currently in the viewport; new content loaded by infinite scroll is picked up automatically.
* DE-DUPLICATION — already-labelled links are skipped; concurrent requests for the same username are coalesced into one.
* RATE-LIMIT HANDLING — respects x-ratelimit-* headers; shows a clickable retry badge when paused.
* 1-WEEK CACHE (CONFIGURABLE) — user data is cached in chrome.storage.local and only re-fetched after expiry.
* OPTIONS PAGE — configure API parameters, pill colours, cache duration, and pause/resume the extension without reloading the page.

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OPTIONS

Open the extension's options page (via the browser toolbar or chrome://extensions → Details → Extension options) to customise:

SETTING: NUMBER OF SUBREDDITS
DEFAULT: 10
DESCRIPTION: How many top subreddits to show per user (1–100).

SETTING: TIME PERIOD
DEFAULT: Last 6 months
DESCRIPTION: Lookback window for the API query (1 week → all time).

SETTING: REMEMBER DATA FOR
DEFAULT: 1 week
DESCRIPTION: How long user data is cached before a fresh fetch.

SETTING: SUBREDDIT BACKGROUND
DEFAULT: #6a5cff
DESCRIPTION: Background colour of the subreddit half of each pill.

SETTING: SUBREDDIT TEXT
DEFAULT: #ffffff
DESCRIPTION: Text colour of the subreddit half.

SETTING: COUNT BACKGROUND
DEFAULT: #d93900
DESCRIPTION: Background colour of the count half of each pill.

SETTING: COUNT TEXT
DEFAULT: #ffffff
DESCRIPTION: Text colour of the count half.

SETTING: PAUSE / RESUME
DEFAULT: Running
DESCRIPTION: Temporarily stop annotating links without uninstalling.

A live preview pill updates as you change colours. Click SAVE to persist, or RESET TO DEFAULTS to restore all values.