3Bubbles Greasemonkey Script: Chat Watcher

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to how the chat room works on this site. I definitely think it’s the way to go but I am missing something from the mix. As the owner of the site, I really want notification when I get a new chatter, much like I get an e-mail when a new comment is posted.

While there are a number of other solutions to this problem, and the 3Bubbles team is on the job, I wanted a quick fix now. So I whipped up this script.

Essentially, it checks when you land on a page to see if there are any of the 3Bubbles iframes in use. If it finds them, it pops up a window for that site that lets you see the full list of chats that are present. It updates in real-time since the iframes are copied to that page.

I’ll be improving it when I get time and there’s more things for me to play with, but it does the job for now.

Dowload it here.

If you have Greasemonkey installed, you can right-click on the link and choose “Install User Script”.