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🌐 New Site Supported + Quick Design Question (Poll!)
🕑 Added 2025-11-15 22:12:31 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
New update today: the extension now supports the rule34video site. Getting this live turned out to be trickier than I expected, so I wanted to explain what I ran into and then ask for your input on what to develop next.
Quick recap of the work:
The site itself was very flaky recently - lots of timeouts and 502 errors which slowed development down considerably.
The real challenge was that videos actually play inside a modal overlay, not on a dedicated video page. That means the extension can’t rely on a normal page-load initialization and had to hook into the overlay playback - which was fiddly, but I made it work. ✨
One caveat: there’s a site bug where clicking next / prev doesn’t update the URL correctly. Because of that, when you move to the next video the extension can’t detect which video is playing and won’t automatically load the right sync file. So, next/prev won’t work properly on rule34video until the site fixes that behavior. Workaround is to close the modal and click next video manually.
Other fixes & findings:
I discovered a pretty old bug on the-orange-site-we-can-not-name: some actions weren’t being offset by the intro, so they triggered earlier than they should. Odd that nobody reported it before, does anyone even watch there? Anyway, it's now fixed. ✅
Development direction - I need your vote
As a result of previous poll, the progress saving feature was next on my list. But while reviewing videos in the queue I realized the inventory tracking feature (intended for RPG-style videos) actually has much broader usefulness:
Inventory would let you track items, currency/points, HP/mana, buffs/debuffs and let you open your inventory any time to see current values rather than only getting updates when something changes.
I reviewed the already synced videos and found:
7 videos would benefit from inventory tracking (in the base version at least).
5 videos would benefit from both inventory + progress saving.
0 videos would benefit only from progress saving (i.e., progress saving without inventory doesn’t help any video by itself).
Given that, it seems sensible to reconsider the order: inventory may unlock value across more videos and is also a prerequisite for my own JOI video which in the end won the previous poll.
So, what should I do next?
This time very straightforward with only 2 options.
Final notes
Rule34video site support is live; remember the next/prev limitation for now.
I’m slowly working on my JOI video (it needs both inventory and progress saving though, more updates about the video later).
Thanks for reading and for all the input so far - your votes shape the roadmap.
Cast your vote and tell me what you think! 🎯
