Listen "“A Couple Useful LessWrong Userstyles” by Alex Vermillion"
Episode Synopsis
As a weirdo, I like to read LessWrong sometimes. There are a few extremely tiny features that I wish the site had that it doesn't. Luckily enough, I know how webpages work, and certain kinds of tweaks are especially easy. I'm attaching two of these here now, and may return to add more later.
Current contents:
LessWrong Vote Hider — Hides all the vote totals on a posts page. Unhides when you hover them.
LessWrong Vote Floater — Makes it easier to vote while you're reading by taking the vote icon from the bottom and making it float on the bottom-right of the page.
How Do I Use These?
You're going to need the ability to inject CSS onto webpages
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. I use Stylus for Firefox, but any mainstream browser is going to have some add-on for this. There appears to be a version of Stylus for Chrome for example.
Userstyles come in a few forms, but mine are going to be dumb CSS, which removes a lot of the need to explain anything.
First, create a userstyle to paste the code into:
In Stylus, you can [...] ---Outline:(00:49) How Do I Use These?(02:04) Snippets(02:07) LessWrong Vote Hider(02:14) LessWrong Vote Floater The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. ---
First published:
January 11th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mQpMqZxJcF2DspyRD/a-couple-useful-lesswrong-userstyles
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Current contents:
LessWrong Vote Hider — Hides all the vote totals on a posts page. Unhides when you hover them.
LessWrong Vote Floater — Makes it easier to vote while you're reading by taking the vote icon from the bottom and making it float on the bottom-right of the page.
How Do I Use These?
You're going to need the ability to inject CSS onto webpages
[1]
. I use Stylus for Firefox, but any mainstream browser is going to have some add-on for this. There appears to be a version of Stylus for Chrome for example.
Userstyles come in a few forms, but mine are going to be dumb CSS, which removes a lot of the need to explain anything.
First, create a userstyle to paste the code into:
In Stylus, you can [...] ---Outline:(00:49) How Do I Use These?(02:04) Snippets(02:07) LessWrong Vote Hider(02:14) LessWrong Vote Floater The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. ---
First published:
January 11th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mQpMqZxJcF2DspyRD/a-couple-useful-lesswrong-userstyles
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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