#please computer people help a newbie compsci student out

[ehh-is-the-name]

AO3RDR DOWN?! HELP TECH PEOPLE!

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I was going to post about the lovely BDFI x II tour haul I got and upload my zine BUT NO!! BECAUSE TODAY CAN'T JUST BE NICE AND FUN!!

FUCKING CHROME ALMOST DELETED MY UBLOCK EXTENSION (which is really bad) AND MY AO3RDR EXTENSION (which is down right evil)!!!

My ao3 extension is already on its last legs. The summary grabber, "sort by rating/author/fandom" buttons, and the search function have not worked in like 4 years. All of which is fine because it stores fics I've read in an easy-to-reach place, while also showing me my ratings for said fics ON the archive itself. It's a system that has been with me before I even had an account on the archive, so I'm really attached. The issue with them fucking with my ao3 extension is I just got around to reading more, which means I've been adding more bookmarks to it really recently. The last time I saved my data was March, so yeah. Chrome blocking me from saving my data would've lost me SO much new fic info if it wasn't for some internet scowering I wouldn't have been able to grab it (note, those experimental flags will def be gone in a while, so do at your own risk). But I digress, sure, it's great that I was able to get the data through roundabout means, but CHROME SHOULDN'T BE BLOCKING MY FUCKING EXTENSIONS TO BEGIN WITH!!!

I don't care if it violated your policy so many moons ago, I don't care if the extension barely works as advertised. It's my computer, my data, and my shit to deal with!!! Don't fuck with my fics!!! I've already got a shit memory and that little star thing having a rating is what keeps me from re-reading fics over and over again (not that that's a bad thing, never a bad thing, it's just not helpful when you're actively trying to find new fics with very specific tags).

How am I supposed to know that [Insert fic name here] was something I didn't like if I don't see

underneath the description? OR how am I supposed to know where I left off if I don't see

hanging out when I'm looking through chapters?? I'll tell you- I'm not going to know unless I spend my tiny amount of free time re-reading it!!

And I'm trying to get this to work under the developer mode in chrome, but there's 3 different manifest files and chrome doesn't build it unless I change the manifest.jason-chrome file to manifest.jason. But when I do that, the import data doesn't work which is like the only thing I need to work really. I just wanna import it and have it work- but I don't know how everything's connecting under the hood.

LIke what the fuck do I do with these???

They say to do ./build-chrome.sh but I don't know what that means or where to do that??? Apparently it's for Lunix??? Is... Is this bash??? I'm so lost and I just want to make sure my extension works forever and ever.

I don't even use the cloud function, I just use it locally, so I'm even more confused about why the buttons don't work anymore!

And sure- yeah, I could just man up and update my system of fic keeping--the extension stopped getting support in 2018--but literally the little star ratings work so well for me I'm desperate to keep it how it is.

Maybe I should switch from Chrome... maybe.........