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@RobinPourtaud RobinPourtaud released this 11 Oct 07:03
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Sideline v0.2.0

YouTube comments, on screen. This release adds smarter repeat handling and smoother scrolling, and opens Sideline to contributors.

Sideline scrolling comments

What’s new

  • Quiet, Balanced, or Lively. Quiet remembers repeated chat for 60 seconds; Balanced groups five-second bursts; Lively keeps individual messages. Forty matching greetings become one Hello +39.
  • Matching without the noise. Case, punctuation, and symbols are ignored while symbol-only reactions, custom media, and paid messages retain their identity.
  • Smooth count updates. Counters change in place, with reserved width and no animation restart. Resizing keeps comments at their current positions and updates spacing for the new player width.
  • Likes on timed reactions. Available like counts appear alongside loaded timestamped comments.
  • A more welcoming project. New README, user and contribution guides, issue templates, and a refreshed set of real-interface screenshots and promotional assets.

About half of Sideline was vibe-coded with AI assistance. The source is open for inspection and improvement, and all contributions are welcome: bugs, translations, cleanup, design, and browser testing.

Download and install

File Use
sideline-0.2.0-chrome.zip Extract, then select Load unpacked in chrome://extensions with Developer mode enabled.
sideline-0.2.0-firefox.zip Extract, then load manifest.json through about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox. This unsigned development build is temporary and lasts until Firefox restarts.
sideline-0.2.0-sources.zip Reviewer/build source with the lockfile and BUILDING.md; use Node.js 24+.
SHA256SUMS.txt Checksums for the three downloadable archives.

Desktop builds require Chrome 120+ or Firefox 142+. Android is not included in the store compatibility declaration.

Open or reload a YouTube watch page and click the Sideline player icon. Store publication follows each store’s review process; a GitHub release does not imply store approval or a Mozilla signature.

Privacy and scope

Comment processing remains local. No Sideline account, backend, analytics, or comment uploads. Repeat history is bounded and stays in memory. Sideline reads loaded comments; it does not scan every comment or include replies. See the user guide, privacy policy, and changelog.

The release is checked with unit, fixture-browser, package, and secret scans. Tests and synthetic burst measurements do not guarantee smoothness on every live stream. The remaining node-forge development-tool advisory is documented in SECURITY.md; patched shell-quote and source-map-js versions are included in the lockfile.

Verified release checks

The final revision passed all six CI jobs: 80 shared tests in each of Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit, two installed Chrome tests, installed Firefox smoke, and unit/build/package checks. View the final CI run. Both reviewer-source builds reproduce their packages byte-for-byte. Full history secret scanning found no leaks.

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