Although this extension is great, it kind of worries me...

[MathEnthusiast314]

A better thing would be to link a local file to desmos and keep auto saving it to that file instead of creating a new graph link by Ctrl+S every 30 seconds or so :(
Will cost too much on desmos servers and is not really worth it because desmos already implemented an "attempt recovery" feature.

[tandpfun]

You probably know a lot mode about Desmos than me, but doesn't every method of saving create a new link?
I do think that I can remove some of the faster savings, like "10s", as those can cause some glitches.

I don't think it'll cause too much of a toll on Desmos, because you can also just hold down "cmd-s" to have the same effect but much faster. If there was a problem, they could implement ratelimits to prevent something like that.

Thank you for your concern though!

[MathEnthusiast314]

Yes, every Ctrl+S creates a new link but that wasn't the point.

The point was that graph links are being created quickly even where subsequent graphs don't differ by a lot.

Destree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vks56T679ZQ&ab_channel=MathEnthusiast314

Sometimes when I render the destree I see huge chunks of the destree when graphs have a lot of graph history. This is mainly due to when users extensively save their graphs and when similarity percentages between versions of the graph is very close to 100%. This is also being done by userscripts and extensions.

Personally I save graphs only after I make a lot of progress on the graph (because we already have the 'attempt recovery' feature if something is lost). The similarity percentage between adjacent versions of my graphs is always <70%.

I also made a discord bot which specifically shows users the differences between graphs and a lot of the times I come across versions whose similarity percentage is 100% which overturns the whole point of showing the differences between graph expressions.

This has to change for projects that work with graph history and it's ideal if there's not much clutter.

[tandpfun]

This makes sense, yeah. I don't think it's going to be easy to detect similarly and stuff (and I don't know if everyone wants that) but I can make it detect if the project has changes before saving.

I think that I need to revisit this and take a better look at how I can better integrate it with the program.

By the way, that's a really cool project!! I hope you don't mind if I poke around the code a bit to better understand desmos programs.

I really appreciate your concerns, expecially from someone who's a lot more experienced with the program!!

[MathEnthusiast314]

Thanks! Yeah I don't mind you poking around the code:)