Update 2007-02-05:
- since the activation of the new Metafilter url scheme, this bookmarklet is broken; I'm working on a new version :)
Bookmarklet:
- detect deleted Metafilter threads
(update 2006-01-15: now also works for Ask Metafilter)
Drag the link above to your browser's Links toolbar and click it while viewing the Metafilter front page (or one of the archived months); this will open up a new window with links to recently deleted threads (works by detecting the gaps in the sequence of thread ids). Tested in Firefox and IE6.
[Inspired by this MetaTalk thread]
Source code:
javascript:void(A=document.getElementsByTagName('a'), N=[],M=[],f=''); for(i=0;i<A.length;i++){ void(h=A[i].href,p=h.indexOf('/mefi/')); if(p!=-1 && h.indexOf('#')==-1 && A[i].parentNode.tagName.toLowerCase()=='span'){ void(k=h.substring(p+6,h.length),N[N.length]=k,M[k]=1)}} for (i=N[0]; i>N[N.length-1]; i--) { if (!M[i]) f += '<a target=_blank href=http://'+location.host+'/mefi/' +i+'>'+i+'</a>\n'; } void((W=window.open()).document.write('Deleted threads: ' + f));void(W.document.close());