v4.7.1

Highlights:

Microsoft Edge Support (huge thanks @BenMcGarry and @erikdesjardins)
Massive infrastructure overhauls towards faster development, faster startup times (massive thanks @erikdesjardins, @mc10)
IndexedDB storage for Firefox: more stable than simple-storage (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Chrome storage improvements: increased performance and unlimited capacity (previously 5 MB) (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Show Images overhaul (huge thanks @larsjohnsen)
i.redd.it and redditmedia image support
A ridiculous amount of hard work from @erikdesjardins, @mc10, @larsjohnsen, @githue, @matheod, @thybag
Contributions from many other members in the community

See all pull requests merged for this version (300+) or browse by commit (1400+).

New Features and Enhancements

Custom comment depth (per subreddit) (thanks @bmalnad, @erikdesjardins)
Link to xpost subreddits in post taglines (thanks @br4nnigan)
Show a preview of the link title when scrolling up on comments pages (thanks @githue)
Media hosts:
- Twitch.tv (thanks @erikdesjardins)
- Twitch.tv clips (thanks @BenMcGarry, @erikdesjardins)
- deviantART stash (thanks @erikdesjardins)
- I.redd.it (thanks @andytuba, @erikdesjardins)
- Redditmedia (thanks @erikdesjardins)
- Reddituploads (thanks @erikdesjardins)
- Dailymotion (thanks @erikdesjardins)
- JSFiddle (thanks @erikdesjardins)
- Instagram (thanks @erikdesjardins)
- Gyazo (thanks @erikdesjardins)
- Bime.io (thanks @yoannmoinet)
- Vidlit (thanks @billmalarky)
- Simplecove (thanks @SimpleCove)
- Twimg (links to twitter images; may end with :large) (thanks @erikdesjardins)
- Graphiq (thanks @iampueroo, @thybag)
- Pixpit (thanks @kingreza)
- Spotify (thanks @anhallbe, @erikdesjardins)
- Strawpoll.me (thanks @thybag)
- iloopit (thanks @rapkin)
- Derpibooru (thanks @Ajedi32)
- Radd.it improvements (thanks @listentous)
- Giphy video/code improvements (thanks @empyrical)
- Flickr improvements (thanks @Saturate)
- YouTube improvements (thanks @corylulu)
- Soundcloud improvements (thanks @corylulu)
- Xkcd (thanks @thybag)
- Wikipedia (thanks @thybag)
- Codepen (thanks @erikdesjardins)
- Oddshot improvements (thanks @pmlocek)
- Gifv inside imgur albums (thanks @larsjohnsen and @erikdesjardins)
- Option to load lower-resolution imgur images (for slow/metered connections) (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Show Media UI enhancements
- Playback controls (play/pause, progress bar, seek) (thanks @larsjohnsen)
- Host branding and settings link (thanks @andytuba)
- Rotate and image search tools (thanks @thybag, @andytuba)
Optionally show all comment sort options (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Tidier settings console deep links (thanks @corylulu)
Filter a subreddit from command line (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Quick Link navigation menu from multireddit navigation bar (thanks @andytuba)
Option to hide “subscribe to thread” button for New Comments Count (thanks @jkcchan)
Custom filter by logged in user (thanks @morgil)
Option to truncate long titles to one line (thanks @jkcchan)
Option to show the comment collapse button in the inbox (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Add orangered and periwinkle (cornflowerblue) user tag colors (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Add a button to quickly filter visited links on a page (thanks @larsjohnsen)
Allow custom destinations for the reddit logo link (thanks @andytuba)
Option to navigate comments by tagged users (thanks @dzamie)
The subreddit hover info now appears for full links (thanks @rageandqq)
Allow max media width and height to be defined as a percentage of viewport size (thanks @larsjohnsen)
Vote Enhancements will now interpolate custom score colors (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Keyboard Nav non-linear scroll style (moving to parent, siblings, etc.) can now be customized (thanks @erikdesjardins, @larsjohnsen)
RES will now warn you if it detects multiple instances of itself running (thanks @andytuba)
New Keyboard Nav shortcut “moveDownParentSibling” to move to the parent’s next sibling (thanks @larsjohnsen)
New “middle” Keyboard Nav scroll style (thanks @larsjohnsen)

Bug Fixes

Hovering over “Commenting as [username]” shows user info (thanks @erikdesjardins)
New troubleshooting tools (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix vote weights being selectable in comment text (thanks @empyrical)
Fix live preview not linking u/username and erroneously rendering some HTML entities (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Localized dates and timezones improved (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix character limits on ban messages being inaccurate after a reddit change (thanks @erikdesjardins)
YouTube video times work again (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix occasionally adding multiple “view images” tabmenu items (thanks @githue)
Fix the nightmode background color of permalinked posts (thanks @ScoreUnder)
Fix “new comments” notification not appearing (thanks @andytuba)
Fix account switcher dropdown arrow misalignment (thanks @thybag)
Fix “clippy” option (“drag to expand” tooltip) couldn’t be disabled (thanks @DrLeh)
Mitigate the effect of accidental drags on dashboard widgets (thanks @educcjr)
Fix expandos not appearing for spotlighted posts (thanks @thybag)
Fix nightmode styles in self-serve ad area (thanks @TimHarrison)
Fix highlightFirseCommenter not working for newly loaded comments (thanks @brandonpatrick)
Fix some image captions not being displayed (thanks @Ajedi32)
Fix visitedStyle option couldn’t be fully disabled (thanks @githue)
Fix Never Ending Reddit banner message not updating when paused after a refresh (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix table sorting bugging out when table headers contained complex markdown (thanks @githue)
Prevent commentHoverBorder from shifting comments around on hover (thanks @Zunon, @erikdesjardins)
Fix the toggleChildren keyboard shortcut automatically triggering followLink on comments pages when the post was selected (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Prevent new comment counts from duplicating (thanks @thybag)
Fix Context module not applying to modqueue-like pages (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix the inbox / back to top buttons overlapping the Big Editor window (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix the ignored icon on the User Tagger table on the dashboard (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix pinHeader calculating incorrect header heights in some subreddits (thanks @githue)
Fix spacing between estimated upvote count and label (thanks @corylulu)
Fix User Tagger dialog layout issues (thanks @githue)
Fix scrollStyle: ‘top’ not scrolling far enough near the bottom of the page (thanks @larsjohnsen)
Fix images opening in a new tab after resizing in some situations (thanks @larsjohnsen)
Remove an unneeded style on .userTagLink causing problems in some subreddits (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix pages being detected as search pages if the link title started with “search” (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix reports being unreadable in nightmode (thanks @githue, @erikdesjardins)
Fix autocompletion not working with u/ and r/ prefixes (thanks @Antrikshy)
Fix radd.it embed links including an extra slash (thanks @listentous)
Fix the hide keyboard shortcut not working to unhide posts (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix “source” buttons being added to the same comment multiple times (thanks @andytuba)
RES now respects the non-looping flag for imgur .gifv (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix No Participation warning notification “more details” not staying open when hovered upon (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix creating invalid image links for some giphy.com URLs (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix “use selected title” overlapping with the comment count on the submit page (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix filteReddit allowNSFW option doing nothing (thanks @larsjohnsen)

###Housekeeping / Other

Code infrastructure overhaul, massive thanks @erikdesjardins and @mc10
- Start-up speed improvements
- ES6+ all the code (async functions <3)
- Webpack all the modules
- SCSS for nearly all the CSS
- Templates for nearly all the HTML
- Consolidate build/run scripts into npm
- Automated linting/testing
Dynamically throttle DOM operations based on browser performance (thanks @LiterallyWTH)
Snudown-js upgrade (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Brand new icons (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Fix date tests (thanks @MrP)
Create expandos for more imgur URLs (thanks @erikdesjardins, @andytuba)
Clean up some module and option descriptions (thanks @githue)
User tagger gracefully handles some badly-formatted username links (thanks @githue)
Change an alt attribute to title to fix a spec violation (thanks @ljcl)
Correctly remove the size prefix from all imgur image links
Never Ending Reddit will unpause when clicking “open next page” (not when loading a new page inline) (thanks @helarqjsc)
Clean up some unnecessary CSS rules that could make it harder to style RES (thanks @githue)
Improve efficiency of Show Images conserveMemory (thanks @thybag, @larsjohnsen)
Improve performance of “view images” initial toggle (thanks @larsjohnsen)
Cleanup and make more consistent the CSS for RES menus (thanks @githue)
Ensure that RES custom alert messages stay on screen and scrollable (thanks @githue)
Tidy up and simplify Never Ending Reddit notifications (thanks @githue)
Fix numerous Edge bugs before release (thanks @BenMcGarry)
Improve smoothness of image resizing when dragging (thanks @larsjohnsen)
Tweak doNoCtrlF option description (thanks @andytuba)
Apply doNoCtrlF to “comments” links in sidebar (thanks @andytuba)
Support more YouTube link formats (thanks @corylulu)
Remove now-unused unsafe-content-script permission in Firefox (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Add .res-hasNewComments to .thing containing .newComments for ease of styling (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Replace some loading icons with a simpler spinner icon (thanks @githue)
Update to jQuery 3 (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Simplify No Participation module and harden against malformed URLs (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Clean up readme (thanks @BenMcGarry)
Centralize RES logo and CSS button icons (thanks @BenMcGarry)
Move commentBoxes into a new module (thanks @githue)
Reduce latency of removing subreddit styles on pageload (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Eliminate Ruby dependency for Sass/SCSS linting (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Apply a body class .res-userHighlight when User Highlighter is enabled, so subreddit themes can conditionally style usernames (thanks @erikdesjardins)
Updating naming “link karma” -> “post karma” in light of recent reddit changes (thanks @BenMcGarry)
Add help/info to reddit help/beta submit page (thanks @andytuba)
The [l=c] button on post taglines is now hidden by default (thanks @andytuba)