Programming @programming.dev fossyou @lemm.ee 6 mo. ago

Hey guys, I just wanted to share that I made a browser extension that enhances the ChatGPT UI

It's not the most fancy thing out there, but if you're still using ChatGPT 3.5 and are looking for something a little different, why not give GPThemes a try? It's a free and open-source browser extension for Chrome and Firefox (Desktop and Android) that'll give your ChatGPT website a fresh new look.

WHAT AWAITS YOU:

Modern themes: Light, Dark, and Black (AMOLED) for a stylish and more visually appealing experience.
Effortless theme switching: Change themes on the fly with a single click using floating button. Well, fine, Mr. Nitpicker, technically it's a two-click saga 🥲
Chat bubbles: Modern and sleek conversation design that clearly differentiate your messages from the AI's responses
Clean and spacious layout: No more feeling cramped, just generous spacing and clean lines for smooth chat sessions.
Subtle animations: Enjoy a touch of elegance with subtle animations that enhance readability and flow.

⌛SOON: Custom theming to personalize your chat experience with your chosen accent color, adding a unique touch to your conversations. See the live preview as you're selecting your perfect hue via colorpicker.

SAFE AND TRANSPARENT:

GPThemes requests two permissions:
- Storage: To remember your chosen theme across all ChatGPT pages.
- Access to chat.openai.com (old) and chatgpt.com (new) domain: To modify the website's appearance within ChatGPT.
Open-source code: You can see exactly what GPThemes does.

DOWNLOADS:

(The attached image is only a sneak peek)

29 comments

Not downvoting because I appreciate the effort…but ChatGPT is about as opposite from the ethos of open source as you can get imho. 😄
- Hmm, let's leave GPT and this extension aside for now, those are just themes. But what bothers me here is that it seems (correct me if I'm wrong) you are saying that a closed source platform necessarily makes a foss plugin meaningless?
  
  All right, I'll correct you because you're wrong.
  
  What bothers me is an open source tool enhancing a proprietary service which by its very nature breaks open source licensing and in face copyright protections of all sorts across the entire internet.
Ah, this is my first post, so I wasn't sure if PNG images are supported. I uploaded a JPG instead, so please forgive the broken appearance and white asymmetric edges of the image 🥲

EDIT: reuploaded image
This looks really cool! Is it down voted because people hate ChatGPT or what?
- Yes, I've noticed that even here (on Lemmy), there's been some kind of unfounded downvote culture emerging. I'm not saying it's unfounded in this case, btw. Of course, not everything is to everyone's taste, but generally, there are plenty of downvotes on very high-quality and relevant content. I remember when downvotes were a great way to quickly filter out low-quality content. But now, I'm not so sure.
  
  It seems a bit "lame" that a plugin for a project "fails" if it's not inherently bad, but the project itself is disliked by someone, but okay, it is what it is.
  
  By the way, thanks if you think this is cool. I would definitely love to hear your opinion if you decide to try the extension eventually.
- Correct, ChatGPT is proprietary spyware.
  
  If the interface would support self hosted (local/offline) LLMs, then I'm sure people would be much more interested.
  
  I get that, but OP clearly put a lot of effort into this in a good faith, made it open source, and now when he posts it here, he gets downvoted without any comment (as of when I wrote mine) with reasoning behind it.
  
  Who wouldn't want to afford a PC setup and components that would support local LLMs, there are so many benefits to that.
  
  But the reality is that even when I start Docker, my poor PC turns into a smoker 🥲
- Speaking for myself, yes, mostly that.
  
  Well, I guess I'll just have to take those bullets for ChatGPT then 🥲
  
  EDIT: 'mostly'? Shoot it
- tbh i don't think the theme in rhe screenshot is an improvement, all that excessive padding doesn't look that great
Looks neat, Good work.
I think this is neat.
not that I dislike the project, by why not just a standard userstyle?
Is it better? Or just different?
- From the first post's sentence:
  
  and are you looking for something different
  
  It seems like it all comes down to personal preference. For some, a more modern design is better, while for others it's not, as we can see that here too. It's so hard to know what would be best for you personally without knowing you, but you can help me by sharing that with us
So just new CSS?
- The plan was for it to be just CSS, but as advanced as CSS is today, some things still aren't possible with it alone. Javascript had to come into play, so no, this isn't CSS-only.
  
  But if your intention was to belittle CSS, how rude. I dare you to center a <div>
  
  Oh no, I dare not belittle CSS. I haven't even done any real website development yet. It was all just Rust and Python backends.
I'm not a fan of modern web design at all and by extension of this design, but the idea is a good thing for practice!

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