But what we really really want, is flags next to usernames - so I wrote a plugin for chrome that shows just that.
At first Nikita showed only users their own about page, where everyone could double-check that things were correct. This was even open for a full hour for anyone to see anyone else, but I think I was asleep when that happened. My profile stated correctly how old the account is, and where it was created in the "Date joined" part. Like so:
This is accurate, and not a secret, so I had no problem with that - but a lot of people did. People who bought accounts would obviously want to hide if that account was created in a country they've never been to, for example.
Nikita claimed in a Xeet that this field showed inaccurate data for a lot of users, so they simply removed it.
But what we all really wanted was a simpler way to identify where people are Xeeting from - like a flag by their usernames. So I made one, and this is what it looks like on my account. The US flag before my name. Now when I scroll X using my Chrome browser, I see flags next almost everyones user name.
If you want to use this, simply download these files, X-flag-verified.zip and open it somewhere on your computer.
Then load up chrome://extensions/ in your browser and toggle on "developer mode". Then "Load unpacked" and select the directory x-flag-verified and Bob's your uncle.
Optionally you can remove all the other annoying flags that people put in their profiles, if you simply uncomment the line in content.js below :
Optional: prevent double flags if user already has one in their nameI'm still working on this to see if there are any other fun things that I can add, since the government ID verification doesn't quite work yet, but I'm just too impatient not to share this right now. A lot of caching issues on the X "about page" currently is slowing down my bugtesting. Check back in a day or so and there might be more features.
If you find this useful, I like ko-fi and I like subscribers!
