Features

The TW Power Tools extension offers the following features:

General

Dark theme

Enables choosing between a custom-built dark theme and the vanilla light theme in the Community Console.

Automatic: will use the theme defined in the system settings.
Manual: will add a button to the Community Console that lets you switch the theme.

Community Console | [demo]

Redirect to the Community Console

Redirects all threads opened in Tailwind Basic to the Community Console.

Tailwind Basic

Compact mode

Reduce the whitespace in the UI.

Tailwind Basic, Community Console | [demo]

Attempt to fix performance issues

Best-effort workaround for the issues discussed at pekb/381989895.

Community Console

Minor UI enhancements

Sticky sidebar headers

Makes the headers of the collapsible sections in the sidebar sticky so they don't disappear when scrolling down.

Community Console | [demo]

Hide sidebar by default

Hides the sidebar when opening the Community Console.

Community Console

Highlight announcements notification dot

Shows more prominently the dot that appears in the Community Console when Googlers publish a new announcement.

Community Console

Thread lists

Avatars

Shows avatars of participants next to each thread.

Community Console | [demo]

Notify updates

Shows a non-intrusive notification when a thread list has new updates.

Community Console | [demo]

Infinite scroll

Automatically loads more threads when scrolling down.

The Community Console already has this feature built-in without the need of the extension.

Tailwind Basic | [demo]

Bulk actions

Bulk lock

Adds a button to lock all selected threads at once.

Community Console | [demo]

Bulk move

Adds a button to move all selected threads at once.

Community Console | [demo]

Minor UI enhancements

Sticky bulk actions toolbar

Makes the toolbar not disappear when scrolling down.

Community Console | [demo]

Place expand button in the left

Places the "expand thread" button all the way to the left.

Community Console | [demo]

Increase contrast

Increases contrast between the background of read and unread threads.

Community Console

Threads

Flatten replies

Shows a toggle which lets you disable nested view to display the replies flattened.

Community Console | [demo]

OP messages count

Shows a badge next to the OP's username with the number of messages posted by them.

Tailwind Basic, Community Console | [demo]

Infinite scroll

Automatically loads more replies when scrolling down.

Tailwind Basic, Community Console | [demo]

Change thread page design

Forces showing the new or old thread page design.

The old thread page design is partially broken, but this feature is kept since some PEs rely on it to access some features that are missing in the new design.

Community Console

Bulk actions

Report messages quickly

Adds quick report buttons to all messages, so you can report each one with a single click.

Tailwind Basic, Community Console | [demo]

Minor UI enhancements

Limit image size

Prevents inline images in messages from being taller than the current window.

Tailwind Basic, Community Console

Message composer

Fix link dialog

Patches the bug that incorrectly opens the link dialog multiple times when adding or editing a link.

Community Console

Minor UI enhancements

Fix canned responses popup

Fixes the selection popup that appears when inserting a CR, so it is shown correctly when some CR has a very long title.

Tailwind Basic, Community Console

Old message composer

These features only affect the Community Console's old message composer, which is shown when creating a new thread or canned response, when pressing r inside a thread, or when creating a new reply in the old thread view. The new message composer doesn't suffer from these issues.

Fix drag and dropping links

Allows to drag and drop links to the text editor while preserving the link text.

Community Console

Block saving drafts

Blocks saving drafts of your replies as you type to Google servers in the Community Console.

Community Console

Load draft messages when replying

Enables the enableLoadingDraftMessages Community Console flag, which enables recovering an existing draft saved in the Google servers when you start a new reply.

Community Console

Profiles

Per-forum activity

Shows a per-forum activity chart in profiles.

Tailwind Basic, Community Console | [demo]

Previous posts

Shows a "previous posts" link in user profiles.

Tailwind Basic, Community Console | [demo]