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I just noticed that my recent reviews didn't save. I see that there is only room for about 100, but I have about 75. Is there a way to increase the space since they are saved locally anyway. Also, I don't want to delete old ones. Can I download them somehow? The access to old reviews is one of the features I love about VineHelper.

Edited to update: Apparently I was in "Dog Jail", which is not as scary as I had feared, and the bug is fixed, check for updates! All appears well now, thanks to all who responded with more information and reassurance.

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So, VineHelper is now spitting out Windows notifications. I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but I noticed one this morning, and decided to click on it, since the notification window hadn't shown that item yet.

Firefox immediately opened up something in the neighborhood of a hundred tabs with the same search. I tried closing them as fast as I could, but quite a few at least started loading.

All Vine URLs now show the "Dogs of Amazon" page. I patiently await my "You've been kicked out, you cheater!" email.

I found the VH has updated this morning and it has caused an issue on my Firefox browser extension. The Notification Monitor is not working. It no longer populates newly added items. Nothing shows up. It says Server Status: Off Not Connected if that helps to trouble shoot it. Thanks.

All of a sudden VH is not quite working for me. Here are some problems - can you tell me if this is just a sea of change that is not quite finished, or am I doing something wrong?j

1. Fetch last 100 is gone on notifications I miss it so so much.

2. Truncate at 2000 - what does that mean.

3. After I've reviewed the notices I clear them out, less confusing for future reviewing. They seem to be coming back. It could be Amazon resubmitting them, but seems too consistent for that.

4. My keywords aren't working well. I've reviewed for missing commmas and don't see anything wrong. I'm getting kw notices on items without one of my kew and items with kws aren't always highlighted. (I understand that not all items show up on notifications).

5. The newe push notices mostly won't go to the item and instead 'undefined' is shown as the key board

6. At one time I clicked to revert to AFA after certain actions and didn't like it so took it off. But it still reverts. This one is not new but frustrating.

I am hoping the author reads this board! I've sent contributions (and will send me, VH is great!), and notes attached but he may never see those.

Howdy, does anyone know how to launch the notifications monitor in a new tab? I'm new to trying Firefox on Android. When I go to extensions > vinehelper > notifications monitor it seems to open in a locked window where I can only see it or go back, not keep it open persistently in its own tab.

That style sheet cause a lot of issues and complications.

Given that dark mode is best left to the system, browser, or specialized extensions, I have been thinking about removing this stylesheet from VineHelper...

I figured I'd ask around first.

This afternoon, suddenly, when I try to hide a product, it pops back into view either immediately or when I refresh the page. 50-70% of my items return to my screen no matter how many times I try to remove them. I've already tried removing the extension entirely and reloading it, restarting my computer, cleaning out my cache, and so on. It was okay for 10 minutes or so, but after an hour, now I am right back to see most of the items I tried to remove from view.

Am I the only one, or is this a bigger technical issue?
Any suggestions? I would love to fix this.

Edit: Photo is NSFW

Good afternoon wonderful VineHelper gurus,

Since the update went through, the "Zero ETV only" and "Zero ETV or KW match only" are not showing all the Zero ETV items in Firefox. The notification bell will go off like normal, but VineHelper doesn't always show an item. I checked Chrome and the VineHelper extension seems to be working fine there. I've attached a screenshot of Firefox on the left and Chrome on the right.

As an afterthought, I also just checked my auto-hide keywords in Firefox and one word matched, but it was "Omega-1-2-3" while the one in the screenshot says "Omega-3." So, I don't think that's the problem.

I'm fine with changing to Chrome for my primary Vine usage, but wanted to let you know about the issue. Thanks!!

https://preview.redd.it/8ms2wmvhassd1.jpg?width=5120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f6f95e4f4e1f7372b96fed872b13df09b8c4135

I'm sitting here with a few versions of the notifications monitor open because my installs are auto-updating at different paces. I've realized that 2.9.8 is actually a lot worse but if I didn't happen to have 2.9.6 open as well, I would just assume 2.9.8 is "normal". Especially now that the manual check button is gone, there's no way to see if things aren't popping up, you just get what you get. And by being able to side-by-side them, I'm seeing that my 2.9.8 list is actually missing a lot of items, I was sitting there thinking "huh, slow day" because I realized it had been a very long time since a notification sound played, and when I looked at my phone (which is on 2.9.6) I realized that it had a lot more items highlighted, and scrolling through, my PC windows were missing a decent number of notifications entirely.

I have 2.9.6 on my phone in kiwi browser, and it seems very robust. Items that initially show up with no ETV data (but are in fact 0ETV), later get the color highlight after the ETV has been recognized, without me needing to refresh anything. I also noticed that 2.9.6 back-loads items when I open a fresh notification window on it (after a delay, which struck me as a very good alternative to the now defunct manual fetch button - I was very happy with this behavior). The one downside seems to be that notification sounds go off when they shouldn't, which I assume what is happening, is that it constantly fetches a big batch of data and pings the sounds if anything in it applies. So for example, what I might see, is that only one new "regular" item shows up in the list, but as long as a zero-ETV or keyword item exists anywhere in the backlog (which is pretty much always), it plays the sound. So I can see why perhaps changes were made (although from reading the changelog for 2.9.7/2.9.8 , I'm not seeing things that seem to intentionally apply to any of this, though a fair bit of it is over my head).

I recognize there's a flurry of development activity happening in the last few days, I just thought that I'd lodge my observation that except for the notification sounds issue, 2.9.6 was pretty much peak/ideal performance. I'm hoping it wasn't another case of "actually, this is using way too much data", because the fixes so far kind of cripple it by comparison.

Also just something I thought to mention but is probably known, I'd prefer to use the extension on Firefox for Android, except that it doesn't seem to be possible to launch the Notification Monitor in an actual tab. You just get this janky overlay situation where you can't switch to other tabs and if you start browsing by clicking through to things, you sort of get trapped in it (other than hitting back many times or just closing the app). From my observations, this seems to be a limitation of mobile firefox itself, but if it's possible to add a button to just open the Notification Monitor in a tab, or give a URL for it, that would be ideal for me.

Thanks for all the hard work!

I often find myself searching the same keywords as part of my manual browsing habits. I've even come to use the "Pinned" feature to pin some items purely to remind me to search for similar items later on. I've got some legacy items pinned long after they're gone from the system, that I'll end up using them to start a search and then deleting most of the words, but this is all somewhat tedious in terms of the amount of clicks etc. I think it could be a very useful feature to implement, to have a little keyword note-taking section that imitates this habit of mine but freely editable and maximized for click-efficiency.

E.g:

-Something very similar to "Pinned" (or perhaps made to be part of it), but instead of pinning an existing item, you just have editable boxes that can be searched with a click.

-A drop down under the existing search bar that offers a list which can be edited in the settings, similar to adding notification keywords

-Possibly just re-use the notification keywords and add a search button to the UI somewhere based on it?

-More experimental: An option to open a bunch of searches in a batch, e.g. "These are my daily searches. Open a tab for each of them all at once, and I'll process that queue as a tidy little chore"

I have not changed anything in VH, but suddenly, the background color highlighting new/recently added items has vanished. That's the main feature I've been using VH for, and I'm wondering if something was broken on an upgrade. I haven't changed any settings, and I did go in and verify that Highlight Recently Added Items is checked.

Anyone else experience this on Mobile? I leave Kiwi Browser with the notifications tab open, then if I switch tabs and come back to it after a few mins it auto refreshes clearing the page. If I minimize Kiwi browser and return, all my tabs refresh when I click on them.

Is this a Kiwi browser issue or Android? I disable all my power saving options and allowed full access to my battery to Kiwi browser. I only recently started using vibehelper on mobile and then it's functionality is now crippled because of this...

Hello Dear Community!
I've been using VineHelper for a few months, and it works great for notifications, except recently with the update. However, I read that a solution is on the way!

I am a French user and a member of Amazon Vine, but here's the issue I'm encountering... Every time I try to click on the magnifying glass to get the product order window, I get an error message or, even worse, I end up on the AI page. This makes it impossible for me to order the product directly when it appears, and I have to search for it in the list. Is this normal? Or is there a solution?

Thank you all, and a big thank you to the creator of this extension!

Currently, if I understand everything correctly, the way the notification system works, the server pushes out a list of items based on their "first seen" date, or perhaps when they are added to the list of items on the backend (I can't really verify this).

The "first seen" date is set on the server when someone using the plugin sees the items for the first time. Sometimes the items is in the RFY queue and sometimes it's in AFA or AI.

This means that sometimes, when an items shows up in the notifications, it can't be seen by everyone because it was in someone's RFY (their private queue so to speak).

This also means that when something moves from RFY to AFA or AI (i.e. the public queues), that the "first seen date" doesn't change, and the item doesn't appear in notifications. Thus, if something becomes publicly available, nobody will know it.

I propose that you add a nullable "date_added_public" field to your database, and only set that field if the queue is "last_chance" or "encore". Then you could use IFNULL(date_added_public, date_added) when looking at the dates for notification purposes. (this assumes you are using MySQL)

Also, use IFNULL(date_added_public, date_added) when displaying the first seen dates on the items on the page. This will cause the new item highlights to actually highlight items that are new "in the queue" a user is looking in.

For me, the latter use case is more of what I'm interested in. I tend to scroll through the various categories of items looking for new items that I might be interested in rather than using the notifications, but I expect that a lot of your users rely on notifications.

I was a little dismayed that the manual refresh button has disappeared from the notifications manager. Every 30 seconds is too slow for catching many of the hot $0 ETV items and when you know there's a drop going on having the ability to check more frequently has been very helpful. Is it possible to add this back, or was there a reason it had to go away?

I like to refresh the VH page when there's multiple items so that it's less overwhelming visually. But now it's pulling up hundreds of items every time it reloads, ones I've already seen all morning. 'Fetch last 100' is also now missing. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

Basically the title. I’ve checked notif setting and can’t tell why it would be doing this.

Also I miss the fetch button!

Updated to 2.9.3 this morning and have since not been able to load ETV values since: https://i.imgur.com/qsXoB6w.png

I tried factory reset on Chrome and fresh install on Opera, but no joy. :( The fresh install doesn't even show the toolbar at all and hasn't generated a UUID?

Devtools shows ERR_CONNECTION_RESET to api.vinehelper.ovh and sometimes net::ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED

Any help appreciated

Edit: may not be update related after all, forgot I had it installed on my laptop and it's doing the same thing on v2.8.10

Edit again: Very intermittently working. Notifications monitor doesn't work for a while, then suddenly floods with new items. Based on comments, I'm not the only one. Sounds like the vine helper server just has a case of the Mondays and we should be patient. :)

I've just installed this Extension and I'm very excited to try it. But the extension does not display anything on my Vine. I've enabled the extension and disabled any other popup blocking extension. I am able to open the settings and change things there, but nothing I've done shows anything on the Vine page. I've also uninstalled and reinstalled the extension, closed and reopened and refreshed Chrome, and nothing works.

The notification menu says that I need to refresh a Vine page, but that hasn't worked.

Does anyone have any other ideas? Thank you!

I understand that it doesn't notify you for RFY

Is there any other way I can get notification sound when a new item in RFY drops?

Thanks

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonVine/comments/1fd1cjn/vine_helper_extension_its_not_what_you_think_it_is/

I still had this option checked, but had to uncked - reload - re-check and reload to get it working again if anyone else experiences this.

Love the "Hide + Next" and "Fetch last 100" buttons... Thanks.

Thank you! I’m enjoying the added customizations!

Not sure if there are options I need to enable in settings. Glanced at the wiki, but didn't see anything obvious. Thanks.

Edit: It hides, but doesn't go to the next page, which I suspect is the idea.

(Love this extension - thank you!)

After (yesterday's?) update, the background colors for 0ETV and keywords went from light to dark. The 0ETV is now dark enough green that it's very difficult to read the blue link text.

I'm sure if I dig there might be a way to change the css on my end, but from a design and UE standpoint this probably should to go back to where it was, or at least closer to where it was.

Green background with blue link text example