As a weirdo, I like to read LessWrong sometimes. There are a few extremely tiny features that I wish the site had that it doesn't. Luckily enough, I know how webpages work, and certain kinds of tweaks are especially easy. I'm attaching two of these here now, and may return to add more later.

Current contents:

LessWrong Vote Hider — Hides all the vote totals on a posts page. Unhides when you hover them.
LessWrong Vote Floater — Makes it easier to vote while you're reading by taking the vote icon from the bottom and making it float on the bottom-right of the page.

How Do I Use These?

You're going to need the ability to inject CSS onto webpages [1] . I use Stylus for Firefox, but any mainstream browser is going to have some add-on for this. There appears to be a version of Stylus for Chrome for example.

Userstyles come in a few forms, but mine are going to be dumb CSS, which removes a lot of the need to explain anything.

First, create a userstyle to paste the code into:

In Stylus, you can [...]

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Outline:

(00:49) How Do I Use These?

(02:04) Snippets

(02:07) LessWrong Vote Hider

(02:14) LessWrong Vote Floater

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:
January 11th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mQpMqZxJcF2DspyRD/a-couple-useful-lesswrong-userstyles

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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Images from the article:

User CSS style editor interface for lesswrong.com with manage and find options.

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“A Couple Useful LessWrong Userstyles” by Alex Vermillion

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