XKCD substitutions

Fun

Version: 1.4.1

Last Update: 2016-03-13

Overview

XKCD substitutions is a Chrome extension developed by alec.posney. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of XKCD substitutions is 1.4.1, updated on 2016-03-13.
8,000+ users have installed this extension. 304 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

Making the web a stranger better place.

Is the news getting you down? Well about to be cheered up with substitutions that make reading the news more fun.

see http://xkcd.com/1288, https://xkcd.com/1625/

Now with custom substitutions! Simply right click the extension icon and click options to add your own.

some other xkcd jokes have made it into the newest version.
https://xkcd.com/1004/
https://xkcd.com/1418/
https://xkcd.com/1031/
https://xkcd.com/1625/

all credit to xkcd

also checkout s/keyboard/leopard, which inspired this extension.
http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/skeyboardleopard/oheflacdocadefgdpiimpapbkomhgbbe

source: https://github.com/Posnet/xkcd-substitutions

Rating

304 ratings

Total Installs

8,000+

Information

Last Update

2016-03-13

Current Version

1.4.1

Size

432KiB

Author

alec.posney

Website

None

Category

Fun

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Latest Reviews


Miraculous Man 2021-08-05 Love it. Little thing though: for "expand" -- "physically expand", the extension gives me 10–20 physicallys, probably because the substitution contains its own trigger word. And as others said, uppercase and lowercase distinction would be nice but that's just cosmetic. Edit: they are getting more and more. I am at over 50 physicallys now.
Ye Wang 2021-04-08 I tried replacing "."="!?" but instead it just replaces every space with "!?". Other than that it worked fine and I had a lot of fun.
Peter Nielsen 2021-02-24 Very nice... worth the install. Laughing for days. Don't forget to turn it off if you're doing something serious, though... it can get confusing. Still. Very good.
Matthew Lopez 2021-02-12 It makes the Internet a stranger and better place. There are a couple problems, though, but they are all possible to fix. The first problem is that switching 2 words doesn't work. For example, when you set it to change minute to year and year to minute, it just changes both minute and year to minute. This can be fixed by adding a 0-length whitespace character to the text, like this one: (‎). This can also fix the recursive "physically physically expands" issue, as others have noted. The second problem is that it does not work with 0 web sites in the blocklist, but that can be fixed by adding gibberish to the blocklist. The third problem is that it does not have the substitutions 3 comic by default, but they are easy to add.
Rassul Li 2020-10-14 Reading the news have became my favorite part of my day