cohost-denumberifier.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name        cohost De-Numberifier
// @description Removes comment numbers
// @version     0.2
// @author       @sciman101
// @match       *://cohost.org/*
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

// A lot of this code was stolen from gyoza's fantastic audio enhancements userscript

const yesCommentsString = 'yes comments';
const noCommentsString = 'no comments';

const observer = new MutationObserver(mutations => {
  mutations
    .flatMap(mutation => Array.from(mutation.addedNodes))
    .flatMap(addedNode => Array.from(addedNode.querySelectorAll('footer')))
    .forEach(processFooter);
});

function startObserving() {
  let mainContent = document.querySelector('main');
  if (!mainContent) {
    mainContent = document.querySelector('[data-view="post-preview"]')?.parentElement?.parentElement
    if (!mainContent) return;
  }

  observer.disconnect();
  observer.observe(mainContent, {subtree: true, childList: true});
}

function processFooter(footer) {
    const commentLabel = footer.querySelector('.text-sm');
    if (/(\d+) comments?/.test(commentLabel.innerText)) {
        if (commentLabel.innerText === '0 comments') {
            commentLabel.innerText = noCommentsString;
        }else{
            commentLabel.innerText = yesCommentsString;
        }
    }
}

function main() {
  const initialPosts = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('footer.bg-notWhite'))
  initialPosts.forEach(processFooter)
  startObserving()
}

if (document.readyState === 'complete') {
  setTimeout(main, 500)
} else {
  document.addEventListener('readystatechange', e => {
    if (document.readyState === 'complete') setTimeout(main, 500)
  })
}