kbin.social

Prouvaire, rok temu do kbinMeta w [Solved] How to get rid of the arrows at the bottom of comments which collapse/expand the text?

It may have something to do with the bug mentioned here:

The improved collapsible comments add-on, part of the original KES collection in version 1.0.0, has some conflicts with kbin's own implementation of collapsible comments. I am cleaning this up, but it may take some time

speck, rok temu

Ah, nice thank you. I'll look for that and disable it, see if it helps

Pamasich, rok temu do kbinMeta w What's the quickest way to find a magazine/community you've subscribed to?

It's definitely not ideal at all currently. You've already found out how to do it currently, but I'd like to point you towards some alternatives that currently exist to make this easier until ernest adds something official.

Here's the userscripts I know of, each approaches the task a bit differently:

• KES (Kbin Enhancement Suite) has a feature that brings up your subscriptions with a hotkey.
• Improved Channel Select Menu adds your subscriptions and collections to the select channel menu. It's the one with the 3 dots and lines next to your username. This one is the only one that currently supports collections I think.
• Floating Subs List adds a new (collapsible) sidebar to the left which contains your subscribed magazines.

Choose whichever sounds like more your thing, or try each and go with which works best for you.

If you're not familiar with userscripts: just get yourself either Greasemonkey, Tampermonkey, or Violentmonkey from your browser's extension/addon store, then head to the script's greasyfork page (I linked you to them above) and click the big green button. For KES it's a bit special but just as simple, just use this link, it should bring up an installation page. After installing KES, you're looking for a wrench next to the user button to access its options and turn the feature on.

mules, rok temu do kbinMeta w To those genuinely interested in moderating

@Ernest is the process for approving an ownership request done manually by you? I requested ownership of a magazine a few weeks ago and it hasn't gone through. I know you've been busy with running/improving the site so it might be worth making the process either automatic or give permission to someone you trust to approve/deny. Hope you are having a good one!

BaldProphet, rok temu do kbinMeta w What's the quickest way to find a magazine/community you've subscribed to?

I would like to see a more accessible list of subscribed magazines included in a future UI update.

ThatOneKirbyMain2568, rok temu do kbinMeta w What's the quickest way to find a magazine/community you've subscribed to?

You can go to "Settings" or "Profile" and you'll find a subscriptions tab.
Alternatively, you can install a userscript that adds a faster way of accessing them. Here's one I recently made and one made by raltsm4k.

HeartyBeast, rok temu do kbinMeta w What's the quickest way to find a magazine/community you've subscribed to?

If you go to ‘Settings’ you will see a ‘Subscriptions’ tab - all your magazines are listed in there - sadly I haven’t worked out how they are ordered.

DarkGamer, rok temu do kbinMeta w What do you think about upvoting/boosting your own post?

I'm all for it and I think it's funny when people give me crap for it.

Emu, rok temu do kbinMeta w A starting guide to kbin.social + support thread for new users

The kbin owner needs to make things simple and intuitive. It shouldn't require reading pages of introductions and explanations to access a platform like this. That is one thing Reddit did well, is making things super easy and straight foward. All this fediverse stuff shouldn't require people to learn- it's just a forum.

kuontom, rok temu

While I understand the fediverse may pose a learning curve, please note it does not refer to a forum, which is why there are introduction pages. As for Reddit being straight forward, it's been developing for about 18 years now. Kbin in comparison is about two months into development.

BaldProphet, rok temu do kbinDevlog w RTR#50 Plans for the upcoming week

I gotta say, I don't know what I would do if one of my projects took off the way kbin has. It's good to see you holding on after eight months of this crazy ride.

Prouvaire, rok temu do kbinDevlog w RTR#50 Plans for the upcoming week

Just a reminder you can support Ernest and kbin's ongoing development and maintenance via:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

https://www.patreon.com/kbin_pub

https://liberapay.com/kbin

tjhart85, rok temu

Thanks for the reminder, I threw in a dozen coffees.

Thank you for all that you're doing, @Ernest ! This platform is fantastic and I really hope that you're able to get enough support to keep it alive long term without it needing to turn to outside funds to stay alive!

ETA: Get well soon! Don't overwork yourself, you've got us stable at the moment, please, don't cause yourself so much stress you delay your recovery (as they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!)

ThatOneKirbyMain2568, rok temu do kbinMeta w Two requests for microblog incorporation into the main feed.

The first request would definitely be a nice setting to have.

As for the second one, I think microblog posts are pretty easy to distinguish from threads already, as everything's organized completely differently. There's no title, the avatar is in a different spot with a different shape, the upvote button is in a different spot, there's no downvote button, etc. I think changing the color would just be visually jarring more than anything.

Eggyhead, rok temu

That makes sense. I’m actually not used to microblogs, and I never actually got into Twitter, so the distinguishing characteristics don’t really stand out to me as much. I think the color variation would help me better process what I’m looking at.

Pamasich, rok temu (edited rok temu)

I think the color variation would help me better process what I’m looking at.

You can change the color yourself btw. The traditional method is to install the Stylus extension/addon, but I think kbin now lets you define your own styling in your profile settings, though I haven't tried it. (tried it now and this doesn't really seem possible there, has the same selector deletion issues as magazine css)

In the HTML code, microblog posts and threads are represented differently. Posts are blockquote, while threads are article. This makes it easy to restyle them via userstyles.

So you should be able to just

div#content {
    > article {
        /* thread styling */
    }
    > blockquote {
        /* microblog post styling */
       background-color: red;
    }
}

You can also define the color in rgb rgb(255,0,0) or hsl (hsl(0,100%,50%)).

Eggyhead, rok temu

I am very pleased that this is possible, but I don’t even know what words to use to even ask how to do something like that.

Pamasich, rok temu

The images I'm using here probably won't work as embeds, but opening them as links should work.

Depending on if you use Firefox or a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, and almost all the others), get yourself the Stylus extension (chromium) or addon (firefox).

Once installed in your browser, open the extension by clicking on the icon next to your address bar. If it's not there, there's a puzzle piece button to open a list of all your extensions where you can click on it. I'm writing this from an Edge perspective, so for other browsers, especially Firefox, this might not be entirely accurate.

This opens up a menu where your current styles are listed and can be turned on/off (well, the list is empty for now of course), and there's buttons to "Manage" and "Find styles".
Above those buttons, there's a link to the current page. Click on the kbin.social part of that link.

This should open up the editor in a new window.
Just copy and paste the following code into that window.

div#content {
    > article {
        /* thread styling */
    }
    > blockquote, > blockquote + .comments > blockquote {
        /* microblog post styling */
        background-color: red;
    }
}

Give the style a name to the left and hit the yellow "Save" button. The site will update in real time, you shouldn't even need to reload it for the changes to take effect after saving. In fact, after saving it once, you don't even have to keep saving it after every change in my experience.

I've changed the above code a bit to also cover the replies to posts, that's what the .comments stuff is about.

This will give you a very red background. I just chose this for the example to make the change obvious to see at a glance. You can replace the red with another color name, or an RGB or HSL value for a more granular choice.

I recommend using HSL if you want to tweak the color later without having to open up a color picker. You just choose a base color, how saturated it should be, and how light you want it. And optionally the transparency.
The HSL equivalent for red is hsl(0,100%,50%).

If you just want microblog posts to be a bit lighter or darker (depending on your theme) than threads, you can use hsla(0,0%,100%,0.15) (this makes them lighter, change the 100% to 0% for darker). Tweak the transparency (the last value) to change the intensity of the color change.

Besides the background color, you can also change other CSS properties. Just add additional lines in the pattern property: value;.
For example, you can set a border using border: 1px red solid;, which creates a red solid border of 1 pixel width.
I like to use this site as a reference myself for what properties exist and how they're used.

shazbot, rok temu

New KES mod?

Pamasich, rok temu do kbinDevlog w RTR#50 Plans for the upcoming week

Hey @ernest

I just noticed that, while kbin supports Lemmy-style spoilers, it seems like actual spoilers federated from Lemmy don't appear as spoilers on kbin yet. Are you aware of that?

For reference, here's a thread where I tested this with my lemm.ee test account.

The federated spoiler just displays in plain text still.

Somewhereunknown7351, rok temu do kbinDevlog w RTR#50 Plans for the upcoming week

Get well soon ( ˙˘˙ )

kubica, rok temu do kbinMeta w Issues with the functioning of kbin.social

I've read that there are problems with lemmy's federation itself ( https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/735134/It-s-been-six-days-since-a-potential-fix-for-the )
Do you think kbin suffering from side effects or maybe are there other problems?

tiredofsametab, rok temu

Yeah, I'm curious about this as well

IggyTheSmidge, rok temu

Seems like it:

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/731647/Last-few-days-are-the-least-functional-kbin-has-been#entry-comment-4342777

DarkThoughts, rok temu

That's the one I saw as well. Would be nice to have that confirmed or denied.

Infiltrated_ad8271, rok temu do kbinMeta w Issues with the functioning of kbin.social

Can you predict when the situation will improve? Should we take a week off?

PS: I think I've seen too many devs in crisis for rolling out "minor" patches late on Fridays or before holidays; there should be an unwritten rule about it.

TheGreenGolem, rok temu

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