kbin.social

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!

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.

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.

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

In your profile, there's a 'subscribed' list. It's not super convenient, but easier than searching.

Eggyhead, rok temu (edited rok temu)

I've attached a screenshot of what I see when I go to my profile. Maybe I'm just blind, but I can't find a "subscribed" list for magazines. There's the one for threads, but posts from more obscure communities are difficult to navigate to.

Edit: I found it. I need to click on the rightward-arrow next to "Followers" under my banner in order to reveal "Subscribed".
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

Somewhereunknown7351, rok temu

It is there

You just have to scroll on the bar with the arrows

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.

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 ( ˙˘˙ )

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!)

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

I hope you get well soon!

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

Get well soon :)

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.

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?

GeekFTW, rok temu do kbinMeta w can a magazine be permanently deleted? i don't want to attempt to mod when post deletion/moderation is not federated

Magazines can be deleted. There is a Delete Magazine button in the Magazine Panel of any magazine you own (on the General tab, first one).

However at this time it does not appear to be an automatic thing (I believe Ernest has to clear then manually). I've deleted around a dozen so far (which were taken care of within 24h) and have had over a dozen more as well waiting for deletion (which have been sitting there for a month+ as Ernest has been busy as of late, and then the holidays and such).

hallucination, rok temu

Thanks for the answer!

Pandantic, rok temu do kbinMeta w if i delete a post from my mag that is from a user from lemmy, will it be removed on both ends (both kbin and lemmy)?

This is only from what I have seen and I have no knowledge of how federation works:

No. Ex: there have been many spam posts on food@kbin.social that I made a post about. I found out from that post that they were removed from the kbin mod, but I could still see them here on Midwest.social.

See this post for more info. There is also a link in there about this known issue.

hallucination, rok temu

well shit, i regret making it now if i can't even moderate it