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ForestOrca, 10 miesięcy temu w /kbin Issues

The issue I had with Up/Down Vote, and Boost throwing errors appears to be resolved. Huzzah!!!

JohnWorks, 10 miesięcy temu w Another Interstellar update: new icon, microblogging support, editing/deleting capabilities, youtube embedding, and more

Has the kbin API been released? I didn’t know there was 3rd party apps for kbin yet.

jwr1, 10 miesięcy temu

The kbin api has been out for a while, but there are some instances that still don't support it yet, including kbin.social. If you go to the login screen on the app, there's a list of recommended kbin instances that support both the API and external logins.

JohnWorks, 10 miesięcy temu

Ah gotcha guess I was thinking of kbin social then

8BitFriendly, 10 miesięcy temu

@ernest When can we expect kbin.social to support the API and external logins?

I really want to support Kbin and stay on your instance, but not having a mobile app is a serious deal-breaker. Supporting apps should get priority over introducing new kbin features IMHO. Kbin.social is the biggest instance, so I'd expect it to support all needed APIs?

I hoped Artemis would deliver, but it didn't. Now Interstellar is my next resort. Today I even considered ... <whisper> returning to Reddit </whisper> for a brief moment.

Prouvaire, 10 miesięcy temu w Improved Channel Select Menu 0.2.0 — Makes your subscribed magazines and liked channels more accessible

Thanks very much for this. I've been hoping that raltsm4k updates Floating Subs List to incorporate collections, but they haven't been active since mid-last year.

Given your code is partly based on this script, I wonder if you might consider modifyingraltsm4k's Floating Subs List script so that collections appear as part of the sidebar. As a fallback, maybe modify your script so that collections appear before magazines rather than after. This would make it easier to use both scripts, one to access magazines in the sidebar, and the other to more easily access liked collections.

ThatOneKirbyMain2568, 10 miesięcy temu

I'd definitely be up for that! I also got a lot of use out of raltsm4k's sub list, so I can see how some might prefer to have it in that format.

As for sorting collections and magazines in my script, I plan on making a setting so that you can toggle which comes first.

olorin99, 10 miesięcy temu w Improved Channel Select Menu 0.2.0 — Makes your subscribed magazines and liked channels more accessible

Found a bug. On mobile the menu is partly offscreen. image. Looks like the menu is aligned with the button rather than with the edge of the screen.

ThatOneKirbyMain2568, 10 miesięcy temu

Just released a new update. Is it fixed?

olorin99, 10 miesięcy temu

Yep, all good now.

Pamasich, 10 miesięcy temu w Improved Channel Select Menu 0.2.0 — Makes your subscribed magazines and liked channels more accessible

Thanks, this is the best implementation idea for this I've seen yet imo, will definitely be using this from now on.

I haven't found any bugs yet, but I'd like to request two future improvements:

• Changing the order of magazines and collections

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I have like three collections and a ton of magazines, so having to scroll through all the magazines to reach the collections is a bit of a pain. It's still much easier than before this script, but it would be even better if I could move the collections above the magazines.
On the other hand, someone else might have the opposite situation and would prefer it the way it currently is, so unlike the other user I'm not asking you to just swap the order.
I think the ideal solution would be adding a setting somewhere to determine which comes first. So every user can tailor the functionality to their needs.
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• Support for turbo mode

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Ernest added turbo as an optional mode in the past months (you can find it in the sidebar options). It turns the site into a single page experience, which means kbin.social links don't open the website anew entirely but rather replace the page content, including the changes your script makes. This cuts down on loading time, but it also causes scripts to break.

It would be great if the script were to support turbo mode eventually, especially if Ernest makes it the standard in the future (it is marked as experimental currently, so that's probably the eventual intention).

To do so, you'd have to attach a MutationListener to the body element like I did here. But that will run many times more than just on navigation, so you'd also have to ensure your code does support being run multiple times without breaking.
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ThatOneKirbyMain2568, 10 miesięcy temu

These are great ideas, and I'll look into implementing them soon. Thanks for the pointers on turbo mode support!

ThatOneKirbyMain2568, 10 miesięcy temu 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, 10 miesięcy 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, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy 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, 10 miesięcy 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, 10 miesięcy 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, 10 miesięcy temu

New KES mod?

Montagge, 10 miesięcy temu w Another Interstellar update: new icon, microblogging support, editing/deleting capabilities, youtube embedding, and more

On Android I had to uninstall the old version to install this version. Just an FYI for anyone that runs into the same thing.

jwr1, 10 miesięcy temu

I just wanted to let you know, since you mentioned it, I figured out what was wrong, and the latest version should fix the updating problem. You'll still have to reinstall one last time though, unfortunately.

Montagge, 10 miesięcy temu

Fantastic!

DarkThoughts, 10 miesięcy temu w Another Interstellar update: new icon, microblogging support, editing/deleting capabilities, youtube embedding, and more

Does it support mbin instances too?

DarkGamer, 10 miesięcy temu 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.

PugJesus, 10 miesięcy temu 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, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy 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, 10 miesięcy temu

It is there

You just have to scroll on the bar with the arrows

BaldProphet, 10 miesięcy temu 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.

HeartyBeast, 10 miesięcy temu 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.

ThatOneKirbyMain2568, 10 miesięcy temu 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.

mules, 10 miesięcy temu 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!

Pamasich, 10 miesięcy temu 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.