OC Kbin Familiarity - a theme i made to replicate old reddit on kbin!

basic_spud, 11 months ago

This desperately needs to be a built-in option. Old reddit's design was far better than new reddit, why did these (lemmy, kbin) decide to emulate new reddit's trash UI?

Madison_rogue, 11 months ago

First...Kbin's UI is IIRC currently in its alpha state. This isn't the finished product. Secondly, the UI is setup in the manner old internet forums used to be organized, with some additional tweeks to prioritize boosted and upvoted topics. Finally, this UI may not emulate Reddit in its final upgrade because it's a different kind of social platform.

I'd just ask people to be patient. There has been a huge influx of users to kbin, and lemmy over the course of the past month and the people behind the scenes have been working tirelessly just to keep up with user/server demand.

basic_spud, 10 months ago

I certainly can understand that. My issue isnt with the overall functionality though, but the absurd waste of empty space. "Old reddit" was far more useful and information dense. I would suggest kbin's default or at least an option be done similarly where way more articles can be seen in a single "screen" without scrolling.

bron, 11 months ago

This is cool for transitioning and all, but here's the thing: if we want to move away from Reddit, we shouldn't be trying to replicate it IMO

Tanza, 11 months ago

if it feels more natural for people to use i don't see the issue

hariette, 11 months ago

I didn't know how much I needed this 😭

jerome, 11 months ago

Oh god lord you saved me. Thanks tanza.

sauerbraten42, 11 months ago

Looks very nice, will test this tomorrow. I am sure they will offer more design options on kbin natively in the future, but it will take some time.

Rukongai, 11 months ago

Oh my god. Thank you.

RheingoldRiver, 11 months ago

Hi! I installed it, and a couple pieces of feedback:

1. when there's an avatar, this gets kinda overlapped
2. sidebar is way too large when browser is fullscreen on a big monitor, that should get a width constraint

I love this though!

Tanza, 11 months ago

hm, do you have any other themes or changes enabled? i can't seem to replicate the first one. on the second one, how large is your monitor?

RheingoldRiver, 11 months ago

1, I realized I do, but its a js snippet to remove magazines' custom styles. I disabled and tried again and same thing. For reference though, here's where it's happening
2. atm my firefox window is slightly wider than 1080 pixels.

Sylveon-Z, 11 months ago

Are you planning on porting this to Stylish as well? I got confused at first since I had Stylish already installed.

Tanza, 11 months ago

stylish apparently had some sort of spyware from memory after being bought out to another company, so i'm not going to port it to that, sorry - stylus is just as good and does the same thing

metaStatic, 11 months ago

love it