I think @ernest was just being cheeky. Kbin hasn't changed much UI wise since the reddit explosion started. It's been mostly under the hood, trying to keep the ship upright in the rocky storm of users.
I really wanted something similar so I threw a quick and dirty tampermonkey script together to fetch the subscriptions from the settings page. I think it worked out pretty alright.
Thanks for sharing, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Even with my other scripts turned off. Looking at your screenshot, is that Safari on IOS? Maybe an OS specific issue as I'm on Windows using Firefox. Not pressuring you to fix it, just letting you know it might not work on other platforms.
No worries, it's my first published Tampermonkey script so there are probably a lot of quirks that should be ironed out.
I'm using Chrome on MacOS. Which extension are you using? I've only tested this in Tampermonkey and I did read somewhere that Greasemonkey may have dropped support for the GM_addStyle() function which I'm using.
If possible, it would really help if you could post any errors that you might be getting in the web inspector console.
I want the ability to customize the top bar with the magazines I want to be able to quickly access. It's a feature that is in RES you can shortcut any subreddit to be on the top bar.
Yeah this is what I'm missing the most about Kbin is just being able to quickly browse to my favorite communities and magazines with a click.
This mockup is a great utilization of the horizontal deadspace on the sides.
Honestly, I feel like Kbin is missing RES type of extension. Meanwhile, I found some good scripts on GreasyFork for Tampermonkey that scratch some missing features while browsing kbin.
I think that that's the vast bulk of the reason, but I could believe that there are things that maybe someone wants implemented that Ernest disagrees with and so they provide it as a client-side hack.
But, yeah, probably would be preferable to just patch it in the Web UI. Or in some of the upcoming clients.
Hey I installed this and it's working fine, so thank you! But the communities outside of kbin that I'm subscribed to are not showing up at all, even though they're listed under my subscriptions in my profile. Is there a setting I missed somewhere?
This is very nice, thanks for this! I know it's early stages yet, but I have about 6 different monkey scripts installed right now and they all add so much to the experience until they can be merged with core.
This is amazing! It basically recreates my reddit browsing experience and makes the whole site so much easier to navigate!
I can see references in the code to "sort alphabetically" (which would be very welcome!)... but I can't see the button. Did that function not make it into this version of the script?
I wonder if it would be possible in future to sort mags by the number of comments you've made in that sub. Obviously the ones you're commenting a lot are the best to be at the top.
Huh, are you running version 0.2 of the script? I pushed the sorting update not too long ago and I don't currently have it configured to auto-update. If you are up to date, would you mind telling me your browser and which monkey extension you're using?
I think the problem is that the subscription page (that the script gets its items from) is paginated, and the script will only get the items on the first page.
This would be a great feature. It would be even better when we can aggregate different magazines into one category. For example combining all tech magazines from different instances into one technology page. Either manually or curated.
Ah, so I'm NOT stupid and there isn't actually a convenient way to list your subscribed magazines on your front page. That seems like such a simple feature though.
Edit: speaking of this, is there a way to easily see the context of a reply, like how on reddit you can just keep clicking on "context" or "parent comment" and keep going up in the nest? Right now I'm having to go back to the original thread and find my comment to see the comments around it. It'd be nice if they could stick that in the "more" menu.
Unless I'm being stupid again and totally missing it.
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