I have /m/learnesperanto and I am slowly working on sprucing up the CSS. So far all I’ve really done is add a green bottom border to some link hovers in the sidebar.
I'm a mod. My subreddit (kbin.social/m/bestof) will not get a facelift any time soon, I don't think. Aren't people expecting to customize their own view of all communities?
Also, do the visuals persist to all of the fediverse? How does your community look on kbin, lemmy, etc?
As a magazine having a custom CSS isn't important for whether I decide to interact with a community, I'm much more focused on other methods of gathering an audience and activity which isn't just me posting over and over.
I've done some decorating over at https://kbin.social/m/ArcBrowser. Not done yet, but for Arc Browser users, the colors will adjust to match your browser theme!
Edit: Added a comment and updated the option bar to match the navbar.
Sure, here you go! I've never done anything like this before so it's probably a formatting disaster, but I've done my best to clean it a bit and add some comments about what does what here. This is what I've come up with after a few hours of just poking around with the inspect element feature and reading some tutorials:
/* The little arrow button in the bottom right that takes you back to the top of the page */ #scroll-top {
background: linear-gradient(to top right, rgba(229, 0, 32, .8) , rgba(242, 151, 57, .8));
box-shadow: 0px 4px 10px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
}
I played around with it but honestly it's a bit of a nightmare to support given all the different Kbin user themes and the differences between desktop and mobile. Kbin is also not stable in the sense that new changes are expected and new themes are still being added. I figured I'd wait until it stabilized and/or until someone came up with a decent design you can easily plug and play.
...instead why don't you make an easy to follow tutorial and post an article, "THIS is how you can decorate your magazine using CSS..."
If your goal is to have a more beautiful user experience for all who browse the second would seem more effective at achieving that goal.
If your goal is to humble brag and position your magazine (and coding skills) as superior to those of other mag mods, the first phrasing is the superior way to go about that.
I very much doubt your intent was to talk down to anyone, however, so I would very much advocate your writing up a CSS guide in pursuit of what I presume to be your goals (a vibrant and beautiful library of magazines here on kbin).
Your magazine is very pretty and I commend you for your decorative and coding skills.
I don't know CSS. I took the automatically generated background CSS (under appearance) & fed it into ChatGTP & told it how I wanted it to look. After a little trial & error to get that right, I tweaked the color codes till I liked them. That's pretty much it.
I definitely wasn't trying to talk down to anyone.
Still, could do a small informative post about how to go about modifying CSS of a magazine. This place is still relatively small and I bet many people don't even know there can be custom CSS (like myself lol).
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