/kbin - preview of upcoming changes

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

A couple things I would like to see on kbin:

1. Setting to switch the default homepage from "hot" to anything else, or add an option to only see posts from magazines I follow
2. Setting to move the "make a comment" box to a place that's above the comments

Otherwise, this is pretty much perfect so far.

Drusas, 10 months ago

Thank you for your work!

I'm especially looking forward to the bug which causes notifications not to be sent when you receive replies to your comments being fixed. This one is a huge drag on conversation.

As for features, very much looking forward to being able to collapse comments.

VulcanSphere, 10 months ago

Great updates as always, keep up the good work!

Charlielx, 10 months ago

Love it! I'm desperately just waiting for the ability to hide posts, that's causing the most disconnect from what I'm used to over on reddit. Would also love the option to save posts, but I'm sure all that is an eventuality

DerpyPoint, 10 months ago

Keep up the good work! Hoping broken photos can be deleted soon

AngrilyEatingMuffins, 10 months ago

Stay safe and don’t burn out.

Make the donation page more prominent!

melroy, 10 months ago

I added it to the Readme

ryan, 10 months ago

Thank you for all your continued hard work, Ernest! I can't imagine the amount of work you have put in as a server admin, as a developer, as front line support, etc.

For those people reading, if you have the means you can buy Ernest a coffee to thank and support him and his efforts.

melroy, 10 months ago

Don't forget the contributors https://www.buymeacoffee.com/melroy 😊

ryan, 10 months ago

Absolutely! Funny story... Even when working on something which is related to but not directly kbin, I end up running into something you posted which fixes my issue. 😅

melroy, 10 months ago

I'm indeed all around: https://github.com/melroy89 haha

Dentora, 10 months ago

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work!

DrChickenbeer, 10 months ago

@ernest just want to thank you for all of the hard work you've done and are doing. Kbin is something really special and you've been going above and beyond with it.

ngmi, 10 months ago

Please don't make me scroll the whole thread with comments just to reach the comment input. Super discouraging

0rito, 10 months ago

I'm sure it's something that'll be moved at some point, but for now - it's in KES.

ngmi, 10 months ago

Awesome, thanks. But that's only for desktop, I assume

0rito, 10 months ago

Depends on your mobile browser. There are numerous third-party chromium-based browsers that support mobile extensions, such as Opera. There's also Firefox that supports mobile extensions. In either of those situations, you'd simply install TamperMonkey. I do agree that Chome/Edge should bring extension support sooner rather than later.

demvoter, 10 months ago

+1 this needs to be fixed

AnonymousLlama, 10 months ago

Yep, this one has been brought up a few times and it looks like it's under discussion (the idea of it being at the end is to encourage everyone to read first etc)

While that's a good philosophy overall, a thread like this is a perfect example of why we should have one at the top also, you just want to post a quick comment saying thanks for the work and move on, having to scroll heaps far especially on mobile is rough

FakeJake, 10 months ago

Jumping on this to mention two things:
Firstly, thanks to all that are helping develop this. Once I got our instance up and running i was impressed with the whole thing. Potentially related: I have more gray hairs now. Let's just say I'm glad to see that work is being done to simplify the docker setup and improve the admin documentation.

Secondly, one behaviour I've noticed is when searching for a new magazine/community, one of the instance admins is listed as owner and moderator and is automatically subscribed to this new (to our instance) magazine/community, and the created date is listed as when we first searched for it.
Is this a bug (known or otherwise) or expected behaviour? Just seems a bit odd...

lohrun, 10 months ago

This thread gave me a thought that we need a good place to discuss new features and bugs of existing features. I know we have kbinMeta but that is more like discussion of the overall site and the “meta” of things.

Anyways, @kbinfeaturerequests is the place I made for us to discuss feature ideas, pull requests in the pipelines, and pretty much anything in that realm.

Mintyytea, 10 months ago

Maybe that magazine should be linked on this one’s description so people can know about it and its purpose

swope, 10 months ago

The link gives me a 404...?

swope, 10 months ago

https://kbin.social/m/kbinfeaturerequests

ernest, 10 months ago

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/317 ;)

swope, 10 months ago

I don't quite understand the content of that thread (I'm not a developer), but I think the point that the fix is coming soon.

ernest, 10 months ago

Yes, exactly like that ;)

darkevilmac, 10 months ago

Somewhat off topic but does kbin currently have a working API? Every instance I've attempted an API call on just errors out. Same thing when running a local test instance.

Would also likely be a good idea to distribute an OpenAPI spec so people can automatically generate API clients in the future.

Thanks for making such a great platform by the way. Genuinely impressed what a solo dev is able to build with activitypub.

rideranton, 10 months ago

Not yet, see https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/357

Dantastic, 10 months ago

How is an app being developed for kbin without an api?

rideranton, 10 months ago

It basically uses the same methods of submitting content as the website does, reading the entirety of the webpage in the process. It's much less efficient than using an API, but it's possible

melroy, 10 months ago

Scraping

dm_me_your_secrets, 10 months ago

Cheers!

AnonymousLlama, 10 months ago

Cheers for the ongoing support mate. I've been pretty keen on contributing and getting some of the UI/UX polished up, keen to see these all hit prod so everyone can benefit ❤️

Love to make the experience on mobile good enough that if you want you won't even need a third party app.