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vintprox

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🎞 Video Editor
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Custom CSS updates | dR Bulletin Board

Whenever you visit , you will see slight changes in the header. I moved instance's home link to the right to prevent any accidental exits. And there is now a solid icon just in case.

If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave a reply.

vintprox, (edited ) to kbin
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Media Preview | Kbin

A fun discovery today: you can expand embed on a thread with a multimedia link, it's one click away and doesn't get you away from . See this little photo-film icon right under the author? When you click it, the embed drops right under and you can:

  • watch the or video,
  • listen to music,
  • look at the full picture,
  • do a lot more without ever leaving Kbin (meaning there are more media websites that we're left to explore!).

Add links to @drbboard with your favorite music, video guides, art, and tell us your experience with this piece of media that you're sharing! Get distraction-free experience for the viewers and the authors.

vintprox,
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If this button is too tiny, let me know and I'll update our custom CSS to make it more accommodating.

Week later: I've added a rainbow-y animation to them.

vintprox, (edited )
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This same button appears for every inline link to Internet multimedia resource, meaning that images and videos can be previewed inside the thread, too.

Nothing is opened by default to avoid slowing down page load.

vintprox, (edited ) to kbin
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Threads? Posts? I'm confused... | Kbin

Terms "thread" and "post" are often used interchangeably on and across the , but, as a reader, you still would like to have some guideline.

Threads are a primary tool of presenting information on Kbin. Think of a thread as a magazine clipping: you cut it out and proudly place on your wall. All you see from afar is a title and some preview image (if any). As you skim over the magazine and click on one such clipping, the entire thread opens before you, now including comments.

Posts are a secondary thing on Kbin. But don't let it fool you: before long, you'll have a microblog of things to share. Yes, posts are usually viewed in the context of Microblog, the section adjacent to Threads. One can call post a micro-thread, of sorts. Unlike your run-of-the-mill thread, a post can present text without any pretence. Reader scrolls through Microblog and they can see contents/replies right away. While lengthy discussions may be collapsed to 1-2 recent replies, it's made so to let other posts shine. As a reader, you don't have to change pages to expand the post.

  • Use Threads to present a pertinent material.
  • Use Microblog to share any updates, tips and little stories.

vintprox,
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@joewilliams007 There are no categories (nor flairs yet) on Kbin, but you're left with tags. As seen in the parent post, there are only few hashtags: kbin, fediverse. Hashtags can act as a categorization unit, their syntax is straightforward and case-insensitive: all that is left is a discipline and creativity from authors.

According to API I've seen, post is just an extension of entry. In the plus menu, there is "Add new post" among other types of entry: link, thread, photo. UI around this is left rigid because of the slight differences in the creation form. That's much unlike Lemmy that gives no such distinction and instead renders some fields very optional - sometimes, it's pretty easy to forget that you're adding a link and that you should put it into URL field, because it was never a requirement in the form (while on Kbin you basically need to fill it out). Read my new guide "How to Add a Thread" to dig into how postings on Kbin and Lemmy differ.

vintprox, (edited ) to kbin
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What qualifies as OC? | dR Bulletin Board

Here on we think of as an original content, or an original creation. Think the entire process of production, from start to finish: can you call this your own work? If preview or anything that sits in the thread you're posting contains copyrighted work of someone else, it's most likely just an adaptation/repost and as such you cannot claim it as OC.

OC threads have this small mark prepended to the title to set it apart from other works. Traditionally, OCs get more liberty from the discovery algorythms. I'm not entirely sure how it works on , compared to , but in any situation think of the reader first and algorythm second.

If the piece you're about to share was made by you and you only, don't hesitate and mark it as the original content! But avoid using OC mark for discussion starters, as they don't prove substantial enough of a work as such...

vintprox,
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@joewilliams007 Internet is a disaster for our OCD already xDD

vintprox, (edited ) to drbboard
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Live Stream Chat Users (Mentions & Search) - Update 1.1 | Userscript for YouTube

A new version of my userscript has been released. It allows you to click-mention channels in the YouTube live chat as usual, but now also suppresses that silly popup YouTube has planted on message card. What's more, you don't have to use double click to search for channel: just use your middle click, mouse wheel, and it will open the search in a new tab.

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/t/50770

vintprox,
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Recent patch 1.1.1 allows switching between "Top chat" and "Live chat", while having all the same functionality of the userscript present.

vintprox, to updates
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@melroy Because of using some very generic tags on your magazine as featured tags, this microblog gets filled with unrelated things.

vintprox,
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@melroy No idea what this tag entails. Doens't look like people spam it much, so LGTM.

vintprox,
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@hitstun For some magazines, even one dominated tag is not enough :P

AFAIK, once you name the magazine certain way, it will fetch posts with hashtag of the same name, which is barely unavoidable. Hashtags are ought to be taken, by design!

vintprox, (edited )
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No way I'm switching to scatterbrained Lemmy just because of people depending on kbin.social instance and hailing centralization. But it's certainly concerning that even close contributors cannot contact each other regarding such emergencies.

I think, if we're going forward with Kbin, there needs to be some agreement on the urgency types for maintainers. Imagine making a tier list of all things that Kbin lacks: what few things would be in an S-tier - well, NEVERMIND, because this big library of images won't show the signs of life, let alone an unplanned downtime of Big Daddy(TM) server.

As expected, this post has triggered few drama queens in the comments. Anyway, glad to hear from you, even though this particular issue couldn't affect me by a long shot, haha.

vintprox, (edited ) to kbin
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People section | Kbin

Default setting is that People section on shows subsections for local and federated users, with 28 profiles max in each. Only users posting within 7 last days appear there.

It is the means of listing any magazine or instance like it's a contacts list. To appear in People section, all you need to do is commenting or creating threads.

vintprox, (edited )
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Do you wish to post as OC? I've sent you instructions in DMs. If you'll do that, I can easily remove/redirect this one and ping those who have favorited in your fresh post.

vintprox, (edited )
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Whether the meme is meant to be shared in some other context or not, I think, is the decision that should be based on the sum of copyright liberation and how generalistic the contents are. Today, I can't bear a thought of reposting some stranger's niche meme on social media without at least attaching a source or creator, because I'm most likely making one more point where engagement with the same meme ends - and reposting full works doesn't qualify as commentary/criticism/research, so it's not a fair use, to begin with.

That's why we are correct of assuming the worst from the bots: programming any fair use considerations is left to gather dust, as it's ultimately something that human has to decide.

vintprox,
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Read tips & tricks in our Microblog - all useful information about , , , and other little stories.

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/microblog

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