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artillect

@artillect@kbin.social

I like turning things into other things
he/him | California, USA

kbin Enhancement Suite: a community-curated script manager that lets you customize your kbin experience

A couple of weeks ago, @shazbot made this post about a project that they were working on. Since then, @shazbot, @ori, @minnieo and I have been hard at work, and we are excited to finally announce the official release of kbin Enhancement Suite (KES)!...

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He briefly mentions making a "neural processor" in the middle of the video, so maybe it's possible down the line?

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We'll take a look at that and try to sort it out ASAP

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Sweet! Glad you're liking it so far :)

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Edit: It appears that this doesn't completely work, we'll keep working on it

I've figured out the issue, as soon as @shazbot sees my pull request on GitHub there should be an update that fixes it! For a temporary fix for now though, you can Ctrl-F GM. and replace them with GM_ (there should be 4 of these, on lines 17, 18, 128, and 133), and remove the await on line 133

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Thanks! I worked really hard on that before working on KES, and it was super easy to integrate my script into it

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Thank you, hopefully we're able to expand its feature set soon!

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Thanks for all of your help, I love being able to see Kibby up in the top left of my screen ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ

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Ernest is definitely aware of some of these (he's been spying on us over at @kbinStyles lol), it'd be great to have them be built in! I love that we've got so many people making mods for kbin, it allows you to make things at a super quick pace

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Honestly, it's a great question! While kbin is open source, making userscripts allows you to iterate on changes and get updates out very quickly. It's also much easier to start making userscripts than it is to contribute directly to the project, since you only really need to be familiar with JS, HTML, and CSS. To contribute to kbin, you need to be familiar with PHP and Twig, and set up your own instance for testing your changes.

Plus, while kbin is open source, not every single change will be merged, and there will likely always be features "missing" from it. Userscripts also give you a ton of freedom and flexibility in how you use sites, so you could make crazy changes that aren't remotely possible to merge into it.

Hope that answers your questions!

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Is it not showing up? I made it earlier but it hasn't gotten any votes or comments, I wonder if that's why

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I just reposted it, seems to be showing up now

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I'm hoping there will eventually be kbin update or userscript that allows you to change the text size of comments separately from the rest of the site.

That should actually be somewhat easy to do, I just created an issue for it on GitHub. I'm gonna be busy the next few days so I won't be able to work on it until later, but maybe someone else will beat me to it!

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It seems like this is the opposite of the issue we were having with Violentmonkey, we'll see what we can do about fixing it

Please direct bug reports and feature requests for kbin Enhancement Suite to our GitHub repository :)

If you have found a bug, have any ideas for improvements, or want a new feature to be added to KES, please search the issues page to see if someone else has already submitted an issue. If there isn't one, go ahead and create a new issue, and we will get to it ASAP!

/kbin project management costs, financing, future plans

I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started...

kbin.social lifecycle: from 181 unique visitors to 2.9M in three months.
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All funds from Buy Me a Coffee will be transferred to this pool, but from now on, I'll treat it as buying me a coffee... or a beer... literally ;)

Get yourself something strong, you’ve earned it!

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Yes, finally! Ever since the minecraft wiki moved away from gamepedia, it's been absolutely terrible. I avoid Fandom at all costs.

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