Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly indie sci-fi & fantasy magazine: short stories, poetry, and essays. I never know what to expect from its stories. They're often evocative, engaging, and weird, and they make me look at the world in a different way. Don't read it through. It's best savored.
Thanks, this is a really helpful roundup of links – a lot to consider.
This comment is especially interesting. It makes me think kbin should stop translating "upvotes" and "downvotes" into Fediverse concepts, and should instead embrace the Fediverse concepts and present them directly: instead of upvote and downvote buttons we could have 🚀 (boost) and ⭐️ (favorite) buttons, perhaps with a combined score for sorting. It would mean abandoning downvotes, but it sounds like downvotes are a problem anyway.
That would give us a reputation system that makes it clear what you're doing when you boost a post or comment, but also one that won't be jarring to users of other apps and instances.
I think the /new form itself is fine as implemented today. What's missing in the current implementation – but present in this comp – is the "Add content" button at the top of the right rail. I'd expect that to be present when I'm logged in and looking at a specific magazine, and I'd expect it to link to /m/<magazine slug>/new
A similar button is present as part of the instance-wide intro box that atop the right rail in a logged-out view, but it disappears once I log in and there's no equivalent button in the magazine section.
I also think this comp's stronger treatment of the "+ Add" button in the global nav bar helps by making the button stand out a little more, but it's still grouped on the right side of the global nav. The problem is that everything else in that area of the nav is a global, instance-wide action, so intuitively it's not the place we look for a magazine-specific action like adding a new article.
Reddit refugee myself. I've not seen anyone mention Kbin there yet (it was someone on a lemmy instance that suggested it to me) so I'm not sure it'll experience the same influx.