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feature wishlist (media.kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This site is getting better everyday, big shout out to @ernest , you're doing a fantastic job :)

I think some kind of user polled for a feature wishlist would really help you getting a grasp on what the users on kbin are eager to see on this site and maybe point out things that would improve it a lot and make an overall continually better user experience( kinda like a "ticketing system" for you/ people working on the project).

This should be as simple as possible, maybe there can/ should be different sections for UI, site functions, etc. so maybe important functional points won't get swepped under the rug by, but maybe someone with knowledge on this things can elaborate on this.

keep it up and take care :)

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks, once I deal with the formalities that need to be taken care of first, I feel like next week will bring a downpour of improvements in the release, thanks to the contributors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey ernest, quick question about federation. I setup /m/genart, and I set the tags to follow (eg. GenerativeArt). On my mastodon account I can see many more posts tagged with GenerativeArt than what shows up in the microblog. Is this expected? and how can I improve it? I'm currently working through following the same accounts as my old masto account.

re: feature requests -> #1 thing I'd love to see is the ability to migrate accounts, so I can port my followers from my old masto account to my new kbin account :))

Anyway, I know you're busy af, so I'm not expecting a response. No pressure. Love the site and thanks for all your hard work!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@aebrer Hey, in order for tagged content to appear on the microblog, either you or someone else on the instance needs to follow the author of the post. kbin is designed to create a network of mutual friends. We recently experienced stability issues, and some messages may not have reached the instances. Please try following those accounts again. Some instances may still temporarily block us due to Cloudflare protection. If that doesn't help, send me a private message, and I'll verify what's going on.

I also hope that migrations in various directions will be established soon.

Starting today, I can afford to answer a few new questions and a few from my backlog. That's what I can handle at the moment. Hopefully, I'll be able to be here more frequently soon :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome thank you so much for the detailed response! I will keep making progress refollowing my network then :))

One thing to possibly note: it seems there's something weird about the federation with mastodon.art; no one shows up from that server when you search for them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@ernest May I suggest https://changemap.co using that for another project I am a part of and works very well for $20/month

@mpro

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Dark mode? The site only exists in dark grey, no?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

the site actually has a few themes already

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There are a few themes. I’m assuming they mean a pure black mode. That’s what I’m hoping for. That and a jump to next parent commitment button.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There are several dark mode themes here.

Including solarized dark.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this was just an example, I have dark reader installed so I didn't even know what the site looked like for others ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With dark reader active, because they broke a ton of stuff about 6 months ago, it also doesn't detect the site is already dark and makes things worse. You can't tell whether you've upvoted things, for example. Recommend disabling it for the site.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ah yes, true, turning it off at least shows the upvoted number in green. site itself works great with it being active for me. personally would still prefer it to be even more pronounced, like a color change of the whole button for example

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, there is a light mode, but it defaults to dark

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would def like to see more themes, but at least for iOS in Safari and chrome there are 2 light, 2 dark, and 1 sepia themes which is awesome

I can't remember exactly what page it was on, maybe settings at the bottom?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Comic sans hype!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Having the ability to expand/shrink replies and trees would be nice. Once I'm done reading a few replies to something I'd like to minimize that tree and read others.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yup that’s me! it’s gone through several reviews and i envision it to hopefully go in once ernest has some time to breathe!

if u want to see gifs of it in action: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/167

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's a userscript that you can install using Tampermonkey that lets you collapse comments. There are a few others at /m/kbinStyles that also let you do that, and add other enhancements

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please, move the comment box to the right after the main post. I think Kbin would have a lot more engagement if people didn't have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page in order to post something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, is that where it supposed to be? Spent a very frustrated first 30 minutes trying to figure out how to reply to any OP.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love to not have a bunch of random magazines on the top bar. Heck, I'd love to be able to choose what is there, much like how RES does it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was just me ... what's even the point of having seemingly random (but mostly empty) magazines just sit there?

In the meantime, I can't find a way to get an overview of the magazines I am subscribed to...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I opened an issue for this a while back - https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/100

For your subscriptions, you can find a list in your profile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

thought that was an actual webpage for a moment and not a concept for one