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Mockup: I'm a fan of having all my favorite subs/magazines to access on a glance.
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How can I turn it on?
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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it's a mock-up, if you missed comment below
Oh, well. Thanks.
😂
It's a good sign that Kbin is developing rapidly when even ernest loses track of what features it has. :)
I think @ernest was just being cheeky. Kbin hasn't changed much UI wise since the reddit explosion started. It's been mostly under the hood, trying to keep the ship upright in the rocky storm of users.
You've got to buy it dinner first!
/jokes
We know you're working hard... this would be nice to have but we appreciate you and all you do.
Same tbh
I want the ability to customize the top bar with the magazines I want to be able to quickly access. It's a feature that is in RES you can shortcut any subreddit to be on the top bar.
Honestly, I feel like Kbin is missing RES type of extension. Meanwhile, I found some good scripts on GreasyFork for Tampermonkey that scratch some missing features while browsing kbin.
The only reason for RES is that Reddit is closed-source.
I think that that's the vast bulk of the reason, but I could believe that there are things that maybe someone wants implemented that Ernest disagrees with and so they provide it as a client-side hack.
But, yeah, probably would be preferable to just patch it in the Web UI. Or in some of the upcoming clients.
Yeah this is what I'm missing the most about Kbin is just being able to quickly browse to my favorite communities and magazines with a click.
This mockup is a great utilization of the horizontal deadspace on the sides.
I really wanted something similar so I threw a quick and dirty tampermonkey script together to fetch the subscriptions from the settings page. I think it worked out pretty alright.
Edit: Someone else can probably do something a lot better, but here is the code: https://pastebin.com/P0mR9QL6
Paste it into a new script and call the addSubscriptionsSidePanel() function to run it.
Edit2: I've uploaded it to Greasy Fork so that you can install it directly: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469139-kbin-subscriptions-panel
link to script?
Do share, this would be a great boon for a lot of us while something similar get officially implemented.
I'm not entirely sure how to properly ping users, but I've updated the comment with a pastebin with the code. https://pastebin.com/P0mR9QL6
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Would be nice to make use of that giant empty space on either side of the content.
This I what I just don’t get! As a user of RES, the “new Reddit redesign” or whatever it was, was so heinous to me because of all the empty space on the left and right of the page. Even on Lemmy.world I kinda get the same feeling, UI wise, on desktop. Kbin isn’t as bad tho when it comes to wasted space
A real problem I've had since I got here is that many of the communities I want to engage with are quite small, and so their posts get drowned out on my 'subscribed' page by posts from the bigger communities I'm subscribed to. I need a quick way to get to them so I can view their content, and at the moment getting to them is far too convoluted.
You can change your homepage in settings to subscribed. So whenever you hit home it takes you to your subbed page. I keep on it All for now since so many magazines are empty but as the site fills out I will switch it to subbed.
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Made a script that does it, here's a link if anyone's interested: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469121-floating-subs-list
Note that it'll only work on screens wider than 1136px.
This is very nice, thanks for this! I know it's early stages yet, but I have about 6 different monkey scripts installed right now and they all add so much to the experience until they can be merged with core.
This is amazing! It basically recreates my reddit browsing experience and makes the whole site so much easier to navigate!
I can see references in the code to "sort alphabetically" (which would be very welcome!)... but I can't see the button. Did that function not make it into this version of the script?
Thanks again!
Huh, are you running version 0.2 of the script? I pushed the sorting update not too long ago and I don't currently have it configured to auto-update. If you are up to date, would you mind telling me your browser and which monkey extension you're using?
Ah! It looks like I wasn't on the latest version... updated and it works perfectly now! Thanks!
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Ah, so I'm NOT stupid and there isn't actually a convenient way to list your subscribed magazines on your front page. That seems like such a simple feature though.
Edit: speaking of this, is there a way to easily see the context of a reply, like how on reddit you can just keep clicking on "context" or "parent comment" and keep going up in the nest? Right now I'm having to go back to the original thread and find my comment to see the comments around it. It'd be nice if they could stick that in the "more" menu.
Unless I'm being stupid again and totally missing it.
That's definitely what I need! And also would be perfect if the deafult view of the homepage had only posts from the magazines that I'm following, without having to go to specific page just for it.
Looks to much like Reddit. Kbin is perfect. also can you imagine if they implemented this. What would the web app look like?
e: I've only been on kbin for 2 days kinda like 1 . I have a lemmy and mastodon account and kbin is more reddit like to me. Haven't been on mastodon all day
Quicker access to magazines I’m subscribed to is like my only actual gripe about desktop at this point. Still rough on mobile because there’s no access to greasemonkey or stylesheet override tools.
This looks amazing and clean. How do we get this?
@shazbot created a nice -monkey script that puts a link to your subscriptions at the top, which I've found super useful. Install it with Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey from here: https://github.com/aclist/kbin-scripts/raw/main/subs.user.js
Adding my emphatic thumbs-up for this feature which I've also been wanting in my interactions with the kbin UI.
Looks great! Would be cool if we could have a choice of between custom UIs for kbin, lemmy, etc. Maybe a plugin system or something?
Looks great! I'dd love this!
This looks amazing! I believe kbin will look really good in the near future
This would be a great feature. It would be even better when we can aggregate different magazines into one category. For example combining all tech magazines from different instances into one technology page. Either manually or curated.
Except for the "r/" i like it! Make it "c/" for lemmy and "m/" for kbin :-)
Leave the prefix off altogether so it works cross server and doesn’t take unnecessary space
Very nice, I'd like to have the first option, not sure how, but it'd be nice to have a easy way to see if it's a community from another instance.
Maybe by appending c/ and m/ or ending all "foreign" communities with .instancename so like just "news" for kbin social but "[email protected]" or "news.world" idk. This could I guess be toggle-able.
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How? How do we get this! We need this now.
yes please! maybe some body can do some css and post it to kbinstyles for the moment ?
I love that and would love to know how to do that
It's just a suggestion. I stiched it together from reddit.
A lot of people in the thread are confused, I think it would be good to edit the post to clarify that it's a mockup/suggestion not a setting that already exists.
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If ever implemented, I'd hope it was optional. Personally, I'd hate it. But more power to those who want the option to view kbin like that.
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