this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
25 points (100.0% liked)

/kbin meta

110 readers
1 users here now

Magazine dedicated to discussions about the kbin itself. Provide feedback, ask questions, suggest improvements, and engage in conversations related to the platform organization, policies, features, and community dynamics. ---- * Roadmap 2023 * m/kbinDevlog * m/kbinDesign

founded 2 years ago
 

There's a chance that I have forgotten something or missed something.

But these are my finds, so far.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These points are not a priority, but relatively easy to achieve. They will gradually appear on the instance in between working on significant things. It's worth following https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog

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

I'm just wondering about 'spoiler alert' - what is it exactly? I haven't delved into Lemmy's code for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would guess it's the capacity of masking text through markdown for spoiler purposes:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/104

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

masking text
Like this?

kbin does that just fine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh my Deity how did you do that?!

I've been cursing enviously for days when I see a spoiler (system) I couldn't use myself!
I didn't get Lemmy's style to work.

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

hidden text title
hidden text

hidden text titlehidden text
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

test
Does this thing work?

sigh Finally.
Now I just need to find a convenient way to save this piece of code and copy-paste it whenever I need it 🤔

.


...except that when I wrote more text into this comment, the code broke 🤔

Upon further testing - if I edit a text, the spoiler stops working. When I update the page, the spoiler works again.

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

Indeed, I missed that case, thanks.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ironically, that doesn't work for me at all. (I have seen other spoiler blocks recently though, so not sure why not.)

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

Is it browser-, operating system- or device-related?

I'm on Windows PC, Firefox, at https://kbin.social/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm poking around at it now. I'm guessing it's probably something to do with JavaScript -- which I block by default via NoScript. (That's kind of odd though since I thought it was generating a /\ HTML block server side, but maybe it's doing it on the client and I just happened to have JS unblocked when I saw it before?)

Edit: It looks like it is coming from this webpack'd JS file currently which I think is built from this JS source file; there is a handleSpoilers function defined which manipulates details/summary elements. Oddly, there is also PHP code for manipulating details/summary like I thought.

@ernest can chime in on if that's a temporary thing or what, but yeah, it seems to not work for me because I block JavaScript.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yo, that is so good to know!
Wish there was a link to some quick stylesheet guide that kbin supports when you write a comment. Haven't seen this feature before.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] I think it's for the functionality used in this random comment I found.

https://lemmy.world/comment/4533835

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are microblogs on Kbin.

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

Indeed, and then there is a whole raft of searching, sorting and filtering options for Microblog posts (aka Toots) which kbin does, and which Lemmy can't even see.

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

Yeah, didn't remember that, even though I've used them a little 🤦‍♂️

Updated!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Needs a line about tankies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More pleasing UI

Boosts

Seeing upvoters and downvoters

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm so happy that now I can edit the thread picture afterwards!

Needed to edit the picture many times! 😂

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

Threads (a.k.a. posts on Lemmy) can be hashtagged on /kbin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Added hashtags

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

Random/related toot and thread suggestions

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

"Random posts" and "Random threads" on sidebar. When you are in a particular thread/mag, this feature still serves randomised posts/threads but with related tags.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aaa!

Is it close/the same as this over Lemmy?

I only see this community-related thingie though - selecting a random post/thread doesn't give me any bar of random threads.

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

Picture updated!

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

What do the colors mean?

Green: software has feature, red: software lacks feature?

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

Affirmative!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If by "spoiler alert" you mean

spoiler
this

then it's supported now (ernest added it some days ago).

Win+. is a Windows functionality, yeah.

Some differences not yet mentioned are

  • boosts (mastodon's equivalent to twitter's retweets)
  • bookmarks / saving stuff (supported on lemmy, not yet on kbin)
  • votes on kbin are public, while they're hidden on lemmy
  • magazine/community css (supported on kbin, I think not supported on lemmy)

Does Lemmy mark new comments in posts? Since kbin just added that recently.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can’t boosts count as bookmarks?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it would depend on how you work with it.

If you use it only for bookmarking threads, then kinda yeah.
But if you just give thumbs up to stuff without ever returning later, then it would probably be difficult to find your bookmarks from between.

My personal opinion?
I'd rather keep them apart, cos I feel they are a different function and useful apart as well.

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

of all these beautiful features, gotta say the CSS styling on the mags is my FAAAAVVEEE. i love doing it. i kinda go overboard and need to reel it in, but the ability to personalize your mag is so fun. though, people should have an option to toggle mag styles off, they can be distracting or the best part about the mag lol (ㅅ´ ˘ `)

load more comments
view more: next ›