/kbin meta @kbin.social revengebreaker @kbin.social 12mo ago

"Boost" needs a visual rework on kbin

It is the most unsatisfying feature on kbin.

We need something like this:
https://giphy.com/gifs/tri-indonesia-boost-triindonesia-duniatri-3BpyyvDfffs7t22Ged

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I'm not taking this literally, but Tumblr actually does add flashy stuff like this a lot (they added fucking confetti when you make a post. WHY) and it has been hell for my photosensitive friends.

I do think we need any kind of visual feedback though, maybe some sort of accent color. I find myself second-guessing a lot if I actually clicked on a button or not
- idkbin takes care of that
I don't think it needs anything super flashy. In the userstyle I made, I made the boost button change color when clicked. Looks much nicer than the underline we currently have.
lol

Yeah, boost is kinda out of place. I know it was counted as reputation instead of upvote probably for how things are different in fedi but it's too out of place. Now it just looks like the little social media share count on some websites.
- I find it useful. I follow my Kbin account from Mastodon, anything I boost I then see there - and can boost it to Mastodon easily.
  
  If people followed my Kbin account and I used it as my main for everything, then boost would be useful without the double boosting.
  
  Maybe have the upvote button also boost the post would be the way to go?
  
  You're not the only one. Boost is incredibly useful for sharing beyond Kbin.
  
  What's weird is following. I follow a couple of other users, but I don't have any feed or way to see their activity.
I actually came to this thread hoping for what a boost actually does. So far as I can tell the functionality doesn't exist on lemmy, or it's hidden behind something else. I know it does something on Mastodon but never having used Mastodon I couldn't tell you what that might be. Presumably it's quite different from the up and down arrows which do exist on lemmy and I'm guessing are how the "hot" ranking algorithm works. Suppose I could go to the code and read it, if I get real curious, but if someone has a mental model already, or the right piece of documentation, and wouldn't mind sharing it that'd be real appreciated.
- A boost puts that post into your outbox, which means it'll get sent to the inbox of any user who follows you. Lemmy doesn't support following users which is why boosts aren't visible there. Users on pleroma, misskey, streams, hubzilla, mastodon, and the rest of the microblogging fediverse can see boosts if they're following you
  
  I should probably stop boosting everything I find remotely noteworthy. Good thing no one follows me. I'd be a spam generator for them.
  
  That makes a lot of sense, appreciate the explanation!
  
  That's a bit disappointing as it would mean many boosts would have little to no effect at all within the forum atmosphere since following someone isn't a typical thing outside of microblogging. I had read suggestions that it was a refreshing of the post into the feed, so an old or new post that got boosting would get new life for visibility.
Make it the Kbin mascot flying up, like an icon

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