I love the idea of kbin, but I've found the UX could be improved. Honestly, I like it better than new reddit already, but I find it doesn't quite feel as nice as old.reddit.com to me.
This motivated me to throw together a stylus theme to give kbin a little more of an old.reddit feel. I got rid of a lot of the whitespace which pads out the site, and made some other tweaks I think make it look better. I've also replaced both the upvoted and downvoted colors with ones that are a little easier to read regardless of which color theme you're using.
This stylesheet should be compatible with any kbin UX configuration. Its been tested with every theme, compact mode, thumbnails, all 3 font sizes, and all of the other kbin user options. It shouldn't interfere with the mobile view either, however, all of the changes, other than the vote colors, are turned off since kbin's vanilla mobile view is pretty solid. (at least, imo)
I also tried to keep this accessible, using rem for most sizing, so if you configure your browser to have a custom font size, this SHOULD play nicely.
This is a WIP, so if you notice that anything is broken or ugly, please don't hesitate to let me know.
If there's any interest in integrating any of these styles into kbin proper let me know. I'd love to help kbin look beautiful out of the box, and I'd happily put in a PR, but I figured starting with a stylus theme would be safer since I'm not sure if the admins or community have an interest in these changes yet. Obviously if I did put in a PR I'd rewrite a lot of this to take better advantage of custom properties and integrate these styles into the kbin stylesheets less awkwardly.
I adore this. I defaulted to old.reddit.com with an extension for good reason. I don't mind the way kbin looks but stuff like this might make the move over here easier for new users.
I would love this for mobile view myself tbh. I'm used to RiF where I could view 10 posts at once before scrolling, but the kbin progressive app and mobile browser only give me 3-4 due to the content being stacked on top of the title. Moving it to the side like this would alleviate that to some degree I think.
I'm not sure if you can install stylus in mobile safari. However, even if you could, I left the mobile (portrait) view largely unchanged. I'll eventually take a look at doing a proper mobile view, but I didn't want to deal with that headache yet lol
Stylus is awesome! I recommend checking out DarkReader as well. Even if you don't like dark mode, you might find it useful. It automatically recolors sites (by default, to a dark mode), but its highly configurable through various sliders and options that effect how themes are autogenerated.
When I go to a new website/app from desktop, the first thing I always do is tinker with darkreader, stylus, and whatever site settings exist to get a look and feel I like. :)
Pretty slick. The absolute positioning and sizing of the avatars and voting buttons is a little finnicky on Chrome. But tweaking the sizes a bit made it workable.
So, I threw that together right before bed as an experiment. As I mentioned in this comment it actually uses MORE space, but looks a little nicer imo... but yes, I had to do some really hacky stuff with the positioning to get it to work with the grid used for comments.
If you wouldn't mind, could you provide a screenshot of the issue you're experiencing and/or the code you changed to fix it? That way I could fix if for everyone :) Do you use a non-standard font-size?
Not sure honestly. And I reallllly suck at CSS so take what I say and did with a grain of salt. Here's what it looked like before my changes (me replying to you):
Sure! Thanks for giving me a heads up, I haven't looked at microblogs at all with this stylesheet yet. Luckily it doesn't seem to break anything, but I'll work on making it a little cleaner like the rest of the sheet tomorrow after work.
For anyone else that was already using the "Kbin.it" style, looks like this conflicts a bit (up and down vote buttons didn't look right). I ended up just turning that off now that Kbin has directly added those features (expand/collapse comment tree and moving the reply form to the top of the page).
Where can you turn off user avatars? I thought I had seen it before but I can't find it now in settings. I'm not sure if it's because I'm currently on mobile or I'm just remembering seeing it in Lemmy.
Edit: Found that option in the theme settings section which are just further down the page and not in the settings under username.
But I have avatars off and even without any style sheet modifications I'm seeing them.
I believe that option turns avatars off when looking at entry summaries (like when you're on the main page, or on a page for a mag) but there isn't a way to turn them off in the comments section.
I did actually end up making the comment section avatars larger so that I could put the voting controls under them right before I went to bed last night... thats one of the few places where my changes use up more space, but they give more of a reddit "feel" since doing that puts the vote controls close to where they were on reddit (old and new) and looks cleaner despite using more space...
idk how I feel about it, its technically less "slim" but looks a little prettier.
Hey! Thanks for the style, I am loving it!
I customized it to get rid of the padding at left right of the main section to use every pixel on my monitor :)
The last thing I'm trying to do, is moving the image/preview of the thread at the left (now they are all the way to right) like in reddit.
How can I achieve this?