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.
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.
Thanks for sharing, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Even with my other scripts turned off. Looking at your screenshot, is that Safari on IOS? Maybe an OS specific issue as I'm on Windows using Firefox. Not pressuring you to fix it, just letting you know it might not work on other platforms.
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.
Unfortunately a) that doesn't work for me on mobile, only desktop (seems like a few people have reported the same issue, it keeps reverting to all so I have to manually go to my subscribed page each time) and b) that doesn't help anyway as I'm subscribed to a mix of big and small communities - so what I'm looking for is a way to go direct to one of the smaller communities (as I could on Reddit) because they get drowned out on my subscribed page.
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?
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?
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.
Hey I installed this and it's working fine, so thank you! But the communities outside of kbin that I'm subscribed to are not showing up at all, even though they're listed under my subscriptions in my profile. Is there a setting I missed somewhere?
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
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.
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.
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.
Could do what Outlook/Teams does and abbreviate the name in a generic icon somehow. Or offer some sort of custom input, either put in your own personal icon or piece of text.
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.
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.
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.