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Kbin Slim - A minimalist theme inspired by old.reddit.com (userstyles.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by the8thbit@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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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.

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[–] arkcom@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Very nice. Also post to m/kbinStyles. Here it will get lost pretty quick.

[–] admin@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is cool. While I found the regular UI fine for me, I get why some people would want something like this. Nice job!

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you! :)

[–] Maximilious@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks! I'll look into making mobile tweaks eventually. Right now mobile should be identical to vanilla, other than the vote color changes.

[–] hundertzwoelf@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

If you go to settings, you can disable thumbnails to make room for more posts.

[–] NewWorldOverHere@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I’m very tech illiterate.

…Is there anyway I can use this on safari from my iPhone, as it is right now?

I’ve exclusively used old.reddit for the past decade and would love to go back to that visual!

[–] IntergalacticTowel@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Absolutely love it, much better. Great work!

[–] ngmi@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Awesome, thank you!

[–] Mnmalst@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Looks very good, combined with the excellent https://userstyles.world/style/10313/ theme it's perfect. Thanks!

[–] lavender@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love it! If you want to spend the time on it, can you take a look at microblogs too?

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Fantastic! Thank you so much, this is exactly the look I didn't know I needed for this site!

[–] fsniper@mastodon.social 3 points 2 years ago

@the8thbit I wish we could integrate these info kbin itself. Unfortunately I use a mobile browser without extensions.

[–] Pietson@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very cool. Does it work with the default colour changing options?

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yep! It should look good with any of the 5 kbin color themes.

[–] datgooddude@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Nice work! Do you think they will add shortcuts to your subscribed communities/magazines like old.reddit has?

[–] Cyb3rManiak@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Awesome. Didn't even know Stylus existed, and this style works for me. Thanks.

[–] cthonctic@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Neat! Looks like a fully baked version of the quick&dirty userstyle I had been throwing together for my own usage throughout the last couple of days.

Very happy to retire mine in favor of yours! :D

[–] QHC@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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).

[–] GoodKingElliot@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could you give me basic instructions for how to use this?

[–] RodPhoto@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
  1. Install a browser extension called "Stylus"
  2. Navigate to the provided link (https://userstyles.world/style/10437/kbin-slim)
  3. Click on the INSTALL button on the lower right.
  4. Donesies
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