Boabab

joined 2 years ago
[–] Boabab@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I agree. One of the things that I really love about open source projects that gain popularity like this, is that the community can get really involved with the process of development and it can allow the project to evolve noticeably fast. It's quite the opposite of a large corporation where all small decisions are made by having a lot of meetings, with a lot of people that are only looking for the highest profit margin. I'm looking forward to see what the future of Kbin might hold.

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

That's exciting! Scripts like these are really awesome and are not only a great way for users to tinker with the site to their liking, they are also some sort of feedback and an idea box for you guys (I noticed you contribute to the code of Kbin). But although scripts can be awesome, it's even better when they are not "needed" because the functionality is build right into the site itself. Not to say I dislike the current vanilla experience. It's already very good!

Thank you for your contributions, you guys are awesome!

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

I didn't even know Safari has extension support nowadays. Great to hear it all works without issue, it's such an improvement!

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

I'm on Firefox as well, so I don't think that is the issue. This is how it looks on my side Example.

This are the settings that I use:

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About the double OP tag: I just noticed that bug too in another thread, but now it seems to be gone again. Maybe it's a one time thing. It's a bit buggy in these early stages anyway, hopefully it will get fixed.

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

You're welcome! I really like the sidebar as well! It makes it way easier to see which Magazines I'm subscribed to and to quickly switch to them. Since I've installed that userscript I've been visiting separate Magazines a lot more, instead of just scrolling through my home page.

KUP also goes great with KES so far, they complement each other nicely. Best thing to me about KUP is the inline previews of articles. That was one of my favorite features of RES back on Reddit, so I'm excited to see an equivalent on Kbin :)

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

That's weird, I don't have that issue myself. The only small bug that I've noticed in the floating subs bar, is that it makes the rest of the website slightly less centered when opened. But that resolves itself when I close it again. You could try doing a full (cache) refresh of the webpage (Ctrl+F5). Sometimes that fixes those kind of issues.

E: You could of course also give the alternative sidebar a try. I really like that that sidebar groups magazines/communities with the same name together. However, it wouldn't load my magazines on my system. It just kept spinning a loading icon. Maybe it does work for you, it's worth a try!

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

Very cool! I will add it to the thread. Thanks for sharing :)

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

I think I will, thanks! I've also just posted a small list of Kbin userscripts that I like to spread awareness and added yours as well :)

[–] Boabab@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

This is great! I added it to my list of Kbin userscripts :)
Thank you for creating and sharing!

[–] Boabab@kbin.social 37 points 2 years ago (5 children)

There is so much news like this coming from France lately. What is going on over there?

[–] Boabab@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I do this as well and sometimes I switch federation off/on. But I would love to have a way to influence how much a magazine/community pops up in my feed though: by giving a "weight" to a magazine/community that could be accounted for in the ranking algorithm, you would be able to prioritize them. If you like a specific magazine you could give it more weight, which could rank all the posts from that community higher on your feed.

But let's say that I don't want all news clogging up my feed. However, when there is something very big going on that gets a lot of upvotes, I still want to read it as it might be something important or more interesting than the average post from that magazine. In that case I would subscribe to the magazine and give it less weight, so only the highest ranked threads show up.

I think @ernest is already way to busy right now though, but I wanted to share my idea anyway :)

[–] Boabab@kbin.social 39 points 2 years ago

Damn, what a great guy. He doesn't just make it easy to request a refund that he needs to pay from his own pocket. He actually made it opt-out. I've always used RiF on Android, never used Apollo. But Christian earned a lot of my respect in the last few weeks. Fuck Reddit and fuck how they screwed the people that helped them build the platform into what it is today.

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