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ThatOneKirbyMain2568, in What's the quickest way to find a magazine/community you've subscribed to?
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You can go to "Settings" or "Profile" and you'll find a subscriptions tab.
Alternatively, you can install a userscript that adds a faster way of accessing them. Here's one I recently made and one made by raltsm4k.

HeartyBeast, in What's the quickest way to find a magazine/community you've subscribed to?

If you go to ‘Settings’ you will see a ‘Subscriptions’ tab - all your magazines are listed in there - sadly I haven’t worked out how they are ordered.

PugJesus, in What's the quickest way to find a magazine/community you've subscribed to?
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In your profile, there's a 'subscribed' list. It's not super convenient, but easier than searching.

DarkGamer, in What do you think about upvoting/boosting your own post?
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I'm all for it and I think it's funny when people give me crap for it.

Emu, in A starting guide to kbin.social + support thread for new users
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The kbin owner needs to make things simple and intuitive. It shouldn't require reading pages of introductions and explanations to access a platform like this. That is one thing Reddit did well, is making things super easy and straight foward. All this fediverse stuff shouldn't require people to learn- it's just a forum.

kuontom,
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While I understand the fediverse may pose a learning curve, please note it does not refer to a forum, which is why there are introduction pages. As for Reddit being straight forward, it's been developing for about 18 years now. Kbin in comparison is about two months into development.

olorin99, in Improved Channel Select Menu 0.2.0 — Makes your subscribed magazines and liked channels more accessible
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Found a bug. On mobile the menu is partly offscreen. image. Looks like the menu is aligned with the button rather than with the edge of the screen.

ThatOneKirbyMain2568,
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Just released a new update. Is it fixed?

olorin99,
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Yep, all good now.

ThatOneKirbyMain2568, in Two requests for microblog incorporation into the main feed.
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The first request would definitely be a nice setting to have.

As for the second one, I think microblog posts are pretty easy to distinguish from threads already, as everything's organized completely differently. There's no title, the avatar is in a different spot with a different shape, the upvote button is in a different spot, there's no downvote button, etc. I think changing the color would just be visually jarring more than anything.

Eggyhead,
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That makes sense. I’m actually not used to microblogs, and I never actually got into Twitter, so the distinguishing characteristics don’t really stand out to me as much. I think the color variation would help me better process what I’m looking at.

Pamasich, (edited )
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I think the color variation would help me better process what I’m looking at.

You can change the color yourself btw. The traditional method is to install the Stylus extension/addon, but I think kbin now lets you define your own styling in your profile settings, though I haven't tried it. (tried it now and this doesn't really seem possible there, has the same selector deletion issues as magazine css)

In the HTML code, microblog posts and threads are represented differently. Posts are blockquote, while threads are article. This makes it easy to restyle them via userstyles.

So you should be able to just

div#content {
    > article {
        /* thread styling */
    }
    > blockquote {
        /* microblog post styling */
       background-color: red;
    }
}

You can also define the color in rgb rgb(255,0,0) or hsl (hsl(0,100%,50%)).

Eggyhead,
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I am very pleased that this is possible, but I don’t even know what words to use to even ask how to do something like that.

Pamasich,
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Edit: actually, this isn't behaving as expected, it's coloring comments too... will edit this comment in a moment when I find out why.

Go to your settings (via the dropdown that opens when you hover over your avatar and name in the top right) and you should see the "Appearance" section right at the top, containing a textbox labeled "Custom CSS".

Just paste the code in there.
Here it is again for reference:

div#content {
    > article {
        /* thread styling */
    }
    > blockquote {
        /* microblog post styling */
       background-color: red;
    }
}

If you want to have a bigger textbox, you can drag it longer by clicking and dragging below the scrollbar.

After pasting the code into the textbox, scroll to the bottom of the settings page and press the "Save" button between the Notifications and Account Deletion sections.

You should now see microblog posts in your main feed highlighted in red.

Now you can go back and change the color to something you actually want to see.

You can replace the red with another color name, or you can look up your desired color using this color picker and then copy the HSLA color it outputs below the color picker.

I recommend HSLA over the other options because it's easy to change later. It's just a base color + saturation + lightness + transparency. Rather than having to mix red green and blue in your head like you'd have to for adjusting rgb.

If you just want microblog posts to be a bit lighter or darker (depending on your theme) than threads, you can use hsla(0,0%,100%,0.15) (this makes them lighter, change the 100% to 0% for darker). Tweak the transparency (the last value) to change the intensity of the color change.

Besides the background color, you can also change other CSS properties. Just add additional lines in the pattern property: value;.
For example, you can set a border using border: 1px red solid;, which creates a red solid border of 1 pixel width.
I like to use this site as a reference myself for what properties exist and how they're used.

Pamasich,
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The images I'm using here probably won't work as embeds, but opening them as links should work.

Depending on if you use Firefox or a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, and almost all the others), get yourself the Stylus extension (chromium) or addon (firefox).

Once installed in your browser, open the extension by clicking on the icon next to your address bar. If it's not there, there's a puzzle piece button to open a list of all your extensions where you can click on it. I'm writing this from an Edge perspective, so for other browsers, especially Firefox, this might not be entirely accurate.

This opens up a menu where your current styles are listed and can be turned on/off (well, the list is empty for now of course), and there's buttons to "Manage" and "Find styles".
Above those buttons, there's a link to the current page. Click on the kbin.social part of that link.

This should open up the editor in a new window.
Just copy and paste the following code into that window.

div#content {
    > article {
        /* thread styling */
    }
    > blockquote, > blockquote + .comments > blockquote {
        /* microblog post styling */
        background-color: red;
    }
}

Give the style a name to the left and hit the yellow "Save" button. The site will update in real time, you shouldn't even need to reload it for the changes to take effect after saving. In fact, after saving it once, you don't even have to keep saving it after every change in my experience.

I've changed the above code a bit to also cover the replies to posts, that's what the .comments stuff is about.

This will give you a very red background. I just chose this for the example to make the change obvious to see at a glance. You can replace the red with another color name, or an RGB or HSL value for a more granular choice.

I recommend using HSL if you want to tweak the color later without having to open up a color picker. You just choose a base color, how saturated it should be, and how light you want it. And optionally the transparency.
The HSL equivalent for red is hsl(0,100%,50%).

If you just want microblog posts to be a bit lighter or darker (depending on your theme) than threads, you can use hsla(0,0%,100%,0.15) (this makes them lighter, change the 100% to 0% for darker). Tweak the transparency (the last value) to change the intensity of the color change.

Besides the background color, you can also change other CSS properties. Just add additional lines in the pattern property: value;.
For example, you can set a border using border: 1px red solid;, which creates a red solid border of 1 pixel width.
I like to use this site as a reference myself for what properties exist and how they're used.

shazbot,

New KES mod?

ernest, in Where can I find documentation on how federation works?
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/kbin context https://fedidevs.org/projects/kbin/

0xtero, in Where can I find documentation on how federation works?

Here: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Prouvaire, in Improved Channel Select Menu 0.2.0 — Makes your subscribed magazines and liked channels more accessible

Thanks very much for this. I've been hoping that raltsm4k updates Floating Subs List to incorporate collections, but they haven't been active since mid-last year.

Given your code is partly based on this script, I wonder if you might consider modifyingraltsm4k's Floating Subs List script so that collections appear as part of the sidebar. As a fallback, maybe modify your script so that collections appear before magazines rather than after. This would make it easier to use both scripts, one to access magazines in the sidebar, and the other to more easily access liked collections.

ThatOneKirbyMain2568,
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I'd definitely be up for that! I also got a lot of use out of raltsm4k's sub list, so I can see how some might prefer to have it in that format.

As for sorting collections and magazines in my script, I plan on making a setting so that you can toggle which comes first.

Pamasich, in Improved Channel Select Menu 0.2.0 — Makes your subscribed magazines and liked channels more accessible
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Thanks, this is the best implementation idea for this I've seen yet imo, will definitely be using this from now on.

I haven't found any bugs yet, but I'd like to request two future improvements:

  • Changing the order of magazines and collections

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I have like three collections and a ton of magazines, so having to scroll through all the magazines to reach the collections is a bit of a pain. It's still much easier than before this script, but it would be even better if I could move the collections above the magazines.
On the other hand, someone else might have the opposite situation and would prefer it the way it currently is, so unlike the other user I'm not asking you to just swap the order.
I think the ideal solution would be adding a setting somewhere to determine which comes first. So every user can tailor the functionality to their needs.
:::

  • Support for turbo mode

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Ernest added turbo as an optional mode in the past months (you can find it in the sidebar options). It turns the site into a single page experience, which means kbin.social links don't open the website anew entirely but rather replace the page content, including the changes your script makes. This cuts down on loading time, but it also causes scripts to break.

It would be great if the script were to support turbo mode eventually, especially if Ernest makes it the standard in the future (it is marked as experimental currently, so that's probably the eventual intention).

To do so, you'd have to attach a MutationListener to the body element like I did here. But that will run many times more than just on navigation, so you'd also have to ensure your code does support being run multiple times without breaking.
:::

ThatOneKirbyMain2568,
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These are great ideas, and I'll look into implementing them soon. Thanks for the pointers on turbo mode support!

Auster, in /kbin Issues

Is this thread monitored? Asking because, from what I observed, that federated Hexbear(dot)net users and communities don't seem to be possible to block. Or should I use the contact form?

xep,

I've noticed this too. Is there any workaround? Some Hexbear users are egregious and clutter up posts with meaningless noise.

Raffster,

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    Auster,

    Since this appear to be the most proper thread, I'll keep posting as I see issue. Hopefully a staff member will see the bug reports, then.

    ForestOrca, in /kbin Issues
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    The issue I had with Up/Down Vote, and Boost throwing errors appears to be resolved. Huzzah!!!

    GeekFTW, in can a magazine be permanently deleted? i don't want to attempt to mod when post deletion/moderation is not federated
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    Magazines can be deleted. There is a Delete Magazine button in the Magazine Panel of any magazine you own (on the General tab, first one).

    However at this time it does not appear to be an automatic thing (I believe Ernest has to clear then manually). I've deleted around a dozen so far (which were taken care of within 24h) and have had over a dozen more as well waiting for deletion (which have been sitting there for a month+ as Ernest has been busy as of late, and then the holidays and such).

    hallucination,

    Thanks for the answer!

    Pandantic, in if i delete a post from my mag that is from a user from lemmy, will it be removed on both ends (both kbin and lemmy)?
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    This is only from what I have seen and I have no knowledge of how federation works:

    No. Ex: there have been many spam posts on food@kbin.social that I made a post about. I found out from that post that they were removed from the kbin mod, but I could still see them here on Midwest.social.

    See this post for more info. There is also a link in there about this known issue.

    hallucination,

    well shit, i regret making it now if i can't even moderate it

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