Boosting threads is useful in that it helps shift a post from 'new' (which most people don't check) to 'hot' (which is the default feed for most people). Posts from small communities often die with 0 upvotes and 0 downvotes without that.
Just did a little unscientific test. Made a post in a community that usually gets 20+ upvotes within an hour. No self-boost puts it at 1 upvote after an hour.
That's because of a bug in the hot sorting. It was working fine for a while, and then broke. Upvoting your own post also fixes it. We should probably have our posts self-upvoted by default anyway, like on reddit and lemmy.
We should probably have our posts self-upvoted by default anyway, like on reddit and lemmy.
Well, Lemmy doesn't either. It pretends to exactly so you don't (I assume that's the reasoning). It doesn't actually add an upvote in your name and so it's also not counted as upvoted by you by other platforms. I can only guess it's trying to prevent people from adding an upvote by making them think the platform already did it for them.
Just check Lemmy posts on kbin (considering voting is public). How many of them have the creator as one of the upvoters? New posts with 1 upvote on Lemmy have 0 on kbin.
Discovered this a few weeks ago while testing some federation stuff.
Wait, this posted? I got a 503 telling me it didn't. It may be double-posted; I can't see. I also can't see comments here, but get them in my notifications.
If you've blocked any domains, try unblocking them. Domain blocking is buggy and will hide random stuff from you.
I've got the photo post bug too, but it only seems to affect me on @anime_irl, while @animemes seems to still work fine.
Also, you posted this multiple times, may want to delete the other ones. Whenever you make a post, check the "newest" sort order to make sure it went through, and then upvote your own post to make sure it's visible for everyone on the default "hot" sort order.
That's part of why there's a new fork called Mbin with more active contributors than official Kbin. And Lemmy did get a headstart on Kbin, it was first by a while. Ernest is definitely still working on Kbin, though.
I had some minor turbulence in my private life from which I'm slowly emerging. I have partially stabilized my life situation in various aspects. I hope this will help me smoothly return to old habits, maintain consistency, and keep you updated on what specifically is happening in the project.
This seems to already be implemented and probably coming once Ernest is able to finish the update. You might be able to find other instances that are already featuring this.
Like, I saw strings regarding this when contributing to translations yesterday. Some setting in the sidebar's gear menu to toggle the position.
If you install KES and navigate to the setting Threads > Rearrange post order, you can dynamically change the position of the OP, the comments, the add comment box, and other elements and choose which place you want them to be in descending order. You can direct other questions to our magazine on /m/enhancement as well.
If it's really bugging you, you could put something like this in a GreaseMonkey script:
function move_comment_add() {
let comment_add = document.getElementById("comment-add");
let comments = document.getElementById("comments");
comments.insertAdjacentElement("beforebegin", comment_add);
}
move_comment_add();
Too many posts weren't federating with kbin so I had to make a lemmy account to avoid missing comments from non-kbin communities, so hopefully the federation issues get fixed at some point.
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