How can I turn it on?
it’s a mock-up, if you missed comment below
Oh, well. Thanks.
😂
It’s a good sign that Kbin is developing rapidly when even ernest loses track of what features it has. :)
I think @ernest was just being cheeky. Kbin hasn’t changed much UI wise since the reddit explosion started. It’s been mostly under the hood, trying to keep the ship upright in the rocky storm of users.
@perry just made a tampermonkey script to accomplish something like this, below.
You’ve got to buy it dinner first!
/jokes
We know you’re working hard… this would be nice to have but we appreciate you and all you do.
Same tbh
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.
Edit: Someone else can probably do something a lot better, but here is the code: https://pastebin.com/P0mR9QL6
Paste it into a new script and call the
addSubscriptionsSidePanel()function to run it.Edit2: I’ve uploaded it to Greasy Fork so that you can install it directly: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469139-kbin-subscriptions-panel
link to script?
Do share, this would be a great boon for a lot of us while something similar get officially implemented.
I’m not entirely sure how to properly ping users, but I’ve updated the comment with a pastebin with the code. https://pastebin.com/P0mR9QL6
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.
No worries, it’s my first published Tampermonkey script so there are probably a lot of quirks that should be ironed out.
I’m using Chrome on MacOS. Which extension are you using? I’ve only tested this in Tampermonkey and I did read somewhere that Greasemonkey may have dropped support for the GM_addStyle() function which I’m using.
If possible, it would really help if you could post any errors that you might be getting in the web inspector console.
Ahh I am on Greasemonkey. Let me try Tampermonkey.
EDIT: It worked on Tampermonkey, thanks for the tip.
Awesome! Glad it worked.
Pls share the script, looks great.
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.
The only reason for RES is that Reddit is closed-source.
I think that that’s the vast bulk of the reason, but I could believe that there are things that maybe someone wants implemented that Ernest disagrees with and so they provide it as a client-side hack.
But, yeah, probably would be preferable to just patch it in the Web UI. Or in some of the upcoming clients.
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.
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.
Would be nice to make use of that giant empty space on either side of the content.
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
Made a script that does it, here’s a link if anyone’s interested: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469121-floating-subs-list
Note that it’ll only work on screens wider than 1136px.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?
Thanks again!
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?
Ah! It looks like I wasn’t on the latest version… updated and it works perfectly now! Thanks!
Excellent, thanks for the sorting option!
Does this only list kbin magazines? I see a couple lemmy subscriptions there, but not nearly all of them.
I think the problem is that the subscription page (that the script gets its items from) is paginated, and the script will only get the items on the first page.
Ahh, ok, that makes sense. Thanks!
The whole paginated thing needs to go away, platform wide.
I wonder if it would be possible in future to sort mags by the number of comments you’ve made in that sub. Obviously the ones you’re commenting a lot are the best to be at the top.
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?
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.
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.
This looks amazing and clean. How do we get this?
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.
@shazbot created a nice -monkey script that puts a link to your subscriptions at the top, which I’ve found super useful. Install it with Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey from here: https://github.com/aclist/kbin-scripts/raw/main/subs.user.js
Adding my emphatic thumbs-up for this feature which I’ve also been wanting in my interactions with the kbin UI.
Opinions?
And another example.That assumes there’s a consistent icon theme for every magazine doesn’t it?
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Just that without the text and only an icon it would be hard to differentiate it.
I mean, assuming it defaults to expanded at first, it’s not a big deal. Just something to consider from a usability perspective
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This one would require every magazine/community to have an icon, which most don’t lol
Would be simple/sensible to just default to kbin/lemmy logo if they don’t though
True but then you have a stack of icons that all look the same.
No big deal when it’s expanded but when collapsed it makes it hard to visually identify what’s what.
Fixes:
Add a single letter based on the magazine like outlook does with contactsHave an alt title that shows when you hover (not as useful with phones but still)
Default to expanded so you can collapse it but the default shows the icon and the associated label
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.
Yes please! This + multi-magazines (like multi-reddits) would complete this site for me. Well, that and 2FA.
Looks great! Would be cool if we could have a choice of between custom UIs for kbin, lemmy, etc. Maybe a plugin system or something?
