Hi there, in the upcoming kbin releases, I will be describing the changes along with author tags, but for now, you can check out what’s happening here: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/activity, as well as my personal feed: https://ernest.dev

Today, two test instances will be created where we will be looking for bugs for some time, and then the changes will be rolled out to kbin.social and hopefully other instances as well :)

I want to accept as many pull requests as possible, currently, there are still 50 open ones. I’m also following your posts and adding new things to the to-do list.

Have a nice day!

  • Mnmalst@kbin.social
    95·
    1 year ago

    Appreciate all your work and I am enjoying kbin but please make sure you are not burning yourself out. I have seen it too many times, especially in open source projects that become super popular all of a sudden. Take care of your mental health and work at a pace that you still enjoy. You don’t ow us anything.

    Have a great Sunday!

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
      43·
      1 year ago

      There’s quite a few of us now helping out with tickets. Great to see lots of people coming together to make the site better. Good to get lots of bugs squashed :)

      • Mnmalst@kbin.social
        18·
        1 year ago

        Love it! But that is or can be part of the “problem”. Suddenly it’s not “I am working on the software I like” anymore but “managing merge requests all day”. Not saying that’s what’s happening here tho. It can be a problem.

        • ernest@kbin.socialOP
          9·
          1 year ago

          @Mnmalst Yeah, I am well aware of what you’re talking about, and I am trying to maintain a balance. I knew that it could look like this at a certain stage, but I didn’t expect it to happen so quickly ;) I assumed I would have a bit more time to prepare and acquire knowledge. Now I have to improvise. I make mistakes, but I try to fix them and always keep an eye on the big picture. That’s all I can do. Working with pull requests is great, I enjoy learning new things from others, and it’s also fun to discover bugs together. At least for now. ;-) But I always emphasize that my priorities are my milestones, which keep me afloat, so I care about organizing our collaboration as quickly and effectively as possible. However, we also need to get to know each other a little better.

          • Mnmalst@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            Sounds like you have a working structure for now. :) I hope it all stays like this for you. I am exited about the future! Wish you the best.

        • CoderKat@kbin.social
          8·
          1 year ago

          I think it’s important to not have a single person having to deal with those. But admittedly it’s hard to get to that point. I’ve only significantly done established, commercial software dev, where you can just trust your coworkers. Random people on the internet are harder to trust. Anyone can play nice for a couple of days for a chance to slip in something malicious.

          The project is not only rather new (so any contributors are gonna be new), but it’s also hosted on an unfamiliar site (which is to say, it’s not GitHub), so most people don’t have an account with history either.

    • mr47@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Is this about the PWA rotating when auto rotation is set to off? Sounds like a bug on the device, as it’s not happening to me.

      • lml@remy.city
        4·
        1 year ago

        That might be android only, I’m not sure. I remember seeing a pull request about it having to do with something in the PWA manifest.

        • mr47@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m on Android 13 with Firefox, and haven’t noticed the issue. Tried specifically to disable the autorotation, rotate the phone while kbin was running - and nothing (it does rotate when autorotation is on). I installed the PWA about a week ago.

        • lml@remy.city
          1·
          1 year ago

          Looks like that’s been fixed actually (if your instance is up to date enough, that was merged in 5 hours ago). I had to reinstall the PWA for it to take effect.

          • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
            5·
            1 year ago

            Just uninstalled and reinstalled /kbin on my Realme X3 - it still rotates irrespective of Android setting. Guess I’ll have to lay on my back a bit longer hehe.

            • lml@remy.city
              2·
              1 year ago

              Bummer. Yeah, I think kbin.social hasn’t gotten those changes added in yet. I’ve just been pulling the new updates once/twice a day onto my instance. It has broken things a couple times though so I get why the larger instances are waiting for actual ‘releases’ of kbin.

            • lml@remy.city
              1·
              1 year ago

              In your browser, if you go into the menu there should be something like ‘Install’, ‘Add to Homescreen’, something like that.

              On chrome it is add to homescreen, but there is also a pop-up at the bottom that gives an install button. The browser menu should be the easiest spot though.

              It creates a shortcut on your homescreen and allows the site to run in full screen mode, so it acts like a native app.

      • Scio@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        @mr47 This issue is browser engine specific rather than device specific, and (annoyingly) falls within valid interpretation of the web manifest standards so it’s not really a bug for the browser engines either. The fix is also within the standards, so that’s good.

    • ripcord@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Which issue? Don’t see it in the links and I’m not seeing anything I can think of that sounds like that (I’m using the PWA on Android, but using Firefox so maybe that’s why)

  • tiredofsametab@kbin.social
    35·
    1 year ago

    I’m really looking forward to https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/167 . Maybe I’m just old or something, but the indent is quite slight sometimes and hard for me to see what belongs at which level at certain levels of nesting.

    I wish I could contribute, but I’ve hardly touched anything UI-related in a decade, and likewise haven’t worked with newer PHP at all.

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’m super super keen on that one. It’s actually the reason I got kbin running locally, so I could implement a quick toggle open/close for deeply nested comments.

      Been following that thread and hope it gets out soon, it’s something I severely miss from Reddit mobile.

      • EnglishMobster@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        I just wish I could hide things I’ve already read. I hate having to scroll past 100 things I’ve already seen/commented on.

  • Perry@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

    Will the test instances be publicly available?

    That would be greatly appreciated by us over at /m/kbinStyles so that it’s possible to see that everything still works before the new version goes live.

    Obviously not exactly high priority, but I thought it was worth asking anyway.

    • tal@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Some of the userscripts could, longer-term, be converted into server-side Web UI features; I think that that’d make them available to a wider audience, since they become available to all browsers without user effort then. However, for any that don’t, I also imagine that it’d also be possible to set up some sort of automated regression testing using Selenium or something like that that warns if it looks like they aren’t working in a new version. That’d take load off human userscript maintainers if the userscripts are going to be around for the long haul, and it’d give a heads-up earlier, potentially as soon as the breaking commit goes into git.

  • lohrun@fediverse.boo
    9·
    1 year ago

    This thread gave me a thought that we need a good place to discuss new features and bugs of existing features. I know we have kbinMeta but that is more like discussion of the overall site and the “meta” of things.

    Anyways, @kbinfeaturerequests is the place I made for us to discuss feature ideas, pull requests in the pipelines, and pretty much anything in that realm.

  • DrChickenbeer@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    @ernest just want to thank you for all of the hard work you’ve done and are doing. Kbin is something really special and you’ve been going above and beyond with it.

  • FakeJake@fr3diver.se
    7·
    1 year ago

    Jumping on this to mention two things:
    Firstly, thanks to all that are helping develop this. Once I got our instance up and running i was impressed with the whole thing. Potentially related: I have more gray hairs now. Let’s just say I’m glad to see that work is being done to simplify the docker setup and improve the admin documentation.

    Secondly, one behaviour I’ve noticed is when searching for a new magazine/community, one of the instance admins is listed as owner and moderator and is automatically subscribed to this new (to our instance) magazine/community, and the created date is listed as when we first searched for it.
    Is this a bug (known or otherwise) or expected behaviour? Just seems a bit odd…

  • ryan@the.coolest.zone
    7·
    1 year ago

    Thank you for all your continued hard work, Ernest! I can’t imagine the amount of work you have put in as a server admin, as a developer, as front line support, etc.

    For those people reading, if you have the means you can buy Ernest a coffee to thank and support him and his efforts.

  • darkevilmac@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    Somewhat off topic but does kbin currently have a working API? Every instance I’ve attempted an API call on just errors out. Same thing when running a local test instance.

    Would also likely be a good idea to distribute an OpenAPI spec so people can automatically generate API clients in the future.

    Thanks for making such a great platform by the way. Genuinely impressed what a solo dev is able to build with activitypub.

  • ngmi@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    Please don’t make me scroll the whole thread with comments just to reach the comment input. Super discouraging

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yep, this one has been brought up a few times and it looks like it’s under discussion (the idea of it being at the end is to encourage everyone to read first etc)

      While that’s a good philosophy overall, a thread like this is a perfect example of why we should have one at the top also, you just want to post a quick comment saying thanks for the work and move on, having to scroll heaps far especially on mobile is rough

        • 0rito@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          Depends on your mobile browser. There are numerous third-party chromium-based browsers that support mobile extensions, such as Opera. There’s also Firefox that supports mobile extensions. In either of those situations, you’d simply install TamperMonkey. I do agree that Chome/Edge should bring extension support sooner rather than later.