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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Damaskox@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

There's a chance that I have forgotten something or missed something.

But these are my finds, so far.

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[-] ernest@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago

These points are not a priority, but relatively easy to achieve. They will gradually appear on the instance in between working on significant things. It's worth following https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog

[-] ernest@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

I'm just wondering about 'spoiler alert' - what is it exactly? I haven't delved into Lemmy's code for a long time.

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

I would guess it's the capacity of masking text through markdown for spoiler purposes:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/104

[-] Teppic@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

masking text
Like this?

kbin does that just fine.

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh my Deity how did you do that?!

I've been cursing enviously for days when I see a spoiler (system) I couldn't use myself!
I didn't get Lemmy's style to work.

[-] ernest@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

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[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

test
Does this thing work?

sigh Finally.
Now I just need to find a convenient way to save this piece of code and copy-paste it whenever I need it πŸ€”

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...except that when I wrote more text into this comment, the code broke πŸ€”

Upon further testing - if I edit a text, the spoiler stops working. When I update the page, the spoiler works again.

[-] ernest@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Indeed, I missed that case, thanks.

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Now I just need to find a convenient way to save this piece of code and copy-paste it whenever I need it πŸ€”

Honestly, I'd just suggest to add a button for it in the editor after the code one? I think it's a common enough thing to use to warrant it. For every other formatting maybe a little link for a pop up or expandable that shows the remaining formatting rules, similar to how it was on old.reddit.

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I wholeheartedly agree on the editor button!

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[-] RealM@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Yo, that is so good to know!
Wish there was a link to some quick stylesheet guide that kbin supports when you write a comment. Haven't seen this feature before.

[-] e0qdk@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago
[-] e0qdk@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Ironically, that doesn't work for me at all. (I have seen other spoiler blocks recently though, so not sure why not.)

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Is it browser-, operating system- or device-related?

I'm on Windows PC, Firefox, at https://kbin.social/

[-] e0qdk@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I'm poking around at it now. I'm guessing it's probably something to do with JavaScript -- which I block by default via NoScript. (That's kind of odd though since I thought it was generating a /\ HTML block server side, but maybe it's doing it on the client and I just happened to have JS unblocked when I saw it before?)

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Hmm. Okay.

Yeah I'm no code savvy so let's hope they know more about it 😁

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[-] Chozo@lethallava.land 3 points 11 months ago

@ernest@kbin.social I think it's for the functionality used in this random comment I found.

https://lemmy.world/comment/4533835

[-] Eggyhead@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

There are microblogs on Kbin.

[-] Teppic@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

Indeed, and then there is a whole raft of searching, sorting and filtering options for Microblog posts (aka Toots) which kbin does, and which Lemmy can't even see.

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, didn't remember that, even though I've used them a little πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

Updated!

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Needs a line about tankies.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

More pleasing UI

Boosts

Seeing upvoters and downvoters

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah. The UI would be my key takeaway here. I just find Lemmy convoluted and confusing. Might be me just being too used to the old Reddit layout but I just like kbin more on that front.

[-] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Threads (a.k.a. posts on Lemmy) can be hashtagged on /kbin

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Added hashtags

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

I'm so happy that now I can edit the thread picture afterwards!

Needed to edit the picture many times! πŸ˜‚

[-] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Random/related toot and thread suggestions

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago
[-] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

"Random posts" and "Random threads" on sidebar. When you are in a particular thread/mag, this feature still serves randomised posts/threads but with related tags.

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Aaa!

Is it close/the same as this over Lemmy?

I only see this community-related thingie though - selecting a random post/thread doesn't give me any bar of random threads.

[-] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago
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[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

What do the colors mean?

Green: software has feature, red: software lacks feature?

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Affirmative!

[-] Pamasich@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If by "spoiler alert" you mean

spoiler
this

then it's supported now (ernest added it some days ago).

Win+. is a Windows functionality, yeah.

Some differences not yet mentioned are

  • boosts (mastodon's equivalent to twitter's retweets)
  • bookmarks / saving stuff (supported on lemmy, not yet on kbin)
  • votes on kbin are public, while they're hidden on lemmy
  • magazine/community css (supported on kbin, I think not supported on lemmy)

Does Lemmy mark new comments in posts? Since kbin just added that recently.

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[-] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Can’t boosts count as bookmarks?

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think it would depend on how you work with it.

If you use it only for bookmarking threads, then kinda yeah.
But if you just give thumbs up to stuff without ever returning later, then it would probably be difficult to find your bookmarks from between.

My personal opinion?
I'd rather keep them apart, cos I feel they are a different function and useful apart as well.

[-] minnieo@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

of all these beautiful features, gotta say the CSS styling on the mags is my FAAAAVVEEE. i love doing it. i kinda go overboard and need to reel it in, but the ability to personalize your mag is so fun. though, people should have an option to toggle mag styles off, they can be distracting or the best part about the mag lol (γ……Β΄ ˘ `)

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