/kbin meta

There are at least five apps that I know of currently in development for iOS. Unfortunately neither Memmy nor Mlem able to connect to kbin at the moment, something to do with the kbin-specific API from what @ernest, @BrooklynMan, and @gkd have said. Kmoon is specifically being developed for kbin and is multi-platform for iOS and Android (no TestFlight betas on that just yet):

Artemis (Kmoon): https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp
Memmy: https://kbin.social/m/memmy@lemmy.ml
Mlem: https://kbin.social/m/mlemapp@lemmy.ml
Morpha: https://kbin.social/m/morpha@vlemmy.net
Thunder: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.hjiangsu.thunder
Lemur: https://kbin.social/m/programming@beehaw.org/t/58630/I-am-working-on-a-new-lemmy-app-for-iOS

P.S. I don't use Android but have seen Jerboa mentioned quite often: https://kbin.social/m/jerboa@lemmy.ml

https://lemmy.wtf/c/guildwars2

It doesn't come up in a search and I get a 404 if I try using: https://kbin.social/m/guildwars2@lemmy.wtf

I made a resource for #Lemmy #kbin (and #Tildes) information. It's very early, but hopefully will help some people out. Includes new apps being developed for the various platforms, as well as some discoverability sites.

https://github.com/Zak8022/Awesome-Rexxit-Resources

Feedback welcome, this is the first time I’ve done something like this.

It's still tiny numbers in the scheme of things, but also quite a big number for a site that had ~30 users this time last month.

Kbin stats https://kbin.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Lemmy + Kbin https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

Raw https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0

So it can digg and bury reddit once and for all

Does anyone else have this issue where the post title and UI flickers when you mouse-over the post? It also happens to me on comments within a post. Any idea on how to fix this? There doesn't seem to be anything related to animation in the kbin.social web UI settings.

I enabled the top bar, but now it's a random set of mags instead of the ones I'm subscribed to. Is there a way to do this?

is it possible to mute instances or communities as opposed to straight up blocking them? making sure they dont show up on your /all/ page but not removing the ability to view any and all new content when its linked via different community

also, is it possible to move the community/magazine description to the top of the page rather than the bottom, as infinite scrolling makes it a bit tedious to unsubscribe or subscribe to communities

There is a substantial amount of spam and NSFW posts on the All page coming through already. Most NSFW posts aren't being tagged as such and are coming right through. I am not sure how this can be weathered but we need something in place fairly soon, I feel like we are days away from rivers of bad stuff, especially via some of the federated instances.

EDIT: I personally don't care much about the NSFW aspect, more in the lines of what a newcomer will be seeing when they get to the main page. 99% of the newcomers don't know / care about federation and have no idea how to turn that off. Liability for the server owner is also an element of consideration.

Is there an option to move the magazine description to the top of the page, so i finite scrolling doesnt continuously push the unsubscribe or subscribe buttons further and further down? if not, could this be implemented as an option?

#kbinMeta

If I go to https://kbin.social/magazines/ it shows the "hot" tab by default, and they're all pretty busy with lots of comments, threads, microblogs and subscribers. I go to /newest and yeah they're almost all empty, I'd expect that. But under /hot they're also almost all empty or nigh-on empty, which seems to be exact opposite of hot... unless it means they're radioactive and no-one wants to go there!

Is this something I'm doing wrong, something the site currently has malformed, or something else?

Has anyone come up with custom CSS code to make spoilers yet? I suck at CSS, so I doubt i could do it.

With the search being partially broken ATM, it's a bit annoying to open another community (https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted) in kbin (https://kbin.social/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world)

There's an extension for firefox that transforms links found in comments, but it doesn't work if you've already got the community open in its original site.

I've just put together a quick and dirty js bookmarklet for this (mostly for myself, but I figured I'd post it in case anyone else finds it useful).
You basically save this code as a bookmark, and just click it when you're in a community on another site to be taken to that communiy on kbin:

javascript:(function()%7Blet%20reg%20%3D%20window.location.href.match(%2Fhttps%3F%3A%5C%2F%5C%2F(.*)%5C%2F%5Bcm%5D%5C%2F(%5Ba-zA-Z%5D%2B)%5C%2F%3F.*%2F)%3B%0Awindow.location.href%20%3D%20%60https%3A%2F%2Fkbin.social%2Fm%2F%24%7Breg%5B2%5D%7D%40%24%7Breg%5B1%5D%7D%60%3B%7D)()%3B

The original, unminified code is just

let reg = window.location.href.match(/https?:\/\/(.*)\/[cm]\/([a-zA-Z]+)\/?.*/);
window.location.href = `https://kbin.social/m/${reg[2]}@${reg[1]}`;

Unfortunately it doesn't work for threads (seems like they're a bit more complex than a quick find and replace), you need to be on the frontpage of the community

Because you will not see anything from there. /kbin will tell you, that the magazine is empty and point you to originating instance. It won't tell you, that you turned showing that comment off...

Didn't have this problem the past days, but today I got notifications from people replying to my comments. I click on them, and it navigates me to the article's page, but I cannot see the replies to my comments.
Just as to make sure they are not deleted I navigated to those user's profile and saw that the comments indeed exist, but are not displayed correctly on the article.
Happened with a reply from someone on lemmy and someone from kbin.
Anyone else experiencing this?

LE: seems to only happen in Tree view of the comments, don't know if this is a new feature or not. Classic and Chat views work fine.

One of the simple features of Reddit (and Digg before it) was that upvoted comments would float to the most visible part of the comments section and downvoted comments would end up buried where no one would see them.

That not only made the comment section a much more useful/interesting/pleasant place to be (with all the caveats about the hive mind etc), it also incentivised people to make good comments.

Here on kbin, we only have the following sort options:

• Hot
• Active
• Newest
• Oldest

Three of which basically just sort by New. I guess 'Active' is the closest to 'Best' or 'Top', but it's not the default.

To get kbin to that point where its growth really snowballs into the definitive reddit alternative, I think comments should not only have the 'Top' and 'Best' sorting options, but one of them should be default as well.

Can anyone tell me what a badge is?
Does it work like a post flair on Reddit? 🤔

#kbinMeta

I get notifications that someone has replied to a comment I've made - but when I click on the notification - it jumps me to the discussion, but I can find neither my comment or the reply.

It seems very silly that me downvoting something makes it show up on my profile page under "boosts", makes it look like I liked the post and boosted it when in reality I downvoted it.

Feels weird that what I vote on is public at all.

I mean, we have the chance to create the new Mickey Mouse. I'd think people would be going nuts with idea ha ha ha!

For 1h my instance is hammered at 100% CPU. I just upscaled, but that didn't change anything. I now have a hetzner server with 4 cores and 4 processes for each of the messenger commands. I figured they just have to process a long queue so that makes sense, but only if the queue has an end...
The only thing I found to debug what the messengers are doing is this: php bin/console messenger:stats
which yields the same result each time I run it:

----------- -------
 Transport   Count
----------- -------
 async       100
 async_ap    100
 failed      2152
----------- -------

! [NOTE] Unable to get message count for the following transports: "sync".

Is there a better way to debug kbin messengers?

TL;DR - See title

For those unfamiliar, multireddits were* a way of viewing posts from multiple subreddits on a single page. So you could, for instance, view posts of both r/linux AND r/linuxmasterrace by using r/linux+linuxmasterrace - you could even append /new to have the posts sorted by new, just like when you visited a single sub.

* past-tense bc reddit is dead to me.

So does kbin have something like this? I tried https://kbin.social/m/linux+linuxmasterrace+linuxquestions/newest - with and without /newest - but it just gives me a 404 page. I'm assuming it either uses a different syntax or else simple doesn't have this feature yet... but really hoping this is something that could be added to the TODO list.

Hello, is it possible to grab the public RSS feed of any of the other feeds that aren't just newest posts?

kbin.social/rss seems to only have them sorted by newest.

I want to pull them into newsboat but I don't care much for the newest posts only showing up and since it's RSS I want to at a glance see the Top or Hot for the week (don't care really even if I'm able to see my own personal feeds).

I was waiting for Kbin to have a PWA I can install as a mobile app, so really appreciate the latest update!

I'm a little unclear on the purpose of this. I see some folks using it and other's not using it for similar content.

Is it something that can show up in other instances like on Lemmy too?

I added it to this post, but didn't use it on previous posts as I wasn't sure about it.