the8thbit

joined 2 years ago
 

I love the idea of kbin, but I've found the UX could be improved. Honestly, I like it better than new reddit already, but I find it doesn't quite feel as nice as old.reddit.com to me.

This motivated me to throw together a stylus theme to give kbin a little more of an old.reddit feel. I got rid of a lot of the whitespace which pads out the site, and made some other tweaks I think make it look better. I've also replaced both the upvoted and downvoted colors with ones that are a little easier to read regardless of which color theme you're using.

This stylesheet should be compatible with any kbin UX configuration. Its been tested with every theme, compact mode, thumbnails, all 3 font sizes, and all of the other kbin user options. It shouldn't interfere with the mobile view either, however, all of the changes, other than the vote colors, are turned off since kbin's vanilla mobile view is pretty solid. (at least, imo)

I also tried to keep this accessible, using rem for most sizing, so if you configure your browser to have a custom font size, this SHOULD play nicely.

This is a WIP, so if you notice that anything is broken or ugly, please don't hesitate to let me know.

If there's any interest in integrating any of these styles into kbin proper let me know. I'd love to help kbin look beautiful out of the box, and I'd happily put in a PR, but I figured starting with a stylus theme would be safer since I'm not sure if the admins or community have an interest in these changes yet. Obviously if I did put in a PR I'd rewrite a lot of this to take better advantage of custom properties and integrate these styles into the kbin stylesheets less awkwardly.

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I'm using the mobile web version of kbin for the first time right now and it's pretty dang solid... I honestly might like it better than the desktop web interface. I spent this morning writing a stylus script to get something closer to old.reddit. (less whitespace, mostly, but a few other changes too)

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah! I don't know how the new interface handles it, or how phone apps handle it, but on old.reddit I still see my list of multireddits on the left side of my main feed when I'm logged in.

I was kind of envisioning multimagazines and hubs as being two different things, where hubs would be created and joined by magazine mods, and then users would subscribe to hubs by default, where multimagazines would be user created and specific to that user, but one system could maybe do both...

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That makes sense, but why isn't kbin defederated then? I didn't need to do anything other than supply an email when signing up for kbin.

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Would be pretty cool if magazines/communities could form hubs around their subject. You could subscribe to the hub, and remove/add communities in the hub from other instances. And the community on your instance would control what instances are included by default in your hub sub.

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Is kbin a good place to set up shop? I don't really understand the advantages/disadvantages of different instances. I made an account on lemmy.world first, but I remade my account on kbin a few hours later because I like the kbin interface a little more.

Also, if there's no karma, what are the "reputation points" in my profile?

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Is there an easy way to shift an account between instances? Or do you need to start from scratch with a new account on each instance?

[–] the8thbit@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

on top of that, beehaw has recently defederated with two of the biggest instances, lemmy.world and shitjustworks, meaning that moderation will probably be able to keep up more again

Why did beehaw defederate from these two instances in particular?