The biggest problem with kbin is honestly quite simple, but I don’t people is talking about is the fact that finding the magazines that I’m subscribed to is in Settings > Subscribed, on Reddit, it’s literally in the top bar, I don’t get why it’s buried in settings. Another thing is why is my home page full of posts from magazines that I’m not subscribed to and mostly not intrested in? I know I can do /sub to access the magazines feed, but why is hidden and why isn’t it just the default?

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    I have my eye on it, I’ve seen that related pull requests have also been submitted. It will be improved in some way soon.

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    If you go into settings you can set /sub to be your default. in the top right if you check the list icon you can see the subscribed/all options.

    kbin just has weird defaults apparently.

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      It makes sense to do it that way otherwise everyone would see an empty page when they first signed up.

      At least this way you can use the home page for discovery initially and once that gets too noisy use /sub as your homepage.

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        It only makes sense until the user has subscribed to anything. Once there’s one or more subscriptions, nothing else should appear on the homepage.

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        makes sense. another weird default is putting the comment box for a thread at the bottom of the thread, rather than the top lol. but a userstyle sheet fixes that. also notifications are turned off by default which is also weird.

        lots of unfamiliar defaults lol.

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          I think that’s half based on forum layouts, and half to encourage you to read (and engage with) the conversation before throwing out an idea that might be the same as others’.

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            yup, entirely understandable. but once threads start getting very long you often never end up scrolling to the bottom.

            again, there’s obviously reasons to the decisions, it’s just unfamiliar to use ex-reddit folk.

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            They are basically the same reason. Forums put the comment box at the bottom so people at least glance through the page before commenting, in hopes of reducing duplicate comments.

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          Where might I find and apply such a stylesheet, and is there also one for making threads collapsible?

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              I went to click that link to kbinStyles and it didn’t seem to work, but did bring up other UI issues:

              When I search for it, it doesn’t show up unless I first select magazines. Search should be global, unless your first pick a category to narrow your results.

              Then there’s the case sensitivity issue mentioned elsewhere.

              Finally, on a phone the subscribe button is off-screen. You have to swipe over to see it. So for a hot minute it seemed like there was no method to subscribe.

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    Agreed. My bigger issue is with the logic for compiling listings. If you are subscribed to a magazine that is much more active than the others, the big magazine completely dominates and you never see anything else. That’s a tricky sort of algorithm to fine-tune, but in the meantime I may have to unsubscribe from this meta mag if I ever want to see any other content on my front page.

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    My biggest problem is that there is no way to go straight to the link from the list - you have to go into the post first.

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      Yeah same here. This feels like a somewhat key usability feature. I’ll see if there’s a way I can pass this feature suggestion onto the developer.

      Update: Probably best to add feature requests to the kbin repo.

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      If there’s one basic feature that I liked about Reddit is that if I clicked on a post it would automatically open the post in a new tab. Not the biggest fan of having to make sure I manually open the post in another tab unless I want to risk losing my place in the post feed.

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        It’s not a case of not finding it, it’s that clicking a link in the feed opens up the comments page rather than the link.

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    Agreed. A lot of QoL features still need to be added. I want a sidebar with my subscribed magazines for easy access. Also the fact that I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the comments section to post in a thread is annoying.

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    My biggest issue is that the UI is way to information sparse. Its similar to “new reddit” but “old reddit” was a much better design in that it was information dense and easy to scan multiple posts without scrolling.

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    I wish there was a way to do the reverse: show all magazines except for those I explicitly unsubscribe from. Otherwise I will miss out on a lot of new magazines as they are made that I could be interested in.

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      Would blocking a magazine accomplish what you’re aiming to do? It should be the “🚫” sign next to the “subscribe” button. Then when you’re browsing all, the blocked magazine (hopefully) won’t show up

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        Having a whitelist and a blacklist seems like it would be really smart for federation. You could chain hashtags and specific users into it too. Once Lemmy and others start showing up managing content is going to be critical.