I tried looking around for a changelog but I couldn’t find one anywhere (let me know if you know where it is, I know you can look at the commits/merged PRs on Codeberg but there’s a lot to dig through).
Here’s some of the changes I’ve noticed:
- Profile picture next to username in top right
- Comments can now be sorted by “top”
- Larger image preview when uploading an image
- Magazine stats are now localized (yay!!!)
- kbin logo instead of stormtrooper in the “Create your own instance” box
- Vote colors are brighter on dark mode
- New theme: Tokyo Night
This is just what I’ve seen after using the site for a bit after the update, let me know if there’s anything I’ve missed!
Edit: I just noticed that you can filter posts by language now, that’s huge!
Soon I will try to craft a post about whom exactly we owe these changes to. Today there’s already too much excitement for one evening ;)
spoiler: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/activity
For the next few hours, the website may be slow. We are working on a fix.
Nice, I’m the second person after Ernest on this activity chart, since June 28.
This code is just a small fraction of what you generally do, man ;)
Loving the new update @ernest!
Thanks for the updates Ernest, just fyi I had to delete the pwa I had for kbin and reinstall it to get the updates. Maybe have to adjust something in your manifest to auto update? I’ll take a look at code later. Really happy so far tho, the screen lock is a life saver!!
The manifest is a pain. Apparently even updating the
theme_color
should be enough to force chrome to download a new version and update the local client, but that can take anywhere from a few hours to a day or so 😰I’ve found deleting it and reinstalling thankfully works and now shows the fancy icon on Android
The iOS PWA logs out whenever I lock my screen. Is that something that will be fixed? I love kbin ty for all the work you do!
I haven’t seen that report before, if it’s happening consistently with you can you add it as an issue on https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues
We adjusted the manifest to add in the updated logos and shortcuts and it’s working correctly on Android.
Good to make a report in case there’s some underlying issue
Hmm. Interestingly, I just tried it again and it seems the issue may have fixed itself (probably affected by the other changes). If it does start again I’ll make a report. Thanks!
Things I’m particularly proud of include the new language filtering setting, the lnf changes (compact mode on a tablet feels niiice) and the markdown improvements - hopefully everyones community links will work now!
Increasing the size of the text in the settings no longer causes posts to leak off into inaccessible areas of the page in the iOS web app. As an iPhone Mini user, I particularly appreciate this change. I can finally increase the text size to a more comfortable reading level.
Hitting the kbin logo takes you back to your feed, instead of having to click it and then go over and click the Home button. That’s a huge plus, IMO.
Android rotation lock bug resolved, nice, very nice. Great work to all involved.
OH, no wonder this took a while. Those are great! I love this new theme.
I absolutely love the new Tokyo Night theme.
Also, good on Ernest for getting ahead of the legal curve! #IWasHereWhenItWasStillAStormtrooper
I think html now may work in our profiles. I have a referral link to my mastodon account in my profile and it’s always just shown up as the text, now after the update the code actually is recognize and showing up as a link (albeit, broken lol).
Edit: Fixed, def works at least for embedding a link.
Edit 2: Full on html, got a marquee tag working too lolu sure u don’t did a oopsie?
(href=““https://mstdn.ca/[@GeekFTW](https://kbin.social/u/GeekFTW)””) 2x -> " <- ?
or did /kbin did you dirty? 😭edit: ok… i’m sorry! it’s /kbin 😌
edit2: it now works <3
This was a wonderful update! But I seem to have come across a bug while browsing kbin as a PWA using Firefox on Android. The button for expanding posts seem to be overlayed by the boost button. Whenever I click to expand, the post is getting boosted instead.
EDIT: The issue is with the ‘kbin usability pack’ userscript and not kbin itself. My bad. Sorry for the unnecessary ping Ernest.
For me the on iOS, the top banner works now. Before I would have to fiddle rotation until I got the hamburger menu and navigate from there.
I’m on Firefox mobile (Android) and the ui is now in Polish? How do I change it back to English
Edit: nwm I found how to change it, at the very bottom of any page
Tokyo Night is awesome on dark reader mode. Nice work devs. 😀👍
Hm… My avatar photo is gone, and showing as a broken image. I tried to upload it gain, but it doesn’t seem to have taken.
same for me, seems the migration is not complete or a server is down…
OR some images have no longer found their way home~My guess is Fastly cache issues.
well i don’t completely know what u mean.
if i opened images in a new tab it was a error 404, the image could not be found (browser dev tools also said so), so idk if it had something to do with the cache (but cache was also one of my 1st thoughts)~but i also could be wrong :D
It’s not a cache issue at your side. It was a configuration issue at kbin.social with Fastly image cache. Causing those 404’s. It’s now been resolved.
Looks like the kbin PWA on my phone is now following my default setting for homepage of subscribed instead of all when opening it. I like this change.
Still overrides my locked rotation, though. Oh well 😅
Really looking forward to seeing what all’s changed and I d’awww-ed at my little new icon. I was kinda thinking the work would last for several more hours, so I’m very happy to see it back already
Edit: Important update for anyone on mobile, the kbin logo now takes me to Home! The hamburger menu has an acceptable hitbox again!
Am I the only one having the whole kbin.social site in polish?
You’re not haha - I have no idea what I’m doing here. Doesn’t get more bleeding edges than everything suddenly changing to polish.
if you go to the bottom of the page you can change it to different language. mine was in polish too
That was just some UI polish work, it’s ok