Dear not-so-techy KBeans ;)

While @ernest and the other instance admins are working on infrastructure, let’s work together to improve the getting-started experience of users new to Kbin.

Share any graphics, FAQs, guides, or other valuable resources you’ve discovered (don’t forget to give credit!) or created by posting them in this thread. Remember, not everyone’s perfect, so if something in a resource isn’t exactly correct, just point that out in your comment! A little clarification goes a long way.

These can later be congregated into a dedicated magazine for new users to reference (was thinking /m/GettingStarted? Lmk).

I’ll start it off:

EDIT: @gettingstarted (mobile link) is up! Continue to use this thread for questions and content. Our goal is creating structured guides for users to follow over at @gettingstarted, but we need content to do that.

E: First, very sloppy intro guide is up here.

  • sourworm@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Also, on a pure tecnical standpoint, the “federation” aspect is currently simply not true: I get “The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.” warning message when I try to access most magazines that are not hosted on kbin.social.

    Aside from the currently known issues with the kbin.social server messing federation up for it, my understanding of that message is that it is indeed how the federation between instances works for all magazines/communites/etc. A magazine from another instance doesn’t exist here until the first person from here searches for it, at which point just the latest 20 (?) threads are pulled in initially. Once the first person from here subscribes to that magazine then all new threads, comments, etc from that point forward will be pushed here automatically as well. So older threads may not show up hence the message about it being incomplete.