I cannot put into words how profoundly stupid this “feature” is. AOL and Geocities pages were genuinely more user friendly. Whoever added it, refreshed the page and said “yeah, this works well” and left it in should be fired! …out of a cannon and into the Sun!
I like how kbin functions, but now how it looks. Lemmy instances seem more minimal in their design.
I read somewhere that kbin supports themes, so you may be able to address your design issues that way.
I don’t like the way either of them look, to be honest. kbin not refreshing the feed while I am reading it is the sole factor for me.