• Perry@kbin.social
    26·
    2 years ago

    I really wanted something similar so I threw a quick and dirty tampermonkey script together to fetch the subscriptions from the settings page. I think it worked out pretty alright.

    Edit: Someone else can probably do something a lot better, but here is the code: https://pastebin.com/P0mR9QL6

    Paste it into a new script and call the addSubscriptionsSidePanel() function to run it.

    Edit2: I’ve uploaded it to Greasy Fork so that you can install it directly: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469139-kbin-subscriptions-panel

      • LennethAegis@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Thanks for sharing, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. Even with my other scripts turned off. Looking at your screenshot, is that Safari on IOS? Maybe an OS specific issue as I’m on Windows using Firefox. Not pressuring you to fix it, just letting you know it might not work on other platforms.

        • Perry@kbin.social
          2·
          2 years ago

          No worries, it’s my first published Tampermonkey script so there are probably a lot of quirks that should be ironed out.

          I’m using Chrome on MacOS. Which extension are you using? I’ve only tested this in Tampermonkey and I did read somewhere that Greasemonkey may have dropped support for the GM_addStyle() function which I’m using.

          If possible, it would really help if you could post any errors that you might be getting in the web inspector console.

  • Xathonn@kbin.social
    25·
    2 years ago

    I want the ability to customize the top bar with the magazines I want to be able to quickly access. It’s a feature that is in RES you can shortcut any subreddit to be on the top bar.

    • Vincent-Van-Vega@kbin.social
      7·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, I feel like Kbin is missing RES type of extension. Meanwhile, I found some good scripts on GreasyFork for Tampermonkey that scratch some missing features while browsing kbin.

        • tal@kbin.social
          2·
          2 years ago

          I think that that’s the vast bulk of the reason, but I could believe that there are things that maybe someone wants implemented that Ernest disagrees with and so they provide it as a client-side hack.

          But, yeah, probably would be preferable to just patch it in the Web UI. Or in some of the upcoming clients.

    • Skray@kbin.social
      4·
      2 years ago

      Yeah this is what I’m missing the most about Kbin is just being able to quickly browse to my favorite communities and magazines with a click.
      This mockup is a great utilization of the horizontal deadspace on the sides.

  • theinspectorst@kbin.social
    13·
    2 years ago

    A real problem I’ve had since I got here is that many of the communities I want to engage with are quite small, and so their posts get drowned out on my ‘subscribed’ page by posts from the bigger communities I’m subscribed to. I need a quick way to get to them so I can view their content, and at the moment getting to them is far too convoluted.

    • scyrp@kbin.social
      4·
      2 years ago

      You can change your homepage in settings to subscribed. So whenever you hit home it takes you to your subbed page. I keep on it All for now since so many magazines are empty but as the site fills out I will switch it to subbed.

      • theinspectorst@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        Unfortunately a) that doesn’t work for me on mobile, only desktop (seems like a few people have reported the same issue, it keeps reverting to all so I have to manually go to my subscribed page each time) and b) that doesn’t help anyway as I’m subscribed to a mix of big and small communities - so what I’m looking for is a way to go direct to one of the smaller communities (as I could on Reddit) because they get drowned out on my subscribed page.

    • NocturnalNebula@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      This I what I just don’t get! As a user of RES, the “new Reddit redesign” or whatever it was, was so heinous to me because of all the empty space on the left and right of the page. Even on Lemmy.world I kinda get the same feeling, UI wise, on desktop. Kbin isn’t as bad tho when it comes to wasted space

    • McBinary@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      This is very nice, thanks for this! I know it’s early stages yet, but I have about 6 different monkey scripts installed right now and they all add so much to the experience until they can be merged with core.

    • davetansley@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      This is amazing! It basically recreates my reddit browsing experience and makes the whole site so much easier to navigate!

      I can see references in the code to “sort alphabetically” (which would be very welcome!)… but I can’t see the button. Did that function not make it into this version of the script?

      Thanks again!

      • raltsm4k@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        Huh, are you running version 0.2 of the script? I pushed the sorting update not too long ago and I don’t currently have it configured to auto-update. If you are up to date, would you mind telling me your browser and which monkey extension you’re using?

        • McBinary@kbin.social
          2·
          2 years ago

          Excellent, thanks for the sorting option!

          Does this only list kbin magazines? I see a couple lemmy subscriptions there, but not nearly all of them.

          • davetansley@kbin.social
            2·
            2 years ago

            I think the problem is that the subscription page (that the script gets its items from) is paginated, and the script will only get the items on the first page.

            • McBinary@kbin.social
              2·
              2 years ago

              Ahh, ok, that makes sense. Thanks!

              The whole paginated thing needs to go away, platform wide.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    Ah, so I’m NOT stupid and there isn’t actually a convenient way to list your subscribed magazines on your front page. That seems like such a simple feature though.

    Edit: speaking of this, is there a way to easily see the context of a reply, like how on reddit you can just keep clicking on “context” or “parent comment” and keep going up in the nest? Right now I’m having to go back to the original thread and find my comment to see the comments around it. It’d be nice if they could stick that in the “more” menu.

    Unless I’m being stupid again and totally missing it.

  • mizzyc@kbin.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    That’s definitely what I need! And also would be perfect if the deafult view of the homepage had only posts from the magazines that I’m following, without having to go to specific page just for it.

  • Jcb2016@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    Looks to much like Reddit. Kbin is perfect. also can you imagine if they implemented this. What would the web app look like?

    e: I’ve only been on kbin for 2 days kinda like 1 . I have a lemmy and mastodon account and kbin is more reddit like to me. Haven’t been on mastodon all day

    • jinno@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Quicker access to magazines I’m subscribed to is like my only actual gripe about desktop at this point. Still rough on mobile because there’s no access to greasemonkey or stylesheet override tools.

        • Adama@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          Just that without the text and only an icon it would be hard to differentiate it.

          I mean, assuming it defaults to expanded at first, it’s not a big deal. Just something to consider from a usability perspective

      • Zorque@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Could do what Outlook/Teams does and abbreviate the name in a generic icon somehow. Or offer some sort of custom input, either put in your own personal icon or piece of text.

        • Adama@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          True but then you have a stack of icons that all look the same.

          No big deal when it’s expanded but when collapsed it makes it hard to visually identify what’s what.

          Fixes:
          Add a single letter based on the magazine like outlook does with contacts

          Have an alt title that shows when you hover (not as useful with phones but still)

          Default to expanded so you can collapse it but the default shows the icon and the associated label

  • ADHDefy@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    Yes please! This + multi-magazines (like multi-reddits) would complete this site for me. Well, that and 2FA.

  • thesoloist@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    This would be a great feature. It would be even better when we can aggregate different magazines into one category. For example combining all tech magazines from different instances into one technology page. Either manually or curated.