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I see a very small minority of people using Kbin, but I don't understand why.

Is this just a coincidence and did some people choose Kbin over Lemmy or is there a good reason to use Kbin?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I like the UI better, like that it interacts with things like Mastadon, and, what was honestly the biggest thing, doesn't have a dumb auto-refresh I can't disable (which Lemmy did (at least for a while)).

They both have a lot of growing up to do. Not being able to collapse threads in kbin is driving me crazy; especially for long threads with many nested levels, I can't tell what is even top-level.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy got rid of the auto refresh you’re referring to. No more live updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's good news. I'm fine with it as an optional setting, but I hated trying to read something and poof

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's two different PRs with collapsible threads in codeberg. Fingers crossed one or the other get merged soon.

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/167
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/704

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice! I knew about 167 but not 704. Here's hoping!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Look up kbin enhancement suit KES. They have android, iOS and Mac that I know of. Simple to add and they’re implementing a lot of features

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This. Is. AWESOME! So many so cool features!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hate that I have to rely on some other add-in, but this makes things so much easier. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The auto refresh was what brought me here. The layout kept me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are several userscripts for collapsible threads, I've used them since like day 2 after the Reddit shutdown!

I use this one: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468923-kbin-improved-collapsible-comments

Works both on desktop and Android (Firefox + Tampermonkey).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This. Is. AWESOME! So many so cool features!