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What features you may be missing from reddit would you like to see? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What the title says. I think the site needs to reach critical mass sooner rather than later, and on top of the relatively low activity for now, we want to avoid obstacles to new migration, even if it's small convenience stuff. So, what would make your life easier as a kbin user?

Personally, I know I use the save button a lot for important resources and future reference. Even twitter has bookmarks! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's anywhere to be found. It's also my feeling that a lot of people would prefer the boost feature to be an effect of upvoting instead of a separate button. It makes sense as a kind of "retweet" thing for microblogging, but on the threads side, it doesn't really work with the magazine-centered instead of user-centered feed.

(not sure this is the right place for this discussion, but this is currently the largest mag about kbin itself, above kbin and kbinmeta)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Upvotes on kbin also function as favorites. So everything you've upvoted is now logged in your favorite tab - essentially a bookmark.

Is that what you mean?

I personally would love it if the OP of a thread was highlighted in the comment section. Small QoL but it drives me crazy not being able to quickly differentiate who OP is in the comment chain.

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

I don't think that's really granular enough, though. I guess it would be fine right now with the amount of content we're getting, but on reddit, I lose count on the number of posts I upvote and mostly just forget about on a daily basis, so long term it wouldn't work out, I think.

Also, it's a specific social signal that you think the post is good and so others may want to look at it. I do think it's really interesting how there are separate upvote and downvote counts showing controversiality intsead of a tally which may hide interesting dynamics.