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/kbin update - upvotes, boosts, languages... (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone, You may have noticed a small change on the website. From now on, upvotes work just like on Lemmy - they are equivalent to Mastodon's "favourite." You can boost a post using the button that replaced "favourite." Another change is that you can now rate and boost your own posts. Boosting has a one-time effect - it elevates the post to the top of the "Active" list, adds points used for the "Hot" section, and appears as a boost on other instances.

A language selection dropdown has been added to the footer - thank you all for that!

It seems that the Docker update has also brought significant improvements.

Now, I want to focus on bringing the instance creation instructions to a satisfactory state.

I promise to get back to your questions and comments as soon as possible - there have been quite a few of them. But for now, I need to keep an eye on the queue charts to make sure I don't stumble and accidentally cause problems for other instances ;)

Oh, and here's some good news: my application for Fast Forward has been accepted, and I'll do my best to make it truly thrilling here soon ;p

Meanwhile, I'll be away for a bit, but I'm constantly monitoring reports, the matrix, email, and mentions.

Have a great day!

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

Hi, I saw the language selector and I wonder how that works, because I don't see anywhere where you can filter by language.
Are there any plans to allow filtering content by language like others (e.g., Mastodon) do? That would be really useful so I can choose to see content only in languages I understand. Or does something like that already exist but I haven't found it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, language filtering should be implemented soon. It's quite important considering the scale of federation we have.

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

I have tried few alternatives to reddit and found kbin ui smoothest.

There are however few issues, thankfully very minor, like having to scroll to the end of the main post to comment and scrolling up a comment to up/downvote.

Is there any possibility of fixing them like adding the reply button at the end of the main post body and moving the up and down vote buttons to the bottom beside the boost button? Thanks!

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

This is amazing and right in line with how I expect the boost/upvote/downvote system to work. Thank you so much, I’ll be mindful to continue boosting the best comments and threads so people keep finding /kbin!

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

Please could you explain this in terms that don't reference other Fediverse systems? I don't use Lemmy or Mastodon so I'm not really sure what this means.

(Edit: ignore this point, I've just discovered that "Active" is a sort category, like "Hot", "Newest", etc.) ~~For example what is the "Active" list? I'm guessing the list of posts that are shown on the front page? or do you mean it will push my profile to the start of the "Active People" section on the right-hand sidebar?~~

And if I understand correctly, the "boosts" section on my profile is viewable to everyone? Also, is there a way to unboost posts? It seems that when I click the boost button again the number of boosts goes down, but the post is not removed from my profile.
For upvotes, these only change the number that is shown on the post itself? So people will not be able to see the list of posts that I have upvoted?