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Just a quick and dirty userscript to add some features I feel are super important. I'll probably look into creating some real PRs, but I figure the devs are probably in "put out fires" mode right now.

EDIT:
Added a few more features and cleaned up the expand / collapse UI. All features are toggleable in the kbin sidebar.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have made this same script for beehaw / lemmy (by same, i mean adding community name after username only)

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468708-beehaw-lemmy-add-home-instance-name-to-username

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

This is a big QoL thing, and I appreciate you putting it together. Hoping to see it become standard functionality on Kbin in the future.

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

I agree! Please make this happen, powers that be that have the knowledge to do this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can you make this two scripts with separate functions? I currently use https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468460-kbin-collapsible-comments and like the clickable comment header.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for this. Is it possible to change the color of the home instance to be more noticeable? Also I think the "@" is being dropped from the replace.

I assume its would need to be in this line, but it's been 20 years since I coded anything and have no idea what script language this is.

var homeinstance2 = homeinstance.replace( "/u/@" + myname + "@" , '');

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

Hey - with the dark and light mode - I'll take a while to change the colour - for now I've made it in italics, so if anything - a 2nd script can change the colour of the community name

it's showing

name - community

not breaking up the users URL / address with a dach

name - @community

it's possible to make it

name@community - but that's less readable

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

Thanks a ton for doing that. I appreciate it. I'm just having difficulty noticing when I'm replying to people on other platforms, so some assumed knowledge gets left out when not knowing who I'm speaking to.

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

I'll add two red colour styles tomorrow which changes brightness based on dark mode or not

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

The script adds toggles for both features under the settings area so you can just toggle off comment collapsing if you already have a script that does that.

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

oooh.. its an icon to the left of search.. i was looking underneath per the screenshot lol

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

You can turn on and off features in the kbin settings sidebar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@SirPsychoMantis I found a bug. It seems to not show the url while looking at microblog posts. only in threads.

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

It should show it, however it won't show if the user / magazine is on your instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can we get a screenshot of how it looks? Also I love the amount of effort everyone is putting towards this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@SirPsychoMantis its very clean. want to post this at m/kbinStyles so we can aggregate them?

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

Is there any way to cross post? Or should I just make a new one?

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

lol sounds like another https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues issue

you could just link to your post here

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

Looks pretty good overall. Hopefully we get some style updates too soon, because there's a heap of vertical space used in the current designs that could be optimized.

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

Updated screenshot of the UI

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

I note that on Lemmy, no image is visible on this post.

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

Ah interesting, I uploaded it directly rather than posting a link

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot for the work !

There is a bug where if you click on the instance/community, then reload kbin, it will add another instance name in the name. For example : [email protected]@[email protected]
And this infinitely.

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

Fixed, will be pushing out an update soon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there any script that keep the top level comment visible and only collapse the replies beneath? So far they seem to work all in the same way.

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

@DarkThoughts I added a feature to "toggle replies" to the top level comments

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

Is it possible to also have a collapse / expand all toggle for the entire comment section? Sort of like the Relay mobile client for Reddit.

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

Never used Relay, do you want to just hide the entire comment section, or just make every individual comment collapsed into just "Name [+]"?

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

It's a shame that these scripts don't work fit Firefox mobile. That's where I do most of my... Well I was gonna say redditing. Kbining? 😁

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

I installed Tampermonkey on Firefox mobile (Android) and the script works great, minus one bug for long usernames that I'll try to fix shortly.

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

Really? Well now I need to check again, thanks for the heads up

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

I made a version that makes the instance name normal weight instead of bold. Think it looks better that way.

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

Saw you post this last night but couldn't get around to testing it until today. Works great! I needed the collapse function, but showing the source domain is a great bonus and adds clarity to kbin.

[–] False 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it possible to use this on mobile Firefox? Not sure if userscripts work there or not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, Tampermonkey is available on Firefox mobile

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

Yeeeeaaaah boi! I just installed this and it's awesome! Thank you thank you thank you :-)

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

oh this is fantastic. thank you so much :) very useful to see where people are posting from.

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

Really happy with the script so far, do you take feature requests maybe? I think it'd be an easy thing to add - an option to hide "random posts" and "random threads" section from the sidebar. I keep getting porn shown there despite blocking communities, either I didn't get all of them or the block gets ignored in the random search. It doesn't even get blurred. For now I hid it with uBlock but I'm sure other people would appreciate it as a setting too.

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

Very cool. Is there a GitHub link? I'd love to contribute.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just a quick script for now, I will probably focus on contributing to the actual codebase in the coming weeks.

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

Very cool and very needed!

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

Hey i just made a very rough one too, maybe I should have been looking for yours first, I've added expanding thumbnails to mine so feel free to intergrate that to yours.

pastebin link

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