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Appreciate all your work and I am enjoying kbin but please make sure you are not burning yourself out. I have seen it too many times, especially in open source projects that become super popular all of a sudden. Take care of your mental health and work at a pace that you still enjoy. You don't ow us anything.
Have a great Sunday!
There's quite a few of us now helping out with tickets. Great to see lots of people coming together to make the site better. Good to get lots of bugs squashed :)
Love it! But that is or can be part of the "problem". Suddenly it's not "I am working on the software I like" anymore but "managing merge requests all day". Not saying that's what's happening here tho. It can be a problem.
@Mnmalst Yeah, I am well aware of what you're talking about, and I am trying to maintain a balance. I knew that it could look like this at a certain stage, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly ;) I assumed I would have a bit more time to prepare and acquire knowledge. Now I have to improvise. I make mistakes, but I try to fix them and always keep an eye on the big picture. That's all I can do. Working with pull requests is great, I enjoy learning new things from others, and it's also fun to discover bugs together. At least for now. ;-) But I always emphasize that my priorities are my milestones, which keep me afloat, so I care about organizing our collaboration as quickly and effectively as possible. However, we also need to get to know each other a little better.
I think it's important to not have a single person having to deal with those. But admittedly it's hard to get to that point. I've only significantly done established, commercial software dev, where you can just trust your coworkers. Random people on the internet are harder to trust. Anyone can play nice for a couple of days for a chance to slip in something malicious.
The project is not only rather new (so any contributors are gonna be new), but it's also hosted on an unfamiliar site (which is to say, it's not GitHub), so most people don't have an account with history either.
Nice!
The PWA rotation issue is really annoying, happy to see this will be fixed. :)
Definitely a big annoyance point for me!
Is this about the PWA rotating when auto rotation is set to off? Sounds like a bug on the device, as it's not happening to me.
That might be android only, I'm not sure. I remember seeing a pull request about it having to do with something in the PWA manifest.
I'm on Android 13 with Firefox, and haven't noticed the issue. Tried specifically to disable the autorotation, rotate the phone while kbin was running - and nothing (it does rotate when autorotation is on). I installed the PWA about a week ago.
@mr47 This issue is browser engine specific rather than device specific, and (annoyingly) falls within valid interpretation of the web manifest standards so it's not really a bug for the browser engines either. The fix is also within the standards, so that's good.
I see. I guess Firefox works correctly.
Oh thank god, I thought it was a "feature" and here to stay.
I'm really looking forward to https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/167 . Maybe I'm just old or something, but the indent is quite slight sometimes and hard for me to see what belongs at which level at certain levels of nesting.
I wish I could contribute, but I've hardly touched anything UI-related in a decade, and likewise haven't worked with newer PHP at all.
I'm super super keen on that one. It's actually the reason I got kbin running locally, so I could implement a quick toggle open/close for deeply nested comments.
Been following that thread and hope it gets out soon, it's something I severely miss from Reddit mobile.
Yes! Collapsible comments is my most painful missing feature.
Will the test instances be publicly available?
That would be greatly appreciated by us over at /m/kbinStyles so that it’s possible to see that everything still works before the new version goes live.
Obviously not exactly high priority, but I thought it was worth asking anyway.
Sure thing, I will manually approve accounts from time to time. These scripts are mind blowing ;)
Was lab1 destroyed by a zombie outbreak?
Some of the userscripts could, longer-term, be converted into server-side Web UI features; I think that that'd make them available to a wider audience, since they become available to all browsers without user effort then. However, for any that don't, I also imagine that it'd also be possible to set up some sort of automated regression testing using Selenium or something like that that warns if it looks like they aren't working in a new version. That'd take load off human userscript maintainers if the userscripts are going to be around for the long haul, and it'd give a heads-up earlier, potentially as soon as the breaking commit goes into git.
Thanks for all the work you're doing!
This thread gave me a thought that we need a good place to discuss new features and bugs of existing features. I know we have kbinMeta but that is more like discussion of the overall site and the “meta” of things.
Anyways, @kbinfeaturerequests is the place I made for us to discuss feature ideas, pull requests in the pipelines, and pretty much anything in that realm.
Thank you for all your continued hard work, Ernest! I can't imagine the amount of work you have put in as a server admin, as a developer, as front line support, etc.
For those people reading, if you have the means you can buy Ernest a coffee to thank and support him and his efforts.
@ernest just want to thank you for all of the hard work you've done and are doing. Kbin is something really special and you've been going above and beyond with it.
Please don't make me scroll the whole thread with comments just to reach the comment input. Super discouraging
Yep, this one has been brought up a few times and it looks like it's under discussion (the idea of it being at the end is to encourage everyone to read first etc)
While that's a good philosophy overall, a thread like this is a perfect example of why we should have one at the top also, you just want to post a quick comment saying thanks for the work and move on, having to scroll heaps far especially on mobile is rough
+1 this needs to be fixed
Jumping on this to mention two things:
Firstly, thanks to all that are helping develop this. Once I got our instance up and running i was impressed with the whole thing. Potentially related: I have more gray hairs now. Let's just say I'm glad to see that work is being done to simplify the docker setup and improve the admin documentation.
Secondly, one behaviour I've noticed is when searching for a new magazine/community, one of the instance admins is listed as owner and moderator and is automatically subscribed to this new (to our instance) magazine/community, and the created date is listed as when we first searched for it.
Is this a bug (known or otherwise) or expected behaviour? Just seems a bit odd...
Somewhat off topic but does kbin currently have a working API? Every instance I've attempted an API call on just errors out. Same thing when running a local test instance.
Would also likely be a good idea to distribute an OpenAPI spec so people can automatically generate API clients in the future.
Thanks for making such a great platform by the way. Genuinely impressed what a solo dev is able to build with activitypub.
sounds nice but what about better moderation tools
Some fixes are awaiting review, while the rest is still on my local branch. On Monday morning, the changes will be pushed to testing.
mod tools are core part of the kbin experience, so it should be important for the core devs,
Thanks for the great work on this @ernest, and every contributor who's dove in and made a PR.
You are writing from your instance, so it's @[email protected]. In the future, there will probably be some sort of suggestion when mentioning people, similar to Mastodon.
That'll be slick!
Cool stuff, thanks all for the hard work it's appreciated!
Cheers for the ongoing support mate. I've been pretty keen on contributing and getting some of the UI/UX polished up, keen to see these all hit prod so everyone can benefit ❤️
Love to make the experience on mobile good enough that if you want you won't even need a third party app.
This is some good work! Excited to see all the improvements once they are implemented here!