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Some suggestions for improving Kbin: (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by RosalynKirk@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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I know you have a lot going on right now, so I'm gonna cut Kbin a lot of slack. The simple ability to search, view, and subscribe to "magazines" is the best feature. But I have notes:

  1. Move OP reply box to the top of the page. Took me forever to figure out how to reply to the OP.

  2. Remove pages. Just put it all on one page, please. This just causes unnecessary loading.

  3. expand "magazines" to show what instance they are located on.

  4. Eliminate the new vocabulary. Nobody knows what a "magazine" is. Nor do they know what is an "article" in this context. The + button should just be "submit new post" and then you should be able to type text, upload media, or post a link from there.

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[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I think there's a tracker issue for all of these on Codeberg already .. it's just that the backlog went from 15 issues to 380 over night while ernest has been battling with site uptime.

Eliminate the new vocabulary. Nobody knows what a "magazine" is. Nor do they know what is an "article" in this context. The + button should just be "submit new post" and then you should be able to type text, upload media, or post a link from there.

I disagree somewhat. Magazine is just fine. This doesn't have to conform to Reddit or Lemmy standards. It doesn't take long to understand and it kinda makes sense.

The article/post thing: Should probably rename the "Microblog" to "Posts" and Threads to "Articles" - that way the naming and placing of those would be consistent in the UI and it would be easy to understand which section the content ends up in.