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Like the title says, if you want to upvote something on KBin, you should use the Boost link, not the upvote button (Why? Don't know...)

The upvote button doesn't seem to do much, but Boost accomplishes what Reddit's upvote did. So if you're looking to encourage a post, use the Boost link.

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[–] dannekrose@kilioa.org 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@HamSwagwich

This is a result of the original design. Kbin, up until just before the peak traffic hit, was using boosts as upvotes and favorites/likes were just below the post/thread (where boost sits now). Lemmy does it the way it is now (likes = upvotes) so Ernest changed it to match Lemmy behavior. But just as he changed it, he hadn’t changed the calculation for reputation to match when the server nearly melted down and he has to spend all his time just trying to keep the site alive by himself.

[–] iamhazel@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago
[–] garrettw87@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see you’re on a different Kbin instance. Was this intended to be a threaded reply, out of curiosity? Because it shows up as a top-level comment on the post for me.

[–] Awwab@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He using an optional feature that lets you auto populate your reply box with the OPs username.

[–] garrettw87@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, but my bigger point is that it’s not threaded as a reply to one of that user’s comments.

Edit: Oops, nevermind. I saw their comments elsewhere down here but didn’t realize they were OP. Just one of the interface things on Kbin that needs improvement.

Edit 2: I need to figure out how to do strikethrough text on here

[–] artillect@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can do strikethrough text ~~like this~~

[–] HamSwagwich@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm viewing this from KBin and I don't see strikethrough.

[–] artillect@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's because I put that in a code block with backticks (`), here's what it looks like normally ~~testing~~

[–] Overarch3784@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Teon@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

~~test successful~~

[–] LinusWorks4Mo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

~~like this?~~

[–] KuchiKopi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks! I'll upvote this for visibility.

[–] DONTBANTHISACCOUNT@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

418 upvotes / 3 downvoted = You one funny Person*

I am brand new to KBIN n loving it so far

Thanks to OP I got me answer .. that's the first thing I didn't get;
"What's the diff between n upvote and boost ? "

[–] Potato__Ninja@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Bruh, you got me laughing hard.

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I really don't know which is which and what does what, so I just click them both

[–] robinson@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Damaskox@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

So...is the boost and the upvote info still valid?

[–] Shortcake@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the dev of kbin will be changing this. so up/downvotes are what affect your reputation. It's just not a priority right now

[–] BedSharkPal@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do we know if there have been any releases since the influx of users? Or are they just focusing on backend stuff still?

There's still a lot of long hanging fruit *COUGHcollapsingthreads that would be great to have addressed sooner rather than later.

they

It's just one guy. We were a bit worried if he was even sleeping when the first big wave hit and he kept everything up by cloudflare and prayer.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

You can have a look here to see a test instance with some of the things that are coming, Ernest (the admin) has been merging in a range of tickets including bug fixes, UI improvements and other bits.

There seems to be an ever growing backlog of feature requests and bug fixes in the issues list but a fair bit is getting sorted out behind the scenes.

I'm mostly focused on UI/UX for mobile.

[–] Yoscooter@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Sylveon-Z@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do wish there was a bit more privacy involved with boosting though, as of right now anyone can see what I boost.

[–] WhyIDie@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

for me, the main selling point of kbin over lemmy was the transparency in user interactions on here. the last straw on the camel's back over at lemmy for me was seeing blatant vote manipulation hiding behind the end-user anonymity; kept an eye on some accounts that would instantly always get the same number of upvotes, dependent on the specific account, less than 3-5 seconds after posting. it was always some single-digit amount (I assume to not get flagged by the system), but that's all it takes to signal others to feel safer upvoting it.

the same can be done likewise to bury others' content that they can view as competition to what they want seen, multiple early downvotes can act as a subconscious deterrent to others

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not crazy about the design. An upvote should be an upvote. If the upvote is useless, why is it even there?

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It'll be changed soon™, so upvotes will boost reputation.