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There's a chance that I have forgotten something or missed something.
But these are my finds, so far.
These points are not a priority, but relatively easy to achieve. They will gradually appear on the instance in between working on significant things. It's worth following https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog
I'm just wondering about 'spoiler alert' - what is it exactly? I haven't delved into Lemmy's code for a long time.
I would guess it's the capacity of masking text through markdown for spoiler purposes:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/104
masking text
Like this?
kbin does that just fine.
Oh my Deity how did you do that?!
I've been cursing enviously for days when I see a spoiler (system) I couldn't use myself!
I didn't get Lemmy's style to work.
hidden text title
hidden text
hidden text title
hidden text
test
Does this thing work?
sigh Finally.
Now I just need to find a convenient way to save this piece of code and copy-paste it whenever I need it 🤔
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...except that when I wrote more text into this comment, the code broke 🤔
Upon further testing - if I edit a text, the spoiler stops working. When I update the page, the spoiler works again.
Indeed, I missed that case, thanks.
Now I just need to find a convenient way to save this piece of code and copy-paste it whenever I need it 🤔
Honestly, I'd just suggest to add a button for it in the editor after the code one? I think it's a common enough thing to use to warrant it. For every other formatting maybe a little link for a pop up or expandable that shows the remaining formatting rules, similar to how it was on old.reddit.
I wholeheartedly agree on the editor button!
Ironically, that doesn't work for me at all. (I have seen other spoiler blocks recently though, so not sure why not.)
Is it browser-, operating system- or device-related?
I'm on Windows PC, Firefox, at https://kbin.social/
I'm poking around at it now. I'm guessing it's probably something to do with JavaScript -- which I block by default via NoScript. (That's kind of odd though since I thought it was generating a /\ HTML block server side, but maybe it's doing it on the client and I just happened to have JS unblocked when I saw it before?)
Edit: It looks like it is coming from this webpack'd JS file currently which I think is built from this JS source file; there is a handleSpoilers function defined which manipulates details/summary elements. Oddly, there is also PHP code for manipulating details/summary like I thought.
@ernest can chime in on if that's a temporary thing or what, but yeah, it seems to not work for me because I block JavaScript.
Hmm. Okay.
Yeah I'm no code savvy so let's hope they know more about it 😁
Yo, that is so good to know!
Wish there was a link to some quick stylesheet guide that kbin supports when you write a comment. Haven't seen this feature before.
It just got added last week. This is the post demoing it in the devlog: https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/651148/RTR-22-Further-improvements-interspersed-with-code-refactoring
There are microblogs on Kbin.
Indeed, and then there is a whole raft of searching, sorting and filtering options for Microblog posts (aka Toots) which kbin does, and which Lemmy can't even see.
Yeah, didn't remember that, even though I've used them a little 🤦♂️
Updated!
Needs a line about tankies.
More pleasing UI
Boosts
Seeing upvoters and downvoters
Yeah. The UI would be my key takeaway here. I just find Lemmy convoluted and confusing. Might be me just being too used to the old Reddit layout but I just like kbin more on that front.
Threads (a.k.a. posts on Lemmy) can be hashtagged on /kbin
Added hashtags
I'm so happy that now I can edit the thread picture afterwards!
Needed to edit the picture many times! 😂
Random/related toot and thread suggestions
What do you mean?
"Random posts" and "Random threads" on sidebar. When you are in a particular thread/mag, this feature still serves randomised posts/threads but with related tags.
Aaa!
Is it close/the same as this over Lemmy?
I only see this community-related thingie though - selecting a random post/thread doesn't give me any bar of random threads.
I am talking about this.
Picture updated!
of all these beautiful features, gotta say the CSS styling on the mags is my FAAAAVVEEE. i love doing it. i kinda go overboard and need to reel it in, but the ability to personalize your mag is so fun. though, people should have an option to toggle mag styles off, they can be distracting or the best part about the mag lol (ㅅ´ ˘ `)
Can’t boosts count as bookmarks?
I think it would depend on how you work with it.
If you use it only for bookmarking threads, then kinda yeah.
But if you just give thumbs up to stuff without ever returning later, then it would probably be difficult to find your bookmarks from between.
My personal opinion?
I'd rather keep them apart, cos I feel they are a different function and useful apart as well.
What do the colors mean?
Green: software has feature, red: software lacks feature?
Affirmative!
If by "spoiler alert" you mean
spoiler
this
then it's supported now (ernest added it some days ago).
Win+. is a Windows functionality, yeah.
Some differences not yet mentioned are
Does Lemmy mark new comments in posts? Since kbin just added that recently.