What the title says. I think the site needs to reach critical mass sooner rather than later, and on top of the relatively low activity for now, we want to avoid obstacles to new migration, even if it’s small convenience stuff. So, what would make your life easier as a kbin user?

Personally, I know I use the save button a lot for important resources and future reference. Even twitter has bookmarks! Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think it’s anywhere to be found. It’s also my feeling that a lot of people would prefer the boost feature to be an effect of upvoting instead of a separate button. It makes sense as a kind of “retweet” thing for microblogging, but on the threads side, it doesn’t really work with the magazine-centered instead of user-centered feed.

(not sure this is the right place for this discussion, but this is currently the largest mag about kbin itself, above kbin and kbinmeta)

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    A simple “context” button on comments in one’s profile or inbox would be nice instead of having to click “copy url” and paste it back into the address bar to go back to the thread you were talking in.

  • bluGill@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Not in reddit, but if you can figure out how to mark/collapse already read comments by default. This is something usenet had decades ago that nothing else does. It is really hard/annoying to go back to long comments just because you have to wade through so much that you have already read to find the interesting new comments. If KBin could have this in some way I think that would be a killer feature.

  • wnose@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    RES’s ignore user/subreddit function was really useful. Took out 95% of the trash on /r/all

  • DMBFFF@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    1. polls, but much more than 6 options, much longer than 7 days, and OP can see results without voting.

    2. be able to see list of what one has upvoted and downvoted.

    3. embed videos, particularly YT, Vimeo, niconico, Wikicommons, Archives, and, of course, Peertube.

    4. be able to crosspost.

  • SamXavia@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    @That_Mad_Scientist From what I can tell, we are currently missing an actual App for Android and iOS but also it would be good if we could have a Magazine back log to check if there are past posts on External ones hosted on places like Lemmy.

  • style99@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’d like to see an “other discussions” tab (a list of threads that have the same topic in other subreddits).

  • xNIBx@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Automatically hide upvoted submissions. This is a huge one for me and it would make kbin 1000x more usable. I wont have have to scroll through a billion already seen submissions to find something new.

    • Izzgo@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      Automatically hide upvoted submissions.

      I think you mean, hide submissions which you have upvoted, not other people, yes? I agree, although I’d like that as an option rather than automatic.

  • Izzgo@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’d like easy access to a donate button, for the federated instance (is that the right name?) I’ve joined. When I first joined I saw a way to donate, and made a small I-don’t-know-if-I’m-staying donation. But now I’d like to donate a bit here and there and can’t find a donate button.

  • Kill_joy@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Upvotes on kbin also function as favorites. So everything you’ve upvoted is now logged in your favorite tab - essentially a bookmark.

    Is that what you mean?

    I personally would love it if the OP of a thread was highlighted in the comment section. Small QoL but it drives me crazy not being able to quickly differentiate who OP is in the comment chain.

    • That_Mad_Scientist@kbin.socialOP
      0·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think that’s really granular enough, though. I guess it would be fine right now with the amount of content we’re getting, but on reddit, I lose count on the number of posts I upvote and mostly just forget about on a daily basis, so long term it wouldn’t work out, I think.

      Also, it’s a specific social signal that you think the post is good and so others may want to look at it. I do think it’s really interesting how there are separate upvote and downvote counts showing controversiality intsead of a tally which may hide interesting dynamics.

  • DrJeckyl@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Some have been suggested already but here’s mine:
    Collapse or hide comment thread/child comments.
    Jump to top
    Highlight OP in the comments

    EDIT: Didn’t meant to reply to you @bluGill. Still getting used to Kbin.

    • Voyajer@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      The indent of an OP’s replies is a different color and dashed to differentiate from other users. I agree it could be something more prominent though.