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[–] whaleross@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@ernest It would be handy to be able to block all magazines from an entire domain without having to check every single one as new ones are trending in the global feeds. In my case feddit.de - not because antagonism but because I don't understand German. I'd imagine this be a future issue as more language dedicated servers emerge.

[–] Awesomejt@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

My homepage is about 60% German currently so I'd like this too. It's a little frustrating and I can't seem to find any options that help except for sticking to subscribed or local.

[–] sarfunkel@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Has anyone else stopped receiving notifications? I haven't gotten any notifications the past couple of days even though my notifications are all turned on.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just browsing new and came across the MAP ("minor and youth attracted people") magazine from rqd2.net, most of the active people there are using the same instance. I will be blocking the instance as best I know how, but I think defederating might be the safest bet.

[–] ernest@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for pointing it out.

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[–] dumbyoyo@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just came here from reddit, so I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this but anyway... Usernames when logging in are case sensitive. This should not be the case because
#1 it's very confusing (I could not figure out why my password was constantly wrong even after resetting it, until i remembered some comment from someone on reddit about case sensitive login issues on some website and tried changing the first letter of my username to lowercase, then it finally worked). I haven't seen any other website work like this.
#2 you're basically allowing people to impersonate others if user account creation thinks usernames with different capitalization are unique names.

Btw, there should be an "Add comment" or "Reply" button up top on the post. At first i thought the thread was locked since there wasn't a reply button, but then i remembered some old forums put it at the bottom of the page, so i scrolled to the bottom, still no reply button. I had to scroll back up through like 4 screens worth of useless footer clutter before i finally found a comment area. This is going to decrease engagement and growth. (I'm on mobile btw). I even tapped on the + button on top to try to add a comment but there was no option. Same with the More button on the post (though it shouldn't be hidden in a More menu since it's a core feature).

[–] wakasm@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe it's a server issue with all the new traffic but is the way to not get logged out after such short periods of time/usage? Feels like any time I attempt to interact with something on kbin I have to relog in.

Also, as someone else provided feedback on, being able to hide threads in a comment feed would be super useful. If it exists now I haven't figured.out how to do it

Just my initial feedback.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been having a problem recently (and intermittently) where when I upvote a comment it goes to a page that says Error and I have to go back to the previous thread, refresh it, and then the upvote works.

[–] ernest@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have also noted that. I will check it tomorrow, thanks.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Cheers, thanks for everything you guys do

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

The boosts tab in my profile is filling with things I haven't boosted. I know I've mistakenly tapped on some buttons on mobile, but even unboosting things doesn't remove them. I tested with this thread by boosting and unboosting, and it's now permanently in my boosts tab. Even a comment I accidentally reduced and unreduced is in that tab. I don't understand why. I'm brand new to kbin so maybe I'm doing something wrong or unaware of something.

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

Magazine names should not be case-sensitive, but they are.

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

Unsure which side the problem lies or it's just unfixable atm, but some(didn't check all) of my subscribed communities that are on Lemmy instances are unfortunately not properly synced.
And I think one thing that should be of highest priority is, a way to see comments that had been edited.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I don't see this one in the issues list but, at least when sorting threads by newest, blocked domains still have content that shows up. I confirmed the domain is flagged as blocked in the UI at least. If I block the magazine, I don't see it at all, but seeing hate speech is not my idea of a good time.

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

Idk if it's related to all new users but navigation is slow for me (France).

[–] OverfedRaccoon@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I ate all the food. I can see why you're angry, and I'm sorry.

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

Slightly annoying issue:

No reply notifications for comments.

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

It was working for me last night, but now I'm not getting any notifications, either.

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

When I joined a couple days ago, it worked immediately when someone responded to me. Now, it's either delayed by a couple hours or doesn't work at all. It's probably low on their priority list right now, but I hope it gets fixed eventually.

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

Is this thread monitored? Asking because, from what I observed, that federated Hexbear(dot)net users and communities don't seem to be possible to block. Or should I use the contact form?

[–] xep@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've noticed this too. Is there any workaround? Some Hexbear users are egregious and clutter up posts with meaningless noise.

[–] Auster@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Still can't block @hexbear.net instances

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

Maybe I don't understand but my reputation points always say negative. I did the math myself, i have lots more updoots than dislikes. Am i not understanding reputation maybe?

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

its the same for everyone. upvotes dont increase reputation.

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

Is this by design or a known issue?

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

Checking "Hide Adult Content" doesn't actually seem like it blocks threads from nsfw magazines. When browsing threads by "newest", I definitely have multiple explicit pictures from explicit magazines (gfur, petplayyiff, & feralyiff?) I'm not subscribed to show up.

[–] Flames5123@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am not enjoying kbin.social right now. The latency is beyond atrocious, at 10+ seconds to load each page. The UI reminds me of 2004 forums that don’t know how users work. The mobile UI is just the worst.

Some pain points:

  • I’m a software engineer so I can figure this shit out, but how the hell do I subscribe to a magazine? If I go to it, there should be a “subscribe” or context menu at the top to subscribe/favorite/mute. (I found it, but it's so weird on mobile to click the logo then scroll to get to the subscribe.)
  • Why is the comment box all the way at the bottom? Where’s the “add comment” button on a post?
  • Why are comments paginated like a forum? Why not just a “load more” like Reddit? What’s the point? It's not to decrease the response because you can do that with "load more" buttons.
  • Selecting the comment box should NOT zoom slightly into the page. The mobile web UI needs a lot of work from people who know how to do mobile UIs.
  • Is there no “homepage” button? Clicking the Kbin logo at the top just brings up a menu, which requires another click on the homepage button to get back. This is weird and unintuitive.
  • Edit: And you can't collapse comment threads? What even...

I really want a Reddit replacement, but this is not it with this terrible UI.

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

I’m a software engineer

if you're a software engineer you should had known to make constructive comments and also most importantly realise that you are on a Non-commercial open source one-man-project. Your attitude is disgusting and you sound like the guys that nobody wants to work with. Nobody forces you to be here and you're welcome to go and please take your cancer with you on your way out.

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

https://kbin.social/m/functionalprint

I can not delete threads

I tried to post a thread a few days ago, and I get "We are working on resolving the issues",
So I waited a few hours and tried again a few times.

Then suddenly like 8 posts all the same pop'd up hours later.

I was able to remove a few duplicates, but I can't remove any more.

Not sure what's going on, but this magazine is now dead in water, as no new posts are working and I can't get rid of others.

[–] ernest@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I will check it.

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

@ernest having issues uploading a profile pic - is there a size limit? If so, would like to ask that the size limit be defined on the upload page.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm begging for someone to take a look at the CSRF error that is still plaguing the site. Sometimes I can't upvote posts/comments withing 60 seconds of loading a page. I have to hit refresh every single time I want to vote on something or I'm taken to the error page.

[–] hayf28@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I added the web app on Android and even with rotation turned off it is rotating to landscape

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

The only issue I would like to change is to be able to middle click links and open the link, not the comments. That being said, if something like that is already available or in the works, please someone let me know.

[–] CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Blocking a magazine does not keep it from appearing on your sidebar random thread/post feed. I blocked an NSFW mag and reloaded the page and it was still present.

[–] CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and now a mag i had already blocked appears in my sidebar as an explicit image, so it wasn't a page reload bug either.

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

Noted, thanks.

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

The past couple of days I’m constantly being signed out. I have to login several times a day, practically every time I visit.

This seems to happen much more frequently on the mobile version of the site, and whatever Artemis is using to scrape data.

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