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)

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      Yeah I was thinking that like “moods” somtimes I want my “news” mags, other times I want memes.i had to block meme mags as they were taking over but might have a different account for them if I can’t swap between meme mode and news/tech articles.

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        Yeah, “All” or “subscribed” is not granular enough, I like having groups based on my interests at that time - software / gaming / etc. Would be nice to have for sure.

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          Not only that, but there’s a lot of duplication of topics across different magazines. If you could “multibin” them into a meta magazine, that would be really helpful.

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    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.

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    Clicking on links takes you to the article (with a new tab option) instead of the comments section for Kbin. It feels too redundant and inefficient in its current form.

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      I miss the ability to do this on a per-thread/comment basis especially.

      Sometimes I just want to be done with a particular discussion; back there, I would be able to disable inbox replies on particular comments without turning off all notifications.

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        Ditto. Hell I made an AskKbin post a week or so ago and I was getting notifications for days, even long after the person had made their comment lol

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

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    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.

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      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.

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    Not Reddit specifically, but from Reddit Enhancement Suit, like tracking new and edited comments in subscribed posts (and I guess microblogs too, with Kbin Social’s scope) and automatic formatting preview.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.