First of all, I don’t even know if this is the place to ask, but I couldn’t find anywhere else that made sense…

Second, Kbin looks amazing, definitely the best out of the fediverse, however there are still things I cannot for the life of me find in the UI.

  1. Where can I see a list of the magazines I’m subscribed to? A list, not posts from.
  2. Why do the thumbnails for posts appear distorted? The have incorrect aspect ratio. Is there a way to fix this?
  3. Where can I see a list of local communities?
  4. How is microblogging handled differently from other types of posts? Do they all show up on the home page?

EDIT: #5 I don’t seem to get any notifications of any sort, visual or otherwise, that I have received responses to a post or comment. Is this the way it’s supposed to be?

I have many more, but any help with those for now would be amazing.

  • Mintyytea@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago
    1. maybe the thumbnails will get better. kbin is very new still I think, so the site is more barebones atm probably compared to lemmy
    2. What do you mean by community? Like the magazine?
    3. I think microblogging is more like a Tweet, I think kbin is trying to integrate more with Mastodon which basically does tweets.

    By the way if you want to add a Thread, which is reddit’s “post”, then I think you do it by Add a New Article. I was confused cuz there’s no Add a new Thread, but I’m guessing you can do it with Add new link, photo, video, or article. Article means a text only thread I think.

    • RodPhoto@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      1. Got it, makes sense, I figured as much.

      2. Yes, I mean a list of magazines hosted/birthed on kbin.

      3. I have no experience with Mastodon, but thank you for suggesting “New Article” which is what I did here, seems like the type of post I was looking to make, which is unintuitive because if you click on “Add New Post” it takes you to microblogging, and that’s where my question arised.

      Thanks again!

      • Mintyytea@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        To see more magazines/communities, I click Magazines and then that page has a search bar for magazines (I search for the names of my reddit subreddits) and a list of a lot of them.

        I think on redditalternatives, there’s also a migration directory to show the corresponding subreddit to community/magazine