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PSA: Upvote is not an upvote like you are used to (like Reddit) - "Boost" is the Reddit Upvote (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by HamSwagwich@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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Like the title says, if you want to upvote something on KBin, you should use the Boost link, not the upvote button (Why? Don't know...)

The upvote button doesn't seem to do much, but Boost accomplishes what Reddit's upvote did. So if you're looking to encourage a post, use the Boost link.

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[–] Shortcake@kbin.social 139 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the dev of kbin will be changing this. so up/downvotes are what affect your reputation. It's just not a priority right now

[–] BedSharkPal@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Do we know if there have been any releases since the influx of users? Or are they just focusing on backend stuff still?

There's still a lot of long hanging fruit *COUGHcollapsingthreads that would be great to have addressed sooner rather than later.

[–] ChillChillinChinchilla@kbin.social 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they

It's just one guy. We were a bit worried if he was even sleeping when the first big wave hit and he kept everything up by cloudflare and prayer.

[–] BedSharkPal@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely @ernest has some help at this point? Needs to start delegating or finding trusted maintainers if not.

[–] lohrun@fediverse.boo 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah there are a bunch of us in the dev chat now. Some of us have set up our additional kbin instances such as myself. I’m still looking through the code and getting up to speed but hope to contribute to the main code base soon. (Right now I’m experimenting with some features I wrote on my instance)

So yes, it’s mainly been Ernest up until this point but he is starting to get additional support from the community :)

[–] Upvotes_Kills_Birds@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for joining! Excited to see the site grow.

[–] lohrun@fediverse.boo 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! I’m excited to see the site grow as well. We seem to be building a nice place to hangout and have good discussions unlike the site that shall not be named.

(Also love your username)

[–] ernest@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yes, there is a very strong team there now, and I will gradually delegate responsibility in certain areas. I need to focus on my own milestones. However, I want to do it slowly because there are many pitfalls here that are a consequence of kbin being a side project. But the organization on Matrix was amazing, and I didn't even lift a finger for it.

@BedSharkPal @Upvotes_Kills_Birds

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Not bad for a 'side project', not bad at all!

I'm very much enjoying your side project, and we all appreciate all the effort you've put in as we've stressed it to (and no doubt beyond!) It's design limits.

I also appreciate the way you pop up and contribute to random threads!

[–] dejf@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Your level of engagement with the community is absolutely spectacular. I'm glad to have found myself a cozy little Internet space and wish you the best of luck with this one hell of a side project!

[–] HamSwagwich@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@ernest I can't imagine how stressful it is for you. I've run a few larger projects (ShowEQ back in the day, being one of the bigger ones), but nothing that blew up so quickly like Kbin has and I don't envy your position. I really appreciate the work you've put into KBin and I want to see it succeed!

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

Is any of this code open sourced, or on GitHub, gitlab, etc? Is the matrix channel private or open to any coders?

[–] BedSharkPal@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Great to hear!

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

There's several of us now with kbin installed locally and a decent dev chat channel that's pretty busy. I think so the end it's still him physically marking PRs as approved and merging it in / deploying, but at least there's a few contributors now :)

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There have been fixes submitted by volunteers, but I don't think they've been reviewed and approved. And I don't think there have been any new releases.

Hopefully things pick up speed now that Ernest has a server admin to look after things here

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

Yeah, there's a PR for collapsing threads, but I don't know when it will come to release.

[–] artillect@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I made a userscript that allows you to collapse comments, that should help you out until it's added to the site officially

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

You can have a look here to see a test instance with some of the things that are coming, Ernest (the admin) has been merging in a range of tickets including bug fixes, UI improvements and other bits.

There seems to be an ever growing backlog of feature requests and bug fixes in the issues list but a fair bit is getting sorted out behind the scenes.

I'm mostly focused on UI/UX for mobile.

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

So if up/down votes will be fixed in the future, what would boost mean at that point?