If you just wanna play it, here's the link: https://phoboslab.org/wipegame/

A couple of weeks ago, @shazbot made this post about a project that they were working on. Since then, @shazbot, @ori, @minnieo and I have been hard at work, and we are excited to finally announce the official release of kbin Enhancement Suite (KES)!

kbin has seen an explosion of user-made add-ons, but keeping track of them in one place, letting them share settings with one another, and toggling them on and off can be a challenge. KES is an expandable add-on manager that aims to rectify this by providing a unified interface and framework for script makers to collaborate, and letting you use them all in one place.

KES brings together userscripts from the community, with a built-in settings menu that lets you tailor your experience to your liking. It also offers a flexible framework that empowers script authors to effortlessly integrate scripts into KES and set up custom input fields with no additional code.

KES gives you a single window onto a collection of enhancements that is growing by the day. And those features can be added to by you!

The KES settings menu

What the feed looks like with everything enabled

The comments with everything turned on

Features

We’ve focused on making customizing your kbin experience as easy as possible, whether you are on mobile or desktop. After we sort out the bug reports from this release, we plan on adding many more features! Here’s what we have so far:

• Collapsible comments with nesting (by @artillect)
• Use slash commands to add emoticons in text areas (by @minnieo)
• Add syntax highlighting (with customizable themes) to code blocks (by @ori)
• Show instance names next to non-local users and communities (by @artillect)
• Add a link to message users on your instance next to their usernames (by @shazbot)
• Hide upvote/downvote buttons and reputation (by @artillect)
• Show more detailed timestamps on threads and comments (by @shazbot)
• Hide thumbnails on threads (by @shazbot)
• Add link to subscribed magazines to the navbar (by @shazbot)
• Replace or hide the kbin logo in the navbar (by @shazbot)
• Add “OP” label next to thread author’s username in comments (by @shazbot)
• Convert navigation links on profile pages into a dropdown (by @shazbot)

Each of these can be toggled in the settings menu, and some of them have additional configuration options, such as setting custom labels, colors, etc.

New features are added on a rolling basis and the menu pages will update on the fly to reflect this new content.

Installation

Click here to install KES, and follow your userscript manager’s prompt to complete the installation.

If you don’t have a userscript management extension, you can install one of these, and then install KES using the link above:

• TamperMonkey (desktop, or Firefox on Android)
• Userscripts (iOS 15+)

Once KES is successfully installed, access the settings menu by clicking on the wrench icon located at the top-right corner next to your username. From there, you can enable the features you like, and customize your browsing experience.

More information

For bug reports and feature requests, visit our GitHub repository’s issues page. If you have any questions or need assistance, don’t hesitate to ask here or make a post on /m/enhancement!

Developers

If you are a userscript author, we’d love it if you could try porting your userscripts into KES, or try writing completely new ones for it! @shazbot has made it easy to integrate your scripts: you just need to add your script’s information to manifest.json, make a few small modifications to your script, add it all to the GitHub repository, and you’re good to go!

KES benefits:

• Turnkey integration: a simple, declarative framework for dynamically adding features to the UI without touching the underlying code
• Sharing of user-defined settings through script namespaces: access your script settings, and those from other scripts, through a well-defined object
• Automatically responds to infinite scroll and page reload events
• Attribution of script authors
• Easily toggle scripts on/off

Explore KES’s documentation here to get started. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out here, on /m/enhancement, or at our GitHub repository.

I'm trying to upload a picture to make a post, and I keep getting the error "This value should not be blank" when I try to submit my post, even though all of them are filled in. Any idea what's going on?

Since /r/spotted got taken over, I decided to make a magazine on kbin for car spotting! Go check out @spotted if you're interested! (Let me know if the link doesn't work)

I tried looking around for a changelog but I couldn't find one anywhere (let me know if you know where it is, I know you can look at the commits/merged PRs on Codeberg but there's a lot to dig through).

Here's some of the changes I've noticed:

• Profile picture next to username in top right
• Comments can now be sorted by "top"
• Larger image preview when uploading an image
• Magazine stats are now localized (yay!!!)
• kbin logo instead of stormtrooper in the "Create your own instance" box
• Vote colors are brighter on dark mode
• New theme: Tokyo Night

This is just what I've seen after using the site for a bit after the update, let me know if there's anything I've missed!

Edit: I just noticed that you can filter posts by language now, that's huge!

I'm working on a bit of a project for kbin, and I want to make a logo for it that's inspired by kbin's, but I can't figure out what font the logo uses. Any help would be appreciated!

edit: Axiforma Bold looks pretty similar, but not exactly the same, I think I might use that.

Download it from greasyfork

This userscript for kbin enhances the comment section adjusting the layout and adding a line to the left of each comment and its replies that lets you collapse them. The design is inspired by some custom subreddit stylesheets, and new reddit surprisingly enough (you know what they say about broken clocks).

Personally, I think this is the best way to handle collapsing comments here's a screenshot.

A video of it in action

If you don't have a userscript manager extension installed, you can install Tampermonkey, and then open the greasyfork link above.

I just saw some posts from beehaw.org and lemmy.world, looks like we're back in business!

Hey Reddit refugees! You may have noticed that kbin.social is taking forever to load because of all of the traffic it's getting.

Luckily, there are a few other kbin instances that you can use right now! kilioa.org and fedia.io have recently popped up over the last few days, and they're still running smoothly during the Reddit blackout. They're also still federating with Lemmy, so you can see posts from beehaw.org and lemmy.ml (federation is currently disabled on kbin.social due to the cloudflare protection).