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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/spez!

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

This is awful. It’s confusing.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is from the various services trying to talk to each other in ways they weren't originally designed to do, really. Our "upvote" is a mastodon "favorite" (like) while our "boost" is functionally a retweet/reblog. Kbin tries to bridge the gap between threaded content and microblogging, and it gets about 90% of the way there; all it really needs to do is change it so that upvotes are the ones that contribute to reputation instead of boosts, which are functionally useless outside a fully microblog-style environment.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I just gave you a Boost and a Favourite!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

And an upvote?!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

What's the conversion to Stanley nickels?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Lol, the developer has acknowledged it doesn't make sense at the moment and it will be changed.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thank goodness for that at least. It can't come soon enough

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

It is currently broken which is why it functions in such a terrible way. A fix has been made, but not yet pushed to live. Hold tight :)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It'll work itself out eventually. Kbin is still super new. Ernest is hard at work every day

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Kbin is basically still in alpha. They're fixing stuff like this. It'll be fixed soon.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

@Brkdncr

There's definitely room for improvement, but I like what I see so far and don't have a problem learning a new paradigm. I'm sure that as the platform matures things will become more consistent.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

100% agreed on all points.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

From what I can see the upvote / downvote both work as you'd expect now (as in upvoting curates content). There was apparently a period of time where 'boost' was the upvote mechanic but that's been changed

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I've read it's a work in progress and may be changed at some point to be consistent across the Fediverse. Poor guy is slammed with feature requests and bug reports with Kbin.

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