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A lot subreddits end their blackout tomorrow. Will you go back to Reddit, or continue with kbin and the Fediverse? (kbin.social)
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I haven't used Reddit at all since the blackout began. Even if they change course, the Fediverse is growing on me, and I think I'll stay here.

But I think I'll peek in tomorrow to see what happens.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

First comment here.

I am not enjoying kbin.social right now. The latency is beyond atrocious, at 10+ seconds to load each page. The UI reminds me of 2004 forums that don’t know how users work. The mobile UI is just the worst.

Some pain points:

  • I’m a software engineer so I can figure this shit out, but how the hell do I subscribe to a magazine? If I go to it, there should be a “subscribe” or context menu at the top to subscribe/favorite/mute
  • Why is the comment box all the way at the bottom? Where’s the “add comment” button on a post?
  • Why are comments paginated like a forum? Why not just a “load more” like Reddit? What’s the point?
  • Selecting the comment box should NOT zoom slightly into the page. The mobile web UI needs a lot of work from people who know how to do mobile UIs.
  • Is there no “homepage” button? Clicking the Kbin logo at the top just brings up a menu, which requires another click on the homepage button to get back.
  • Edit: And you can't collapse comment threads? What even...

I really want a Reddit replacement, but this is not it with this terrible UI. It’s unusable, literally–if I can’t subscribe to a magazine then it’s not working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

•Subscribe is literally on the sidebar?

•They want to encourage people reading before posting first, but there are style sheets you can apply to move the comment box. Really, kbin just needs a service like RES so people can adjust things to their tastes

•Because it's not Reddit?

•Yeah, some fixing needs to be done

The great thing about it being federated though is that you can find a community that better fits your needs, and still get the content from here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On mobile, the sidebar is actually under comments...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I know it'd be nice for us to just have a breezy experience where all our expectations played out before us with a snap of the fingers, please try and remember this site has been here like one single month, and the dude who's running things managed to accommodate like 120000! new members signing in yesterday. It's slow because it's new and we're all donating money to get this ramped up as quickly as possible.

Just have some grace, and some sympathy, and maybe even some patience.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I'm not here for a slick interface and lightning fast performance. Those things can be fixed. I'm here for the community -- that's something Reddit doesn't have, and can never be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this might seem silly, but - while the lag is frustrating - it kinda reminds me of the old internet and it's weirdly nostalgic for me? lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

90's kid here. Might explain why it's just annoying and not absolutely intolerable to me. Makes me want to go watch flash animations about badgers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can definitely see how that’s all frustrating, and I’m sure we all have our experiences with lag or with that goddamn Cloudflare verification or whatever, but I hope you and everyone else will stick around so we can help shape this space the way we want it. You’re already doing that with your comment above. Imagine the almost impossible chances of making suggestions to Reddit and having changes made. At least here that’s a possibility. I hope to see you around.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The site is still in its infancy too, so people just need to be a little more patient for a little while.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thing is, most people use reddit like apps to kill boredom. So Idt they would stay patient much longer to see an infant site to grow.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I definitely used reddit during activity or social transitions. Maybe too much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unrelated, your username scared me for a second because the notification read like 667 (people) replied to my comment lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

lol sorry! 667: Neighbor of the Beast.