For me flair is probably the most important. I follow a lot of organized sports and being able to quickly identify which team someone supports helps the conversation move along without having to write “as a fan of…” in every single comment. And this isn’t a like talking shit, sports guy thing. It’s genuinely extremely useful for broadening the depth of the conversation.
Also not having to scroll to find the reply box. Super annoying. Super easy fix.
That being said I’m all in on kbin. Deleted Reddit. Not going back.
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Greater attention to user anonymity. For example, right now, you can look at any thread/comment and see who upvoted it and who downvoted it. In addition to causing arguments and drama, it also can be used to build a profile of what a user likes or dislikes - which can have significant ramifications for many people. Users need to be able to trust in certain aspects of anonymity and have control over what information they allow to be public. That also includes public access to know who follows a particular user as well.
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The ability to save threads and comments.
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The ability to expand/collapse comment trees.
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Better moderation tools, including the ability to be notified when new threads are created in a magazine you moderate.
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The titles to threads need to directly link to the linked URL instead of opening the kbin comments page. You shouldn’t need to go through twice the effort to get to the linked URL. It also adds twice the load for the kbin servers.
I’d like the ability to inline expand images / videos, it was a great RES feature.
Easier way to sub to magazines than scrolling to the bottom on mobile would also be a corker.
Agreed, this is one of the creature comforts I miss the most.
Point 1 is paramount. 5 is important also from a tech standpoint. The rest are very good points.
I really like that we can see the activity. People are using downvote way too easily. Lets make everyone accountable.
edit: hey downvoters, come off your high horse and argue. right now all your saying is “shut up”, so for me you are contributing to exclude people to express themself. this is not at all what I’m looking forward in this community.
@aroom I don’t like this because I know that people in public and especially on the internet, can have absolute psychopathic reactions to simple discussions. I don’t need some lunatic looking through my history because I downvoted them for saying something that is clearly insane - I would rather stay relatively anonymous.
And that is without even considering doxxing.if it become this toxic, you can block the user. I for one welcome the transparency and think that this downvote habit some have is building an unwelcoming environment, far different from what I’m experiencing on the fediverse since years.
so I’m not so ok with it. but to anyone their own opinion.
We should have the ability to manage what of our data goes out to the internet/advertisers/scrapers/other users. Non negotiable.
I totally agree. We could let this info be private between users.
Advertiser makes a user account that is a bot for harvesting data. Now it isn’t between human users anymore. And more than that I don’t think I want people I don’t know having access to information I don’t want them to have access to.
but if you interact with me I’d like to know. So where do you draw the line? or maybe I don’t understand you correctly.
I don’t want to be advocating to less privacy, so feel free to correct me, but just by interacting with each other right now, without using the upvote and downvote system, we are already giving information to potential scrappers no? The solution would be to remove upvote and downvote all together then?
I like how favorite works on mastodon. we could achieve the same on kbin?
Could it be possible to have two kinds of boosts, anon boost or tracked boost? The standard default could be anon with a hover option for tracked, with the default being a setting that can be flipped.
Downvoting has always been used as an easy disagree button in every platform that has ever had it. Why not stop pretending it means something else and just embrace how it will inevitably be used anyway?
because we are building something new here and we don’t need to keep this “always been used as” policy. it’s up to us to choose how it’s gonna be used in here.
I don’t know if you were on mastodon when the twitter migration happened. the people from twitter embraced the fediverse values, and most didn’t fight to bring the twitter behaviour into it. it’s refreshing for everyone and it can be a safe and welcoming place.
not everything is perfect, far from it, but we can try to make it better.
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