Today, I wanted to introduce you to Categories - a new feature that is essentially a multi-mags view. A new tab will appear in the user panel where you can create categories (public or private) and then add magazines to them (local or remote). In the magazine listing, there will be another tab that will list public categories created by users (which can be liked - in the future, this will transform into a subscription form). In the category view, all filters and sorting options are applied, and it also collaborates with the Aggregate view.

Additionally, I’ve patched several annoying bugs - media preview from comments by clicking the icon, improved navigation in the aggregate view, remote magazine listing in the content submission form, and a few others.

These changes will be implemented on the instance tonight. With this note, I conclude the month, and starting tomorrow, I’ll be 100% focused on developing the new ActivityPub module and matters related to instance moderation.

You can track changes in the official repository
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

or on Github
https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

  • leadore@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I feel stupid, is this currently available? It seems yes, some people say they’ve made one, but I can’t seem to find either a “Categories” or “Collections” option. Sorry, I don’t know which area is called the “user panel”, but I’ve looked at the tabs across the top, and in all the menus (+, channels, profile).

    I did see the collections tab on the Magazines page though, and I see Random Collections in the right side panel, just can’t find where to create my own category/collection.

    • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      Go to settings and click the collections tab. Tbh, it feels a bit hidden rn, and I’d love to see at least some sort of link on the Magazines page in the future.

      • leadore@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        Thanks but I looked in Settings. There aren’t what I would call “tabs” there, but there are different sections (General, Sub channel, Threads, etc) but nothing called Collections.

        WAIT, never mind, I found it in the other “settings” I forgot there are two different places for Settings. Thank you

    • ernest@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      This is just a prototype, there will probably be some errors to fix ;-) But I want to see how it performs in practice and over time, I will refine the whole thing, and that will take a bit more time.

      • gibandaley@kbin.social
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        11 months ago

        Yeah, I favorited my private collection (not sure why I did that…) and it seems to have permanently made it public, no big deal in this case, but I feel bad ‘squatting’ on collection slug.

        • ernest@kbin.socialOP
          3·
          11 months ago

          Actually, I named it incorrectly. I treated as private collections those that don’t appear in the listing, but you can still share them with friends. I changed it so that they are truly private, and I will add another status someday - non-public.

          • gibandaley@kbin.social
            2·
            11 months ago

            Thanks! Looks like logged out the collection isn’t accessible at kbin.social/c/collection-name anymore which is excellent, but is still accessible there when logged in (unexpected, though perhaps only accessible to my account, but I feel bad I might be squatting on a nice collection name) and is also accessible at kbin.social/u/gibandaley/c/collection-name (expected)