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That_Mad_Scientist @kbin.social

What features you may be missing from reddit would you like to see?

What the title says. I think the site needs to reach critical mass sooner rather than later, and on top of the relatively low activity for now, we want to avoid obstacles to new migration, even if it's small convenience stuff. So, what would make your life easier as a kbin user?

Personally, I know I use the save button a lot for important resources and future reference. Even twitter has bookmarks! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's anywhere to be found. It's also my feeling that a lot of people would prefer the boost feature to be an effect of upvoting instead of a separate button. It makes sense as a kind of "retweet" thing for microblogging, but on the threads side, it doesn't really work with the magazine-centered instead of user-centered feed.

(not sure this is the right place for this discussion, but this is currently the largest mag about kbin itself, above kbin and kbinmeta)

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  • Clicking on links takes you to the article (with a new tab option) instead of the comments section for Kbin. It feels too redundant and inefficient in its current form.

  • Disabling notifications on threads/comments you make would be a big one lol.

    • I miss the ability to do this on a per-thread/comment basis especially.

      Sometimes I just want to be done with a particular discussion; back there, I would be able to disable inbox replies on particular comments without turning off all notifications.

      • Ditto. Hell I made an AskKbin post a week or so ago and I was getting notifications for days, even long after the person had made their comment lol

  • Not in reddit, but if you can figure out how to mark/collapse already read comments by default. This is something usenet had decades ago that nothing else does. It is really hard/annoying to go back to long comments just because you have to wade through so much that you have already read to find the interesting new comments. If KBin could have this in some way I think that would be a killer feature.

  • Some have been suggested already but here's mine:
    Collapse or hide comment thread/child comments.
    Jump to top
    Highlight OP in the comments

    EDIT: Didn't meant to reply to you @bluGill. Still getting used to Kbin.

    • The indent of an OP's replies is a different color and dashed to differentiate from other users. I agree it could be something more prominent though.

  • Not Reddit specifically, but from Reddit Enhancement Suit, like tracking new and edited comments in subscribed posts (and I guess microblogs too, with Kbin Social's scope) and automatic formatting preview.

  • A simple "context" button on comments in one's profile or inbox would be nice instead of having to click "copy url" and paste it back into the address bar to go back to the thread you were talking in.

  • I'd like to see an "other discussions" tab (a list of threads that have the same topic in other subreddits).

  • 2FA. It says it is a feature on the kbin site but I have not found it.

    1. polls, but much more than 6 options, much longer than 7 days, and OP can see results without voting.
    2. be able to see list of what one has upvoted and downvoted.
    3. embed videos, particularly YT, Vimeo, niconico, Wikicommons, Archives, and, of course, Peertube.
    4. be able to crosspost.
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