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Kbin Familiarity - a theme i made to replicate old reddit on kbin! (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Tanza@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Hi! I joined kbin a few days ago, and found it hard to get used to the new UI, so I made a theme which replicates old Reddit as closely as I can!

To install the theme, you first have to install the Stylus browser addon, then you can install the theme here!

I also highly recommend using the Kbin Usability Pack as well, it adds alot of very helpful things! To be clear I didn't make this.

I hope people find this theme helpful! Please report any bugs by just responding to this... article? or making an issue on the github!

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[–] basic_spud@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This desperately needs to be a built-in option. Old reddit's design was far better than new reddit, why did these (lemmy, kbin) decide to emulate new reddit's trash UI?

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

First...Kbin's UI is IIRC currently in its alpha state. This isn't the finished product. Secondly, the UI is setup in the manner old internet forums used to be organized, with some additional tweeks to prioritize boosted and upvoted topics. Finally, this UI may not emulate Reddit in its final upgrade because it's a different kind of social platform.

I'd just ask people to be patient. There has been a huge influx of users to kbin, and lemmy over the course of the past month and the people behind the scenes have been working tirelessly just to keep up with user/server demand.

[–] basic_spud@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I certainly can understand that. My issue isnt with the overall functionality though, but the absurd waste of empty space. "Old reddit" was far more useful and information dense. I would suggest kbin's default or at least an option be done similarly where way more articles can be seen in a single "screen" without scrolling.

[–] hariette@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I didn't know how much I needed this 😭

[–] Rukongai@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Oh my god. Thank you.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi! I installed it, and a couple pieces of feedback:

when there's an avatar, this gets kinda overlapped
sidebar is way too large when browser is fullscreen on a big monitor, that should get a width constraint

I love this though!

[–] Tanza@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hm, do you have any other themes or changes enabled? i can't seem to replicate the first one. on the second one, how large is your monitor?

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

1, I realized I do, but its a js snippet to remove magazines' custom styles. I disabled and tried again and same thing. For reference though, here's where it's happening
2. atm my firefox window is slightly wider than 1080 pixels.

[–] bron@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is cool for transitioning and all, but here's the thing: if we want to move away from Reddit, we shouldn't be trying to replicate it IMO

[–] Tanza@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

if it feels more natural for people to use i don't see the issue

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

love it

[–] harshvoldy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the great theme. Is there a way to change the top bar show to show magazines/communities that a user has subscribed to, instead of random magazines from kbin that get shown currently? I was a big fan of RES to do that, would definitely love that on kbin. It's probably a make or break feature for me. If I can't easily view contents of individual "magazines" that I subscribe to, I am not sure I would be able to stick around the platform.

[–] Sylveon-Z@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you planning on porting this to Stylish as well? I got confused at first since I had Stylish already installed.

[–] Tanza@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

stylish apparently had some sort of spyware from memory after being bought out to another company, so i'm not going to port it to that, sorry - stylus is just as good and does the same thing

[–] sauerbraten42@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Looks very nice, will test this tomorrow. I am sure they will offer more design options on kbin natively in the future, but it will take some time.

[–] jerome@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh god lord you saved me. Thanks tanza.

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