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Introducing Kbin Link: Navigate between communities with ease (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by lixus98@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Greetings, kbeans! I wanted to inform you that Kbin Link is now available on the Firefox Extension Store. If you're interested, you can find more information about it here: https://github.com/driccio98/kbin-link.

Kbin Link is a browser extension designed to simplify your browsing experience across different online communities. It detects community mentions in the format of "!communityname@lemmy.world" and it recognizes links in the format of "https://lemmy.word/c/memes" across any website and adds a convenient icon at the beginning. This icon allows you to quickly redirect to the corresponding community on Kbin, where you can easily subscribe to it.

Since this is a small project, there may be a few bugs or areas for improvement. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, please let me know by leaving an issue on the GitHub repository.

Edit: Soon on the chrome store too!

Link to firefox store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kbin-link/

Thank you for your support!

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

would be awesome if we could get this integrated natively — do u wanna open a PR or issue to get this in?

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

I’d love it if you could make it available for Safari on the iPhone too :D

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Nice! I'll take a look

[–] pgetsos@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello and thanks for the extension!

While the references ("!....") work fine, the url part does not. For example, clicking links here: https://browse.feddit.de/

Should that work as well or not?

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll take a look to add this as well

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

Thanks, much appreciated!

[–] Auster@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Does it work on Waterfox too? The page says "You need an updated version of Firefox for this extension". Maybe an issue with the difference between Firefox and Waterfox's update naming conventions?

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm really enjoying the fact that all the programmers and techies are here on kbin lol. this is like the third kbin script I've seen made in these past 2 days.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes I also saw someone making a lemmy version based on this one.

[–] cynber@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I'm actually working on a similar one as well! https://lemmy.ca/post/778315

I didn't fork it from the same place as your one, so I tried to make it work based on what I knew how to do. If you would like to collaborate on some of these down the road, I'd be down :)

[–] WorseDoughnut@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the idea, but I feel like something isn't working correctly.

This comment in particular seems to add the icon with the "internal" kbin /m/ link, but their either empty or it throws a 404 error when I try to go there.

Edit: Am i just dumb, and this is still a left over / ongoing issue with kbin's federation in general?

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Something to keep in mind is, if the magazine is not federated yet with your instance you will get a 404.
In that case you have to manually search for that magazine in the search bar. This is not a limitation of the extension but rather how the federation works on kbin and lemmy.
I might add an option to show a magnifying glass icon to automate this process.