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Hi /kbin! I'm currently working on a small browser extension for /kbin users. (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lixus98@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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This extension helps users subscribed to Lemmy communities by adding an icon before mentions or URLs related to other communities. These mentions can be in the format "!communityname@instance.domain" or through URLs like "https://lemmy.ml/c/memes".

By clicking the icon, users are directed to the kbin URL of that community. However, there's currently a bug preventing it from working on /kbin (ironically), and I've already reported the issue on Git.

I'm in the process of publishing the extension on Firefox and Chrome extension stores, along with making the source code available.

I would appreciate your input on whether you find this extension useful.

Edit: github link: https://github.com/driccio98/kbin-link

Thank you!

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[–] fuzzzerd@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why this isn't default behavior. I'm logged into kbin, as such if someone links another community on a different server, I want to interact with it through kbin, where I'm logged in.

While a browser extension is a great start, that doesn't help mobile users, so again it feels like it's something that should be in the base UI.

This is a great start though, and useful for those folks that can run browser extensions. Here's wishing mobile browsers had more extension support.

[–] ADHDefy@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems really cool! Can't wait to try it out. Are there any plans for a Firefox version in the future?

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! it will work for firefox and chrome

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

That's awesome! I'll def be keeping an eye on this project, then! Thanks for your hard work. :)

[–] Fangleone2526@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can we get a github link? before it even gets on chrome web store or firefox addon store you can still load it as a crx or the firefox equivalent

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

Sure, it's a bit messy but here it is https://github.com/driccio98/kbin-link

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

Good idea! Will this work only with kbin.social, or will we be able to use it with other instances, in future?

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You will be able to choose any instance

[–] hocus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Nice! Thanks for building it!

[–] Cocoa6790@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Keep us updated on it. It sounds useful.

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

seems pretty useful thanks, I've currently been manually pasting in links into kbin search to access them through kbin instance, this will be much more seamless