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So you'd need mods who (1) came over, (2) believe in the platform, (3) believe in the instance, (4) want to do custom CSS, (5) know how to do custom CSS, (6) are willing to put for the effort for a readership that's still fairly small, and (7) feel that the odds of a change that will break their CSS are low.
That's a tall stack of filters, and you may not have a lot of company yet on the other side of it. /m/neverwinternights looks really nice, though. Well done!
I am definitely stuck at #5
ChatGTP can be pretty useful for this.
Hmm what about Google bard ?
Okay, so why am I being reduced just because I mentioned Bard?
@Saturdaycat That's only available from 18 years old+ (you have to give google your age/credit card data) and is otherwise tracked by Google. Is not so much better than the comparatively unrestricted Bing Chat
Yeah unfortunately I'm already invested in the Google system so that's why I have Bard, not sure why you'd reduce my comment just because I mentioned bard
Why do people care about reduces at all
Because it would make my comment appear to be unreliable or controversial, but it doesn't allow me to express any sort of argument for or against any avenue of disagreement. Simple as that.
I've not used it personally.
Following :) I know nothing about code and if Bard is helpful, it would be amazing!
I'll test it out with bard!
Another reduce - just because I have Bard access and am going to use it to test CSS doesn't mean I'm telling anyone else to use bard. Reducing my comment for nothing?
Codecademy can be good if you are just starting out like the first time trying CSS. Probably would wanna do the lessons on html and then CSS but ya. I took already computer science course in school (only intro course yet bc is summer now) and there can teach more stuff, but before then i already did some lessons on codecademy and it helped to have context for the beginning parts of the class.
Yeah, that's gonna be difficult. Lol I want to do it, but it's a tall ask to work full-time, take care of my own personal stuff, hobbies, and then also learn basic HTML and CSS just do decorate a landing page for a forum.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to do it. It's just far down on the priority list and will probably be there for the foreseeable future. Would absolutely welcome anyone to help with it though! Currently best I can do is an icon lol
Come on folks, where's that MySpace/Xanga/Geocities spirit‽ Maybe younger folks here weren't active online at that time. Sad we've lost that a bit online. Lots of people learned lots of stuff to make their pages look cool.
I absolutely LOVED GeoCities and totally miss that everyone-is-an-indie vibe.
Oh jeebus my first website online was Xanga, and I copied the shit out of code back then to bling it up
Haha, definitely! Had to have that autoplaying music when people came to your page!
Hell yeah! Custom everything and just blast your favorite music lol
I know some CSS. But that just makes me think very hard whether I really want to know more CSS.
Yeah, I'm at 7. With kbin still being actively worked on, basically still a prototype, and then just being exhausted from full stack web development all day, my desire to make something cool that may disappear in a month is just really low.
Mine is 5, being influenced by 4, all being bedrock by 7. That is I I don't know how to do custom CSS(5), and I don't want to learn (4) right now because it'll probably break sooner rather than later (7)
I'm the type to tick the 'Ignore custom css' checkbox, so obviously not everybody's interested in that feature.
Yep, every time. I was on reddit to read the content, not browse myspace lol.
I haven't found that option yet.
Oh no, that doesn't exist here yet. I was referring to the option in old reddit
I'm in the same boat. So I just threw together a quick userscript which removes custom CSS on magazines:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469581-kbin-social-remove-custom-styles
You'll need Greasemonkey, Tampermonkey (browser addons) or similar to install the script.
I appreciate you putting in the effort, but it looks kinda scuffed on mobile
Need to figure out how to scale the background to the display, apparently.
EDIT: I think I fixed that. Now to fix my other magazines.
A majority can't even be bothered to post anything in their magazines.
If I may suggest an alternative:
Rather than, "Why is no one..."
...instead why don't you make an easy to follow tutorial and post an article, "THIS is how you can decorate your magazine using CSS..."
If your goal is to have a more beautiful user experience for all who browse the second would seem more effective at achieving that goal.
If your goal is to humble brag and position your magazine (and coding skills) as superior to those of other mag mods, the first phrasing is the superior way to go about that.
I very much doubt your intent was to talk down to anyone, however, so I would very much advocate your writing up a CSS guide in pursuit of what I presume to be your goals (a vibrant and beautiful library of magazines here on kbin).
Your magazine is very pretty and I commend you for your decorative and coding skills.
I don't know CSS. I took the automatically generated background CSS (under appearance) & fed it into ChatGTP & told it how I wanted it to look. After a little trial & error to get that right, I tweaked the color codes till I liked them. That's pretty much it.
I definitely wasn't trying to talk down to anyone.
Bc not all of them know how. some people just started magazines bc they were told "is there no magazine for that thing u like? Just make it yourself!" which doesnt necessarily mean they know how to moderate a community or even do custom CSS.
I'm just waiting for things to shake out before I start going crazy with CSS.
This website's CSS is more complex than Old Reddit's, and people can easily apply different themes. Without a checkbox to turn CSS off, I can easily break my magazines for others.
I didn't realize you could decorate magazines until this post. Do Lemmy users see any custom CSS too?
I just tested and sadly no
I got some basic theming set up at my magazine after looking up what CSS is.
Nice gradient!
I must be in the minority here, I turned off sub-specific CSS as soon as I could.
Probably because most people don't know how to use CSS and there isn't much resources for beginners.
I did it, waiting for the results. Still new to CSS, but I used ChatGPT and it worked pretty well.
As a magazine having a custom CSS isn't important for whether I decide to interact with a community, I'm much more focused on other methods of gathering an audience and activity which isn't just me posting over and over.
I played around with it but honestly it's a bit of a nightmare to support given all the different Kbin user themes and the differences between desktop and mobile. Kbin is also not stable in the sense that new changes are expected and new themes are still being added. I figured I'd wait until it stabilized and/or until someone came up with a decent design you can easily plug and play.
I've done some decorating over at https://kbin.social/m/ArcBrowser. Not done yet, but for Arc Browser users, the colors will adjust to match your browser theme!
I didn't even realize that was possible here! I'm definitely going to look into it now, but I also have no idea how CSS works.
I'm a mod. My subreddit (kbin.social/m/bestof) will not get a facelift any time soon, I don't think. Aren't people expecting to customize their own view of all communities?
Also, do the visuals persist to all of the fediverse? How does your community look on kbin, lemmy, etc?
