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Small list of userscripts that improve the Kbin experience (kbin.social)

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

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I've been trying out several userscripts for Kbin recently, which have made the website way more enjoyable than it already was. I wanted to share them with my fellow Kbin users.

To use these scripts, you'll need an userscript manager. I use Greasemonkey on my PC on Firefox myself, and Tampermonkey on my phone. You can find recommendations for your browser on the Greasy Fork home page.

These are the scripts that I've been using:

There are many more interesting scripts on Greasy Fork, like this alternative sidebar.

After installing scripts you like, I recommend checking the settings of the scripts and change the settings to whatever you prefer. The settings can often both be found under the little cog icon on the right side of the page, just like the official Kbin settings.

Feel free to share you favorite userscripts or add-ons and enjoy!

E: @minnieo, the creator of Kbin Kibby Avatars, just shared this very nice userstyle for the side bar to make it look even better.

E2: The author of both Kbin Usability Pack and the Kbin Subscription Panel, @Perry, just fixed the issue I was having with the "alternative sidebar". It is working as intended now and it has some very nice extra functionality and settings. It also works perfectly on mobile. I would recommend trying out both and see which one you like most.

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

like this alternative sidebar which I unfortunately couldn't get to work as intended.

Oh, what problems did you run into? I haven't pushed that many updates lately because I thought it was fairly stable, but perhaps there are still some bugs for certain configurations?

Thinking out loud, there might be some compatibility issues with Greasemonkey specifically. I'm personally using Tampermonkey, but I know that Greasemonkey have a tendency of being a bit troublesome sometimes. I did have to fix a few bugs related to Greasemonkey for the Kbin Usability Pack a while ago.

Anyway, please give me a shout and I'll see if I can get a fix out.

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

Thanks! I already had kES installed, but I just got the floating subs list, and I kind of like it.

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

You're welcome! I really like the sidebar as well! It makes it way easier to see which Magazines I'm subscribed to and to quickly switch to them. Since I've installed that userscript I've been visiting separate Magazines a lot more, instead of just scrolling through my home page.

KUP also goes great with KES so far, they complement each other nicely. Best thing to me about KUP is the inline previews of articles. That was one of my favorite features of RES back on Reddit, so I'm excited to see an equivalent on Kbin :)

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

I'm just thrilled that I discovered last week that TamperMonkey works with Safari, and all four of these scripts installed into it without issue.

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

I didn't even know Safari has extension support nowadays. Great to hear it all works without issue, it's such an improvement!

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

Dunno if it's a weird interaction with other userscripts but the floating subs is kinda weirly overlapping the header bar and generally looks out of place. I also don't see how to pin it, and it seems to refresh the subscribed list all the time instead of caching until I refresh.

I love the idea though, hope it gets an update soon!

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

That's weird, I don't have that issue myself. The only small bug that I've noticed in the floating subs bar, is that it makes the rest of the website slightly less centered when opened. But that resolves itself when I close it again. You could try doing a full (cache) refresh of the webpage (Ctrl+F5). Sometimes that fixes those kind of issues.

E: You could of course also give the alternative sidebar a try. I really like that that sidebar groups magazines/communities with the same name together. However, it wouldn't load my magazines on my system. It just kept spinning a loading icon. Maybe it does work for you, it's worth a try!

[–] Kaldo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is how it looks to me, you can also see the bug with your "OP" tag being displayed multiple times for some reason as well. Tried refresh, tried re-enabling it, still the same. I'm on firefox so might be due to that, dunno.

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

I'm on Firefox as well, so I don't think that is the issue. This is how it looks on my side Example.

This are the settings that I use:

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About the double OP tag: I just noticed that bug too in another thread, but now it seems to be gone again. Maybe it's a one time thing. It's a bit buggy in these early stages anyway, hopefully it will get fixed.

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

Check the thread again, I edited it. The other sidebar I mentioned, which previously didn't work on my machine, has been fixed and I even prefer it over the already awesome Floating bar. It might work around your issue.

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

Oh yeah I like the other one much more, thanks!
edit: Short update - I really wish I could show favorites instead of recently viewed as a separate group but other than that, the sidebar works and performs well!

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