"It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin

Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow and thrive over the past 4 months for one simple reason. If you want to Supercharge K.Bin, then remind yourself of those four little words every day:

### It's the content, stupid.

This should be the defacto slogan of K.Bin - you wanna get people off of Reddit? It's the content, stupid. Stop complaining that Reddit sucks - we KNOW it sucks - but K.Bin won't become the sane alternative if there's nothing to read or interact with, there.

I'm just one person, but I'm doing my part and I know others are doing the same. If we can transition from 1% of the crowd adding new content for the other 99% to lurk and read to 5% of the crowd adding new stuff for 50% of the crowd to respond to and the other 45% to lurk and read, we'll be well on our way to defeating Reddit.

Food for thought - have a great weekend.

8BitFriendly,
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The lack of a mobile app doesn't help ... hope API support arrives soon.

minnieo,
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i gave up months ago trying to get people OFF reddit and 'defeating' reddit will never, ever happen. i say this as someone who 'led' a big part of the boycott. i had a 3k member boycott server and dedicated weeks to the movement. the most we can do is post and try to grow and naturally attract people to kbin/the fediverse. dont make it about beating reddit, make it about making kbin amazing in it's own right, being the best it can be, beating who it was yesterday.

i totally agree with you, though, it's about content and interactions which there is a SEVERE lack of. people complain about that, then they don't post in the mags, and i know not everyone is a content creator but if you want kbin to succeed then you gotta put a little effort in. a singular post, a singular comment, is better than none. its so draining being a mod and being the only fucking one posting lol, you'd know, as youre the primary poster on your scifi mag.

rush,

(very petty, but note that kbin is written either as just “kbin” or stylized like “/kbin” as seen on the project’s homepage)

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