reiver, 8 months ago

Logging into Kbin for the first time takes me here (shown in the screen shot).

The "/all" page.

#fediverse #kbin #threadiverse

reiver, 8 months ago

You can get to the Kbin "Admin panel" from the menu that is shown when you hover your mouse over (or touch) your username in the top-right of the screen.

The Admin panel starts off by showing you a dashboard. But there are several other pages that make up the Admin panel:

• dashboard
• settings
• users
• pages
• federation

#fediverse #kbin #threadiverse

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reiver, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I don't see a way to turn-off or restricting registrations in the Kbin admin panel.

I wonder if that is a feature that is planned — it seems to be a pretty common feature with Fediverse software nowadays. Lemmy has it, for example.

#fediverse #kbin #threadiverse

reiver, 8 months ago

Kbin seems to support something called:

Mercure
https://mercure.rocks/
https://mercure.rocks/spec

I don't think I have ever heard of Mercure before, but —

There is a setting to turn it on or off in the Admin Panel (at "/admin/settings").

It was already on — so on by default it seems.

#fediverse #kbin #mercure #threadiverse

thisismissem, 8 months ago

@reiver looks to be for realtime streaming..

reiver, 8 months ago

In the Kbin admin panel — there is a "settings" section.

There are 3 sections in the kbin admin panel's "settings" section:

• General
• Meta
• Instance

Both "Meta" and "Instance" have a field called "Title".

It is not clear to me what each of these is for, or what the difference is between them.

Although I realized — if you want the page <title> changed, you need to set Meta's "title". But then — what does Instance's "title" do?

#Fediverse #FediverseUX #kbin #threadiverse

reiver, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

BTW — it isn't clear to me how I should be casing the name of this software.

• kbin — with everything lowercase?
• KBin — with the "K" and "B" uppercase?
• Kbin — with just the "K" uppercase?

...

Originally I wrote it as "kbin". But now I'm seeing "Kbin" used. But I often write "KBin" because that is how I pronounce it.

#fediverse #kbin #threadiverse

reiver, 8 months ago

In the Kbin admin panel — there is a "federation" page.

The only thing I see on the Kbin admin panel's "federation" page is what looks like an input field to add ban instance servers.

It wasn't clear to me how I should enter the information — comma separated, each on its line, etc.

BUT — once I started typing, it became obvious.

#Fediverse #FediverseUX #kbin #threadiverse

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thisismissem, 8 months ago

@reiver I'm pretty sure they don't have it, but they also need a way to see a list of all the instances they're currently federating with, with an easy option to take moderation actions against those instances.

reiver, 8 months ago

In the Kbin admin panel — there is a "pages" page.

There are 5 sub-menu items on this page:

• About
• FAQ
• Contact
• Terms of service
• Privacy policy

None of them seem selected, so it is not clear which of those 5 pages (if any) you about to create or edit — unless you look closely at the path in the URL, and notice it is "/admin/pages/about" (rather than "/admin/pages").

I think it would be better to visually indicate which is selected.

#Fediverse #FediverseUX #kbin #threadiverse

reiver, 8 months ago

In the Kbin admin panel — there is a "settings" page.

There are 3 sections in the kbin admin panel's "settings" section:

• General
• Meta
• Instance

At the top of the "General" section, it seems to give you the option of changing the Internet domain name for the kbin instance server.

...

What happens if you change that?

Will it break federation?

Will it stop responding to HTTP(S) request from the previous Internet domain name?

Is it just cosmetic?

#fediverse #kbin #threadiverse

mrpresidenttom, 8 months ago

@reiver do you know if there's a phone app for it yet? I messed around with it back in the Spring but I primarily used reddit on my phone so I haven't really gone back

Xepher_X, 8 months ago

@mrpresidenttom @reiver

There is an Android app named Artemis for kbin that's in early development. You have to use their kbin instance as there is no official kbin API yet, but it's not a bad app.

https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp

reiver, 8 months ago

@mrpresidenttom

Regarding:
"do you know if there's a phone app for it yet? I messed around with it back in the Spring but I primarily used reddit on my phone so I haven't really gone back"

I haven't tried it myself yet, but I've seen people talk about:

Artemis
https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp

There is also something called:

Tundra for Kbin
https://kbin.social/m/Tundra/t/396839/Tundra-for-Kbin

I don't know anything about it though.

There might be other Kbin apps, too.

#ArtemisApp #kbin #threadiverse #TundraApp

mrpresidenttom, 8 months ago

@reiver Awesome, thanks for the resources. It sounds like the issue these apps are having is there isn't an official API yet, but the maintainer is dealing w/ some personal issues which is why it's been delayed a bit https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/451896