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idkbin 1.3.7 - A few small changes to make kbin look a tad better

userstyles.world idkbin by NeighborlyFedora

A few small visual improvements for kbin.

After seeing all of the cool userstyles on here, I decided I'd have a go at learning some CSS and making a userstyle myself.

Here's an example of what it looks like.

I'm pretty new to this stuff, so feedback is very appreciated.

1.0.0

  • Thumbnails are on the left of threads instead of the right.
  • Media previews are more limited in height.
  • Media previews are better integrated with their articles.
  • Favorites (upvotes) and reduces (downvotes) have more contrasting colors.
  • The boost button turns yellow when clicked.
  • The magazine name in the header is colored magenta.
  • Magazine names are more consistently bolded.
  • Pinned posts are distinguished with a magenta outline.
  • Links and buttons have a smoother transition when hovered over.
  • Magazine icons are square and smaller.

1.1.0

  • A ton of different settings are now available (e.g., toggling features, changing colors).
  • The subscribe button is magenta when clicked.
  • The block button is red when clicked.
  • Your username is colored yellow on your posts and comments.
  • (Disabled by default) The magazine name on the sidebar is magenta.
  • (Disabled by default) Inline magazine names are magenta.

1.1.1

  • Magazine icon size can now be changed in settings.
  • Whether the magazine stretches with its icon size can be toggled in settings.

1.2.0

  • The code is (hopefully) compatible with the layout changes rolled out on July 5.
  • The search and add post buttons now have text.
  • Image previews have a darker background.

1.2.1

  • The darker background for image previews differs depending on theme.

1.2.2

  • In the comments of a thread or post, OP's username is colored magenta.
  • The text for the search and post icons are properly aligned.
  • The select channel icon is properly aligned with the other icons.

1.2.3

  • The show preview button is now colored.
  • (Disabled by default) The blurred background of thumbnails can be removed.

1.2.4

  • This style's image preview changes now work with the new kbin update.
  • The user follow and user block buttons are now colored when clicked.

1.2.5

  • The text in crossposts is no longer shifted to the right.
  • The tops of image previews are no longer slightly cut off.
  • Empty image previews no longer lead to weird thread border stuff.

1.2.6

  • The new comment marker has been tweaked to work with rounded edges.
  • The new comment marker has been recolored.
  • Comments by OP now have a correct left border corresponding to the comment level. [Default Kbin styling has a special border for OP comments, but idkbin disables this since the name is recolored instead.]

1.2.6.1

  • Your own comments now have a correct left border corresponding to the comment level. [Default Kbin styling has a special border for your comments & threads, but idkbin disables this since the name is recolored instead.]

1.3.0

  • Sort options on thread pages and tabs on the magazines/collections page now have icons.
  • The boost button now has an icon.
  • The show preview button has been tweaked to look more like a button and is now colored when the preview is active.
  • The collection subscribe/favorite button is now colored when clicked.
  • Official collections now have a checkmark next to their names.
  • Danger buttons (e.g., account deletion, collection deletion) are now recolored.
  • The new comment marker has been tweaked to work with rounded edges.
  • The new comment marker can be recolored.
  • Comment lines are now solid and slightly thicker.
  • There is now a comment line for descendants of first-level comments.
  • Toggles and color settings for all of the above have been implemented.
  • Image previews are now clipped by the bottom rounded edges.
  • Upvote & downvoting recoloring can now be toggled.
  • The smooth fade added to many elements by this userstyle can be toggled.
  • A bug has been fixed which caused fades on different parts of an object to not occur at the same time.
  • The text next to the search and add icons in the header are now disabled by default.
  • Probably some other stuff I forgot.

1.3.1

  • Sort option icons have been added to places where they were missing (e.g., comments, microblog feed).
  • The tabs on the activity bar (boosts, reduces, and favorites) now have icons.
  • The scroll-to-top button has been tweaked. This can be toggled in settings.
  • The scroll-to-top button now fades in and out when the Smooth Fade setting is enabled.
  • Layer shenanigans caused by my braindead solution to cleaning up the first comment line have been fixed. Hopefully what I have now works as it should.

1.3.2

  • Users with no avatar now have an icon in comments instead of an empty box. This can be toggled in settings.
  • An oversight has been corrected that caused the boosts tab on the activity bar of microblog comments to not have an icon.
  • When viewing the activity of a thread comment, there is now space between it and the activity bar to match when you view activity of other things.

1.3.2.1

  • Sort option icons now work correctly with the new sort options on user profile pages.

1.3.2.2

  • An oversight has been corrected that caused sort option icons to not work correctly on different page numbers.
  • An oversight has been corrected that caused official collection checkmarks to be missing in certain places.

1.3.3

  • The more button has been replaced with an ellipsis icon. This can be toggled in settings.
  • The no avatar icon is now user-large instead of user-large-slash, as the latter would make more sense for a deleted account.
  • An oversight has been corrected that caused sort option icons to not work correctly on search and tag pages.

1.3.4

  • An icon has been added next to the expand/collapse button on microblog posts. This can be toggled in settings.
  • A visual glitch with comments on certain pages has been fixed.

1.3.5

  • There are now three options for the microblog post expand/collapse icon: Angles (new default), Carets, or None.
  • The comment wrap button now has a new icon. There are three options for this in settings: Angles (new default), Carets, or None.
  • There are now three options for the more button icon: Ellipsis, Lemmy, or None.
  • The list of boosters in a microblog post now uses a boost icon instead of a plus. This can be toggled in settings.

1.3.6

  • The dropdown menus in the header (i.e., the add, channel select, and avatar menus) now have icons in them. This can be toggled in settings.
  • The "None" option for the comment wrap button icon setting has been renamed to "Default".

1.3.7

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Released idkbin 1.3.0! — A few small visual improvements for Kbin

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  • hey I like it!
    Having the Media Preview on the left side feels natural and easyer.

    maybe adding some options would be nice ? like the kbin enhancement script does?

    How did you start learning this ?

    • Glad you like it! Options seem nice, though I'll have to look into how to do that.

      I learned CSS through a combination of looking at other userstyles, using Inspect to view kbin's CSS, and looking at CSS documentation. I pretty quickly got an idea of how CSS worked and how to learn new stuff. Once you learn the basics of a language, all it takes is a web search or a look through documentation to figure out how to accomplish something.

      • cool - im thinkting of starting with this aswell.

        maybe we can get some sort of documentation going for this process

  • Thank you very much!

    I made a clone for myself with prefer-color-scheme and colored comment indents.

    Edit: The colors are based on Quasar.