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Two requests for microblog incorporation into the main feed. (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First off, I absolutely love that microblogs are a part of my main feed now.

I do have a couple requests to consider, I apologize if this isn't the place to post such a thing.

I think an option to keep microblog replies inherently collapsed would keep the feed from feeling too cluttered.
Perhaps microblog posts could be colored a little differently from threads to make them more easily distinguishable at a glance?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That makes sense. I’m actually not used to microblogs, and I never actually got into Twitter, so the distinguishing characteristics don’t really stand out to me as much. I think the color variation would help me better process what I’m looking at.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I think the color variation would help me better process what I’m looking at.

You can change the color yourself btw. The traditional method is to install the Stylus extension/addon, ~~but I think kbin now lets you define your own styling in your profile settings, though I haven't tried it.~~ (tried it now and this doesn't really seem possible there, has the same selector deletion issues as magazine css)

In the HTML code, microblog posts and threads are represented differently. Posts are blockquote, while threads are article. This makes it easy to restyle them via userstyles.

So you should be able to just

div#content {
    > article {
        /* thread styling */
    }
    > blockquote {
        /* microblog post styling */
       background-color: red;
    }
}

You can also define the color in rgb rgb(255,0,0) or hsl (hsl(0,100%,50%)).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I am very pleased that this is possible, but I don’t even know what words to use to even ask how to do something like that.

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