Why is no one decorating their magazines?

So you'd need mods who (1) came over, (2) believe in the platform, (3) believe in the instance, (4) want to do custom CSS, (5) know how to do custom CSS, (6) are willing to put for the effort for a readership that's still fairly small, and (7) feel that the odds of a change that will break their CSS are low.

That's a tall stack of filters, and you may not have a lot of company yet on the other side of it. /m/neverwinternights looks really nice, though. Well done!

I am definitely stuck at #5
- ChatGTP can be pretty useful for this.
- Come on folks, where's that MySpace/Xanga/Geocities spirit‽ Maybe younger folks here weren't active online at that time. Sad we've lost that a bit online. Lots of people learned lots of stuff to make their pages look cool.
- Codecademy can be good if you are just starting out like the first time trying CSS. Probably would wanna do the lessons on html and then CSS but ya. I took already computer science course in school (only intro course yet bc is summer now) and there can teach more stuff, but before then i already did some lessons on codecademy and it helped to have context for the beginning parts of the class.
- I know some CSS. But that just makes me think very hard whether I really want to know more CSS.
Yeah, I'm at 7. With kbin still being actively worked on, basically still a prototype, and then just being exhausted from full stack web development all day, my desire to make something cool that may disappear in a month is just really low.
Mine is 5, being influenced by 4, all being bedrock by 7. That is I I don't know how to do custom CSS(5), and I don't want to learn (4) right now because it'll probably break sooner rather than later (7)
I started m/WNC and I have no idea what a CSS is . On top of that I post things to the magazine and they never show up. I have posted like 3 things today and a few over the last few days and the last thing I have that showed up is like 4 days ago. I don't know what I am doing wrong.

I'm the type to tick the 'Ignore custom css' checkbox, so obviously not everybody's interested in that feature.

Yep, every time. I was on reddit to read the content, not browse myspace lol.
I haven't found that option yet.
- Oh no, that doesn't exist here yet. I was referring to the option in old reddit

I appreciate you putting in the effort, but it looks kinda scuffed on mobile

Need to figure out how to scale the background to the display, apparently.
EDIT: I think I fixed that. Now to fix my other magazines.

If I may suggest an alternative:

Rather than, "Why is no one..."

...instead why don't you make an easy to follow tutorial and post an article, "THIS is how you can decorate your magazine using CSS..."

If your goal is to have a more beautiful user experience for all who browse the second would seem more effective at achieving that goal.

If your goal is to humble brag and position your magazine (and coding skills) as superior to those of other mag mods, the first phrasing is the superior way to go about that.

I very much doubt your intent was to talk down to anyone, however, so I would very much advocate your writing up a CSS guide in pursuit of what I presume to be your goals (a vibrant and beautiful library of magazines here on kbin).

Your magazine is very pretty and I commend you for your decorative and coding skills.

I don't know CSS. I took the automatically generated background CSS (under appearance) & fed it into ChatGTP & told it how I wanted it to look. After a little trial & error to get that right, I tweaked the color codes till I liked them. That's pretty much it.
I definitely wasn't trying to talk down to anyone.
- Still, could do a small informative post about how to go about modifying CSS of a magazine. This place is still relatively small and I bet many people don't even know there can be custom CSS (like myself lol).

A majority can't even be bothered to post anything in their magazines.

I'm just waiting for things to shake out before I start going crazy with CSS.

This website's CSS is more complex than Old Reddit's, and people can easily apply different themes. Without a checkbox to turn CSS off, I can easily break my magazines for others.

Bc not all of them know how. some people just started magazines bc they were told "is there no magazine for that thing u like? Just make it yourself!" which doesnt necessarily mean they know how to moderate a community or even do custom CSS.

I guess I assumed more reddit mods were coming over.
- Some mods are literally just there to moderate. Others were there for CSS stuff and bot functionality. I imagine more of the latter will come over when it becomes unwieldy to do those things on the platform, and hopefully kbin will be more accepting to that functionality in the future.
- I imagine there will be a big influx on the 1st once the apps they use to mod stop working.

I didn't realize you could decorate magazines until this post. Do Lemmy users see any custom CSS too?

I just tested and sadly no

I must be in the minority here, I turned off sub-specific CSS as soon as I could.

I got some basic theming set up at my magazine after looking up what CSS is.

Nice gradient!
Looks good!
Can you share your code for that? It looks really good! If you're okay with it, I'd like to copy it and tweak a bit for my own magazine.
- Edit: Added a comment and updated the option bar to match the navbar.
  Sure, here you go! I've never done anything like this before so it's probably a formatting disaster, but I've done my best to clean it a bit and add some comments about what does what here. This is what I've come up with after a few hours of just poking around with the inspect element feature and reading some tutorials:
  / Navbar /
  header {
  background: linear-gradient(to top right, rgba(229, 0, 32, .8) , rgba(242, 151, 57, .8));
  box-shadow: 0px 4px 10px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
  backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
  position: relative; z-index: 4001
  }
  / Page background image /
  middle {
  background: url(https://toaru-project.com/railgunt/coresys/images/main/common/logot.svg) no-repeat center center fixed;
  background-size: contain;
  }
  / Post box transparency /
  .section {
  opacity: 0.96;
  }
  / kbin footer background /
  footer {
  background: linear-gradient(to top right, rgba(229, 0, 32, 1) , rgba(242, 151, 57, 1));
  }
  / The little arrow button in the bottom right that takes you back to the top of the page /
  scroll-top {
  background: linear-gradient(to top right, rgba(229, 0, 32, .8) , rgba(242, 151, 57, .8));
  box-shadow: 0px 4px 10px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
  backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
  }
  / Options bar /
  options {
  background: linear-gradient(to top right, rgba(229, 0, 32, .8) , rgba(242, 151, 57, .8));
  box-shadow: 0px 4px 10px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);
  backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
  position: relative
  }
  / upvote color /
  .vote .active.voteup button {
  color: rgba(242, 151, 57);
  }
  / Media viewer background blur /
  .goverlay {
  background: rgba(0,0,0,.5);
  backdrop-filter: blur(15px);
  }

Probably because most people don't know how to use CSS and there isn't much resources for beginners.

Is this really the look you were going for..?

Yes. Is something wrong with that?

I've done some decorating over at https://kbin.social/m/ArcBrowser. Not done yet, but for Arc Browser users, the colors will adjust to match your browser theme!

ArcBrowser

Fancy!

I played around with it but honestly it's a bit of a nightmare to support given all the different Kbin user themes and the differences between desktop and mobile. Kbin is also not stable in the sense that new changes are expected and new themes are still being added. I figured I'd wait until it stabilized and/or until someone came up with a decent design you can easily plug and play.

I didn't even realize that was possible here! I'm definitely going to look into it now, but I also have no idea how CSS works.

I did it, waiting for the results. Still new to CSS, but I used ChatGPT and it worked pretty well.

As a magazine having a custom CSS isn't important for whether I decide to interact with a community, I'm much more focused on other methods of gathering an audience and activity which isn't just me posting over and over.

I did not know that is was possible. Maybe I will play around with it but I am kinda afraid of making everything ugly.

Feels a bit like myspace looking through all these.

I have /m/learnesperanto and I am slowly working on sprucing up the CSS. So far all I’ve really done is add a green bottom border to some link hovers in the sidebar.

I dont know how lmao

I'm a mod. My subreddit (kbin.social/m/bestof) will not get a facelift any time soon, I don't think. Aren't people expecting to customize their own view of all communities?