Kbin noob here - Is it the intended experience to take 2 clicks to open an image? (one to open the thread, then another to open the image)
Bonus question: How do you collapse comments? Some threads are busy and hard to navigate without this.
As a two week user, this is my experience. There is also no way to collapse comments... Yet. Someone has wonderfully coded it and shared with the devs but it has yet to be pushed to the main branch yet.
With the huge influx of users this past month they are in triage mode. Just please be patient with the product, Reddit was new at one point too!
Also there's really a UX problem with images (which appears to be fixed at testing instances) but, for now, you can enable "Auto media preview" on settings, so you don't need to click them.
A lot of these issues are open on the codeberg dev tracker - In the meantime, check out /m/kbinStyles for a bunch of user created userscripts that fix a lot of the issues people have with the UI/UX.
There is also no way to collapse comments...
Especially check out: @Artillect's Improved collapsible comments
As a two week user, this is my experience.
You can expand the image without clicking into the thread by using the little generic picture icon.
I recommend these scripts for a much better experience:
https://kbin.social/m/kbinStyles/t/27201/kbin-enhancement-script-QOL-updates-for-the-kbin-UI
https://kbin.social/m/kbinStyles/t/105421/Kbin-Usability-Pack-0-2-2-Now-with-settings
Excellent! Collapsing comments is a must
I'm too lazy to look it up rn but there's a tampermonkey userscript to put the comment box at the top of the page and let you collapse comments
if you open the settings gear just under your name in the upper right, you can select auto media preview to yes and you will not need to click in a thread to see
And this is how you accidentally pop a titty on your timeline at the office.
I haven't been brave enough to try kbin at work. I knew the settings enough to prevent that with reddit but still learning this platform.
Been wondering the same, thanks for asking
It still lacks a lot of features including QoL, but keep in mind that it's about 2 months old. When it comes to opening images, Lemmy will give an experience closer to Reddit.
Kbin enhancement script has a bunch of features, including collapsible comments & default states.
I found a better experience was to turn off thumbnails and turn on "Auto media preview"
Like any other service, this all is just some kind of prototyping, until the dust settles. I'm sure the devs will come up with some nice UI/,UX improvements.
(on mobile) Between where you can write a comment and the kbin Meta thing where you choose between threads, microblog people bla, there is a gear symbol.
Here you can turn on infinite scroll, direct loading images, themes etc
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TYSM!
TIL
This is good to know. This needs to be the thing that happens when you click the actual picture. We shouldn't need to know this as a medium-advanced protip.
Though I know they're still working their butts off just to keep the thing floating right now. Lots going on for a small team. One thing at a time!
Clicking thumbnails opened the image for me until they fixed the squished thumbnails issue so I'm thinking it's a bug from that.
I've been here a couple weeks now and did not know that, thank you!
TIL.
Thanks :)
you have to be logged in to see that icon. I learned that as I was going to ask "what icon?! I dont see anything". I guess I was logged out, but when I logged in, the icon appeared.
Excellent, can't believe I didn't see that icon there!