/kbin meta

16 readers

2 users here now

Magazine dedicated to discussions about the kbin itself. Provide feedback, ask questions, suggest improvements, and engage in conversations related to the platform organization, policies, features, and community dynamics. ---- * Roadmap 2023 * m/kbinDevlog * m/kbinDesign

founded 1 year ago

435

/kbin - preview of upcoming changes (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ernest@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

83 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hi there, in the upcoming kbin releases, I will be describing the changes along with author tags, but for now, you can check out what's happening here: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/activity, as well as my personal feed: https://ernest.dev

Today, two test instances will be created where we will be looking for bugs for some time, and then the changes will be rolled out to kbin.social and hopefully other instances as well :)

I want to accept as many pull requests as possible, currently, there are still 50 open ones. I'm also following your posts and adding new things to the to-do list.

Have a nice day!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] albatros@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nice!

The PWA rotation issue is really annoying, happy to see this will be fixed. :)

[–] Cyzaine@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Definitely a big annoyance point for me!

[–] mr47@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this about the PWA rotating when auto rotation is set to off? Sounds like a bug on the device, as it's not happening to me.

[–] lml@remy.city 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That might be android only, I'm not sure. I remember seeing a pull request about it having to do with something in the PWA manifest.

[–] mr47@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I'm on Android 13 with Firefox, and haven't noticed the issue. Tried specifically to disable the autorotation, rotate the phone while kbin was running - and nothing (it does rotate when autorotation is on). I installed the PWA about a week ago.

[–] lml@remy.city 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like that's been fixed actually (if your instance is up to date enough, that was merged in 5 hours ago). I had to reinstall the PWA for it to take effect.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just uninstalled and reinstalled /kbin on my Realme X3 - it still rotates irrespective of Android setting. Guess I'll have to lay on my back a bit longer hehe.

[–] lml@remy.city 2 points 1 year ago

Bummer. Yeah, I think kbin.social hasn't gotten those changes added in yet. I've just been pulling the new updates once/twice a day onto my instance. It has broken things a couple times though so I get why the larger instances are waiting for actual 'releases' of kbin.

[–] CosmicApe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I install the PWA?

[–] lml@remy.city 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In your browser, if you go into the menu there should be something like 'Install', 'Add to Homescreen', something like that.

On chrome it is add to homescreen, but there is also a pop-up at the bottom that gives an install button. The browser menu should be the easiest spot though.

It creates a shortcut on your homescreen and allows the site to run in full screen mode, so it acts like a native app.

[–] CosmicApe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I've been looking for an option on the site, not the browser. Thank you!

[–] Scio@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@mr47 This issue is browser engine specific rather than device specific, and (annoyingly) falls within valid interpretation of the web manifest standards so it's not really a bug for the browser engines either. The fix is also within the standards, so that's good.

[–] mr47@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I see. I guess Firefox works correctly.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Are you using Chrome or Firefox or something else? I don't see this on FF.

[–] SpicyPeaSoup@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Oh thank god, I thought it was a "feature" and here to stay.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which issue? Don't see it in the links and I'm not seeing anything I can think of that sounds like that (I'm using the PWA on Android, but using Firefox so maybe that's why)

[–] albatros@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox doesn't have this problem,only chromium browsers.