When will a subscriptions list get added? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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/kbin has been getting some great updates lately (e.g., improved magazine search, translation improvements, backend stuff that I'm too stupid to understand). But this all has me wondering: when might we see a list of subscribed magazines?

Of course, there are a few userscripts that add subscriptions panels, and tmk frontend stuff isn't particularly high priority. Even so, a built-in subscriptions list would lower the barrier to entry for a lot of people. Is it something that might be added soon, or it will be a long while?

@ernest If you don't mind, I'd like your input on this

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[-] e569668@fedia.io 11 points 1 year ago

There's a page to see only entries from subscribed magazines: https://kbin.social/sub you can get to it by the hamburger on the top bar
And a page to see the magazines you subscribe to: https://kbin.social/settings/subscriptions/magazines which appears in user settings

Do you mean something else by list of subscribed magazines?

[-] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Ooo, I had no idea about the second one. That's what I mean by a subscriptions list, but… why is it in a settings tab? That's super unintuitive and means you have to go to the settings page and select a specific tab just to navigate to a subscribed magazine.

[-] RoboRay@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, this list of subscribed magazines should be in a panel in the right sidebar (it's a heck of a lot more valuable than panels for random magazines and random posts) instead of buried several levels down in menus.

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@RoboRay - there's a link to it right there in your profile, super easy to use.

@ThatOneKirbyMain2568

[-] Teppic@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

On a mobile it takes me 6 screen presses, some of which are scrolling sideways... I agree it's not hard, but it's also not fast.

As it is I've created a separate shortcut my home screen, this is quicker & easier to access.

I think putting a subscriptions link above 'Notifications' in the profile drop-down menu would be quite helpful.

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I agree we need the function but how does it take you 6 presses??

For me on mobile it's 1) click on my name > 2) swipe menu sideways > 3)click on subscriptions.

Or from the top menu 1) click on my picture > 2) click profile> 3) swipe > 4) click on subscriptions

[-] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That's better, but it's still quite unintuitive and unnecessary. You have to go the profile page and (if you're on mobile) scroll right to something you can't see to find your subscriptions. I way prefer using a subscriptions panel (which I'm doing with a userscript), and it rlly should be a vanilla feature.

[-] RoboRay@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's there, yes, but not "super easy to use" as it requires multiple clicks to get to it.

The list of subscriptions should be exposed directly in the main view.

[-] shazbot@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Take a look at KES and the option Navbar > Add subs to navbar, which puts a direct link at the top of the page.

[-] Pamasich@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There was an attempt at implementing this, but it seems like the pull request was forgotten and the issue on the matter closed (because the pull request exists). If you don't get a response here, you might want to ask in one of those two places about the status to revive them.

[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

I agree. This is such basic functionality that we use frequently and deserves higher priority.

The current subscription list under profile is very cumbersome to use because it is paginated and there is no sort option.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It is in the dev plan afaik. Until them have a look at /m/kbinstyles. It is a magazine for greasemonkey scripts that improve the user experience. On mobile, or I would post a direct link. I am using the subscriptions panel from there and it works okay. Of course as a temp fix until it is implemented in the main code base.

[-] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been using this script that creates a bar on the left hand side of the browser that includes my subs. This should work for you.

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