Like the title says, if you want to upvote something on KBin, you should use the Boost link, not the upvote button (Why? Don’t know…)

The upvote button doesn’t seem to do much, but Boost accomplishes what Reddit’s upvote did. So if you’re looking to encourage a post, use the Boost link.

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    1 year ago

    @HamSwagwich

    This is a result of the original design. Kbin, up until just before the peak traffic hit, was using boosts as upvotes and favorites/likes were just below the post/thread (where boost sits now). Lemmy does it the way it is now (likes = upvotes) so Ernest changed it to match Lemmy behavior. But just as he changed it, he hadn’t changed the calculation for reputation to match when the server nearly melted down and he has to spend all his time just trying to keep the site alive by himself.

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        1 year ago

        So sometime in the future an upvote will be used to score the post and get it on the “frontpage”, and a Boost is just like a save feature to save posts to my microblog?

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          i wouldnt call boost a save feature per say, but since we arent on mastodon it pretty much looks like one so i guess you can call it that lol. yes, eventually the reputation will be fixed and upvotes will affect it as it should, its just not a priority for now

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    1 year ago

    the dev of kbin will be changing this. so up/downvotes are what affect your reputation. It’s just not a priority right now

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      Do we know if there have been any releases since the influx of users? Or are they just focusing on backend stuff still?

      There’s still a lot of long hanging fruit *COUGHcollapsingthreads that would be great to have addressed sooner rather than later.

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        1 year ago

        they

        It’s just one guy. We were a bit worried if he was even sleeping when the first big wave hit and he kept everything up by cloudflare and prayer.

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            Yeah there are a bunch of us in the dev chat now. Some of us have set up our additional kbin instances such as myself. I’m still looking through the code and getting up to speed but hope to contribute to the main code base soon. (Right now I’m experimenting with some features I wrote on my instance)

            So yes, it’s mainly been Ernest up until this point but he is starting to get additional support from the community :)

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                1 year ago

                Thank you! I’m excited to see the site grow as well. We seem to be building a nice place to hangout and have good discussions unlike the site that shall not be named.

                (Also love your username)

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                  Yes, there is a very strong team there now, and I will gradually delegate responsibility in certain areas. I need to focus on my own milestones. However, I want to do it slowly because there are many pitfalls here that are a consequence of kbin being a side project. But the organization on Matrix was amazing, and I didn’t even lift a finger for it.

                  @BedSharkPal @Upvotes_Kills_Birds

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        You can have a look here to see a test instance with some of the things that are coming, Ernest (the admin) has been merging in a range of tickets including bug fixes, UI improvements and other bits.

        There seems to be an ever growing backlog of feature requests and bug fixes in the issues list but a fair bit is getting sorted out behind the scenes.

        I’m mostly focused on UI/UX for mobile.

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    1 year ago

    In my understanding, boost is retweet and upvote is upvote. So upvote is the Reddit upvote but it doesn’t change your reputation?

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    Why doesn’t Kbin have the [+] and [-] buttons for collapsing or opening comment threads? Or, if it does, where can I find that setting?

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    I do wish there was a bit more privacy involved with boosting though, as of right now anyone can see what I boost.

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      for me, the main selling point of kbin over lemmy was the transparency in user interactions on here. the last straw on the camel’s back over at lemmy for me was seeing blatant vote manipulation hiding behind the end-user anonymity; kept an eye on some accounts that would instantly always get the same number of upvotes, dependent on the specific account, less than 3-5 seconds after posting. it was always some single-digit amount (I assume to not get flagged by the system), but that’s all it takes to signal others to feel safer upvoting it.

      the same can be done likewise to bury others’ content that they can view as competition to what they want seen, multiple early downvotes can act as a subconscious deterrent to others

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    Not crazy about the design. An upvote should be an upvote. If the upvote is useless, why is it even there?

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    Took me a moment to figure out what you were even talking about. The boost button is translated as “upvoto” in Portuguese, so that doesn’t help…

    Maybe it should be something like “promover” (promote).