CrystalEYE 28 points 3 years ago

Not really. A magazine is a collection of articles that all are about a certain topic. It is not that hard of a concept to grasp

Plus: The polish dev called his platform kbin = karabin = rifle, the contents of a rifle are stored in a magazyn = magazine. I actually would have loved if the dev had called threads "bullets" / pocisk to keep going with the theme.

EDIT: this info might be wrong, as @minnieo pointed out. kbin is just a reference to the linux sbin folder.

I am more confused with the upvote and down vote buttons on kbin: the upvote is actually favorite, the equivalent to reddits upvote is boost, the downvote seems not to have a real function besides counting the number.

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Frog-Brawler 10 points 3 years ago

I am more confused with the upvote and down vote buttons on kbin: the upvote is actually favorite, the equivalent to reddits upvote is boost, the downvote seems not to have a real function besides counting the number.

TIL... I've been using the upvote the same as I did with reddit.

I've not been able to wrap my head around reputation points either. I've made several comments, a couple of posts, and my reputation has gone from 0 to -1 to +1 to 0 over the course of the week I've been here.

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ThatOneKirbyMain2568 8 points 3 years ago

Right now, boosts increase reputation and downvotes ("reduces") decrease reputation. From what I've heard, this is a mistake from when boosts and upvotes ("favorites") were switched in some way that I don't really understand. Upvotes should be the thing that increases karma, and the fact that they aren't is a bug. The kbin developer has mentioned plans to fix that.

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Hobovision 6 points 3 years ago

I heard boost is +1 reputation and down vote is -1. Kinda wack if you ask me.

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minnieo 9 points 3 years ago

a different persons polish INSTANCE is called karabin. Ernest named this Kbin in reference to linux sbin and magazines in reference to retro video game magazines. dont spread this fake pro gun stuff about ernest please

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CrystalEYE 1 point 3 years ago

@minnieo Oh, sorry. I just read it somewhere in a comment and it made sense. Since there is no official FAQ or help page that explains it, I just accepted it as truth.

@Azzu

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JanoRis 1 point 3 years ago

mhhm, wonder if it would be possible to make a gresemonkey script that unifies everything across the platform.
Including switching the boost and favorite position. The only issue would be the url staying the same and having the /c/ or /m/ folder

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