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DarkThoughts, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
Jaysyn,
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Yes. Is something wrong with that?

Hakaku, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I played around with it but honestly it's a bit of a nightmare to support given all the different Kbin user themes and the differences between desktop and mobile. Kbin is also not stable in the sense that new changes are expected and new themes are still being added. I figured I'd wait until it stabilized and/or until someone came up with a decent design you can easily plug and play.

Lells, in Aside from Trump or Biden, Who do you wanna see as the President of the United States of America?
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Whoever doesn't want the job. Seriously, if you WANT the job, you should immediately be disqualified.

realcaseyrollins, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?

I didn't even know that was a thing, that's kinda cool!

missingno, (edited ) in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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Let's just say graphic design is not my passion.

That said, if anyone who does know how to art wants to do anything with /m/splatoon, /m/fgc, or /m/mahjong, I'd be happy to add you aboard.

sensibilidades, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?

I must be in the minority here, I turned off sub-specific CSS as soon as I could.

FfaerieOxide, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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If I may suggest an alternative:

Rather than, "Why is no one..."

...instead why don't you make an easy to follow tutorial and post an article, "THIS is how you can decorate your magazine using CSS..."

If your goal is to have a more beautiful user experience for all who browse the second would seem more effective at achieving that goal.

If your goal is to humble brag and position your magazine (and coding skills) as superior to those of other mag mods, the first phrasing is the superior way to go about that.

I very much doubt your intent was to talk down to anyone, however, so I would very much advocate your writing up a CSS guide in pursuit of what I presume to be your goals (a vibrant and beautiful library of magazines here on kbin).

Your magazine is very pretty and I commend you for your decorative and coding skills.

Jaysyn, (edited )
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I don't know CSS. I took the automatically generated background CSS (under appearance) & fed it into ChatGTP & told it how I wanted it to look. After a little trial & error to get that right, I tweaked the color codes till I liked them. That's pretty much it.

I definitely wasn't trying to talk down to anyone.

Balssh,

Still, could do a small informative post about how to go about modifying CSS of a magazine. This place is still relatively small and I bet many people don't even know there can be custom CSS (like myself lol).

yunggwailo, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I dont know how lmao

Warped, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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A majority can't even be bothered to post anything in their magazines.

Voyajer, (edited ) in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I didn't realize you could decorate magazines until this post. Do Lemmy users see any custom CSS too?

atocci,
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I just tested and sadly no

EnglishMobster, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I'm just waiting for things to shake out before I start going crazy with CSS.

This website's CSS is more complex than Old Reddit's, and people can easily apply different themes. Without a checkbox to turn CSS off, I can easily break my magazines for others.

atocci, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I didn't even realize that was possible here! I'm definitely going to look into it now, but I also have no idea how CSS works.

mcmxci, (edited ) in How do I migrate my Mastodon account to Kbin? Do you recommend it?

The closest thing to an account migration would be to create a kbin account and follow your previous mastodon follows. You should then be able to see their content in the Microblog tab.

The Magazines tab isn't present on Mastodon and there is no similar function there.

mac, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I appreciate you putting in the effort, but it looks kinda scuffed on mobile

Jaysyn, (edited )
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Need to figure out how to scale the background to the display, apparently.

EDIT: I think I fixed that. Now to fix my other magazines.

May, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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Bc not all of them know how. some people just started magazines bc they were told "is there no magazine for that thing u like? Just make it yourself!" which doesnt necessarily mean they know how to moderate a community or even do custom CSS.

Jaysyn,
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I guess I assumed more reddit mods were coming over.

mrnotoriousman,

I imagine there will be a big influx on the 1st once the apps they use to mod stop working.

CMLVI,
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Some mods are literally just there to moderate. Others were there for CSS stuff and bot functionality. I imagine more of the latter will come over when it becomes unwieldy to do those things on the platform, and hopefully kbin will be more accepting to that functionality in the future.

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