/kbin meta @kbin.social ThatOneKirbyMain2568 @kbin.social 1 yr. ago

When will a subscriptions list get added?

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