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waterloo·WaterloobyCoderKat

What are y'all doing for Canada day?

There's once again separate Canada day events in Waterloo Park and Downtown Kitchener (and probably several other places, too).

Last year I went to the Waterloo Park one mostly because of the drone light show (which seems to be returning this year), but found that they were waaaay overloaded for food options.

What were the other events like last year and where are you planning to go this year?

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Squirtle Community Day Classic (July 2023) | Pokémon GO Hub

On July 9th, 2023, Squirtle returns to Pokémon GO for a Community Day Classic event, giving players an opportunity to evolve a high-level Blastoise with Hydro Cannon once again. During the event, Squirtle will appear more frequently in the wild, and players will have a chance to encounter a shiny Squirtle. Blastoise’s exclusive Community Day […]

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kbinMeta·/kbin metabyCoderKat

Why do some Lemmy community not show up in magazine search (others on same instance do)?

Yesterday I learned about https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_community_directory (edit: I got a wrong link somewhere -- this one should have been https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_index) and my local city sub of https://lemmy.ca/c/waterloo. I can't find them in magazine search (eg, https://kbin.social/magazines?q=waterloo). They're not brand new (several days).

If I visit the URL I expect them to have (eg, https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]), I get a 404 and no option to subscribe (I heard some people mention before how Lemmy would show empty communities until the first person on your instance subscribes -- not sure if that even applies to kbin and I can't seem to subscribe anyway).

I can see other subs on the same instance. The whole reason I learned about these subs is because I can see https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] fine. So it doesn't appear to be the instance.

Anyone have any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it?

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kbinMeta·/kbin metabyCoderKat

[Guide] How to make the Imagus extension work with kbin

The Imagus Chrome and Firefox extension shows image previews on hover. Currently with kbin, hovering over the thumbnail in the frontpage or magazine view just shows the thumbnail but slightly larger, which isn't what we want (especially since the thumbnails have a distorted aspect ratio). Here's how to make the extension show the full image when hovering over the thumnail:

  1. In Chrome, open the extension options from the extension menu (puzzle piece icon in the toolbar). The Firefox version likely is somewhat similar.
  2. Go to the "Sieve" tab and click the "+" button to add a new rule.
  3. In the img field, use: ^kbin\.social/media/cache/resolve/entry_thumb/(.*)
  4. In the to field, use: media.kbin.social/$1
  5. Save and refresh any pages that you wanted to use this on.

What the rule should look like

Before

Before screenshot

After

After screenshot

For non-kbin.social instances, you most likely just have to update the domain in the regexes above (steps 3 and 4) to whatever your instance's domain is. I escaped the dot in kbin.social to be safe (if you don't escape it, it matches any character), but it's unlikely to matter.

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kbinMeta·/kbin metabyCoderKat

Can the magazine subscribe option be made much more prominent?

One thing that made Reddit great and scalable was that you'd typically not view all Reddit subs (or even all popular ones), but rather you'd subscribe to subs that interest you.

Kbin has subscriptions. But they aren't the default and are quite hard to figure out. I had to look alllll over on mobile before I realized that the subscribe button is really far down (basically underneath the entire page of posts). It should be at the very top.

It'd also be great if when you create an account, there'd be some wizard to help you pick magazines to subscribe to.

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