Has anyone found a more active community elsewhere in the Fediverse?

#cfb

Can we talk about the "top bar" and why it doesn't show my subscribed magazines?

I like the quick links to the all or subscribed feed, but what is the purpose of showing a bunch of apparently random communities across the top instead of my subscriptions? Maybe that is the intent and that feature hasn't been coded yet?

I'm looking for an easy way to get to my list of subscribed magazines. Sometimes I prefer to go to a specific topic rather than reading everything mixed together, especially if there is a topical event or controversy going on that I want to follow for that particular topic. So far, I have not found any way to see my subscriptions in Kbin beyond going through the list of ALL magazines.

#kbinMeta

Anyone else using the official Android app and constantly bombarded with "delete_alert" notifications? Google is useless these days, but when I've looked into this before it appears this might be related to the app trying to update or remove a previous notification that is no longer relevant.

I don't recall ever seeing this by itself. There always seems to be another notification, usually updates for HA core or HACS modules.

Example: https://imgur.com/a/UEKZUKg

Editor's Note: Apologies if this has been discussed to death, but I figured covering old territory may be necessary as we regenerate.

I was too cool in middle school for Magic the Gathering (or maybe my Mom wouldn't let me player because of demons or something) so my trading card experience was fixated on Star Trek: The Next Generation Customizable Card Game, released originally by Decipher in 1994. At the time, I had no job and no allowance so I only had a few starter decks I got for birthdays or saving up whatever I made from mowing my neighbor's yard. I remember making a very of-the-times custom box from a shoebox covered in duct tape to hold my precious collection--I still have that if anyone wants a photo, haha.

Fast forward to a few years ago when I discovered a new coworker was also a big Trek fan! He also played the game, and he was actually good enough to win some tournaments! That is when I discovered the resell market and websites like The Continuing Committee and the wonderful people that have kept the game alive all these years. I spent more money on eBay (and a few semi-sketchy websites I had never heard of before) than I am prepared to admit, but it was all worth it to fulfill a childhood dream: I now own the entire TNG bridge crew and Enterprise D cards, something I could only salivate over as a kid.

We played a ton of great games over lunch breaks and I learned that all of my favorite cards are weaklings compared to the later expansions, as appears to be true of all long running card games. Eventually he moved on and I had nobody left to play with, but I still occasionally pull out the collection and go through it to relive the nostalgia.

The only major downside is that the popularity had dropped off pretty hard by the time DS9 and Voyager expansions came out, so while the market is flooded with affordable copies of the original run and the few early expansions I remembered, trying to collect the equivalent primary-ship-and-main-crew cards from my other favorite franchises appears to be completely beyond my financial range.

So, that's my story. Did anyone else play and/or collect? Anyone still involved in the modern incarnation?

On reddit, I was used to posts automatically hiding themselves if I voted up or down, or there was a way to hide individual stories manually. Is there a way to do this on Kbin, or even better across the Fediverse in general?