Huh, I didn't even know carbon fiber had a shelf life, I figured it'd be pretty stable over time.

Here's the reason why, in case anyone's curious (I know I was):

Fabrics and prepregs also degrade gradually over time. In composite laminates it is not the fiberglass, carbon fiber or Kevlar fibers themselves that initially degrade. It is the sizing or fiber primer however that degrades over time. Sizings are placed upon the fibers to make them more compatible with a given resin system during cure. As time goes on fiber sizings diminish, weakening the future link between the fabric and the resin, thus yielding a possibly weaker composite laminate.

The exact storage life of most sized fabrics is not always listed on a technical data sheet. Often one may need to research further into a manufacturer’s technical manuals for an expected shelf life of a fabric sizing. Fiber sizing life can range from a year to beyond five when stored under favorable conditions. For prepreg materials a general shelf life is first a year. After a year or after initial expiration some fabrics and prepregs may be re-tested for performance against its original stated performance specifications and bonding characteristics. In the case of a DIY project possibly using expired fabrics it is important to test a laminated section of the expired fabric to ensure its quality is up to par for its intended use.

Yes, finally! Ever since the minecraft wiki moved away from gamepedia, it's been absolutely terrible. I avoid Fandom at all costs.

I assume they were all ran by the same group of people

Yup, that's correct. Beehaw's 4 admins run every communty on there

All funds from Buy Me a Coffee will be transferred to this pool, but from now on, I'll treat it as buying me a coffee... or a beer... literally ;)

Get yourself something strong, you’ve earned it!

I understand that the fediverse isn't the most intuitive thing to understand, and that many people won't immediately understand it, but I've seen so many comments saying that it's too confusing (even in response to direct links to instances with the simplest explanations). There has to be an astroturfing campaign of some kind going on

Honestly, it's a great question! While kbin is open source, making userscripts allows you to iterate on changes and get updates out very quickly. It's also much easier to start making userscripts than it is to contribute directly to the project, since you only really need to be familiar with JS, HTML, and CSS. To contribute to kbin, you need to be familiar with PHP and Twig, and set up your own instance for testing your changes.

Plus, while kbin is open source, not every single change will be merged, and there will likely always be features "missing" from it. Userscripts also give you a ton of freedom and flexibility in how you use sites, so you could make crazy changes that aren't remotely possible to merge into it.

Hope that answers your questions!

Reflective surfaces inside cars are the bane of my existence

Sweet, looking forward to it!

It'll be fun to see all of the ports of it to random systems in the next few years

That's because I put that in a code block with backticks (`), here's what it looks like normally testing

Make sure to include a description of it in the square brackets for our visually-impaired friends!

/r/mapporn is another one that has gone down the spiral, it has a lot of the same problems as /r/dataisbeautiful.

I think the one that frustrated me the most was /r/data_irl, where about half the people in there take the sub's name literally for some reason and think it's for actual data in real life, and not a data version of /r/me_irl

I'm glad to see you've been enjoying /m/kbinStyles! It's been really cool seeing all of the cool enhancements people have made over the past couple weeks since I created it. @shazbot and I (mostly shazbot) have been working on something that'll make all of this customization a whole lot simpler. It's still very much a work in progress, but I think it's turning out great, so make sure you keep an eye out for that!

Here's a link to the emoticon shortcut script in case anyone else is interested

It might be kinda hard to pull off, but I’ll see what I can do. I’m not sure if KES can be used to (easily) modify the post rankings, but I think randomly hiding them based on a factor you set could work well. So if you set it to 50% for @memes, it’ll hide half of the posts from there on average.

It’s not perfect, but I think it strikes the right balance between seeing every post and blocking it. I’m busy this weekend but I’ll create an issue on KES’s GitHub repo and someone might beat me to it.

I'm using kbin.social on desktop and it shows up fine for me, not sure what's going on on your instance

Kibby's winning by a lot right now, but I hope Bink wins! I really like that name

That's not true, /r/worldnews and /r/news were created on the same day, and /r/worldnews is actually 3 hours older than /r/news

@TerrorBite Please let me out of your phone, it's been 11 years

I hope it stays this way, over the years my feed on reddit has slowly been overcome by ragebait (I'm looking at you /r/gamingcirclejerk), and I've gotten sick and tired of seeing screenshots of hateful comments get posted and massively upvoted. Seems like everyone over here is pretty positive though, so I'm hopeful!

Stylesheet tweaks

Change vote colors

/* Change vote colors to match reddit */
.vote .active.vote__up button  {
  color: #ff8f65;
}

.vote .active.vote__down button  {
  color: #9494ff;
}

Get rid of margins on left and right side to match layout of old reddit

/* Get rid of margins */
.kbin-container {
  max-width: none;
}

Make post creation UI wider

/* Make post creator wider */
.page-entry-create .container {
    max-width: none;
}