I recently made a major update to my Improved Channel Select Menu userscript, which adds your subscribed magazines and liked collections to the channel select button in the header.

Here are the changes:

• The script now works with turbo mode!
• The menu now automatically refreshes when you subscribe or unsubscribe from a magazine. This can be changed in settings.
• An oversight was correct that caused the script to break on kbin.earth. Now, it should work there, and it now even applies there by default.

In addition to that, I also made a version for Mbin instances. So if you're on kbin.run, fedia.io, etc., you can use this if you prefer it over Mbin's native sub menu.

*Note: To get it to run on your Mbin instance, you'll probably need to add the following line of code in:
// @match *://instance.name/*
Add this where the other // @match lines are, and replace instance.name with the name of your instance.

Hope this helps a few people (especially since kbin.social's quite slow rn)!

Download Kbin version here

Download Mbin version here

What the title says. Feel free to get into fierce food debates in the comments.

I have a good few unique dislikes, but the one I'll mention here is Dr. Pepper. It tastes absolutely abominable, and I have no idea how everyone likes it. It's just not good.

Since the beginning of the year, there's been a bit of a pattern over on @kbinDevlog:

• Ernest posts, saying he'll get back to regular devlogs in 1-4 days;
• Absolutely nothing happens for the next 2 weeks or so;
• Ernest posts again, saying he'll get back to regular devlogs in 1-4 days;
• etc.

Now, it's understandable for your plans to change in response to unforeseen events popping up or foreseen events taking longer than expected. From what I can tell, the delays have been due to formalities and medical issues, and I absolutely believe that Ernest should prioritize his physical health over Kbin.

That being said, if you can't go back to the usual pattern of development within the time frame you promised, then it's best for people to know sooner so they aren't left wondering what's happening. If you said 2 days but you need to delay, I'd like to know soon after those 2 days as opposed to getting silence for 2 weeks.

This time around, the culprit of the silence may be complications in a hospital procedure he recently underwent as per his most recent devlog. However, that doesn't explain the periods of nothing before then, so I'm still left wondering why quick updates have been so infrequent over a 2-month period.

Additionally, there are some major problems being caused by Ernest's absence:

• Big magazines that Ernest moderates, like @tech, are riddled with spam.
• Abandoned magazine moderation have been unanswered, so people can't pitch in to deal with spam even if they wanted to.
• Nothing has happened on the Codeberg for over 2 months (except for one translation-related change which wasn't done by Ernest), so we're in the dark as to what progress is actually being made.
• Kbin is still, well, in an undeveloped state, meaning issues like poor microblog federation have persisted for months.

So, @ernest, if you're in a position to answer, what's going on rn, and could you have someone moderate the instance or work on the project in situations like this where you're absent? I hope this doesn't come across as unnecessary whining, but I think this pattern is becoming a genuine problem.

A serial comma (or Oxford comma) is an optional comma used before the last item in a list. For example, "bread, butter, and tax evasion" uses a serial comma, whereas "bread, butter and tax evasion" does not.

Do you use it? Why or why not?

I always use it. I don't perceive any less of a pause between the last two items in a list than between any others, so it feels natural to put a comma there as well. Tbh, I'm so used to it that I usually have to do a double-take when it's not there (since it looks like a grammar error to me at first).

What the title says. What books are you reading? Or if not books, what are some interesting articles you've read lately?

I've been devouring Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series this past week (just started the last book yesterday). It adds so much to the Percy Jackson universe, and I plan on binging Trials of Apollo afterwards.

This has been an issue since the beginning of Kbin tmk, but when you make a post, it won't appear under sort by hot unless it has an upvote. This means that if someone forgets to upvote their own post, it just won't appear on the default sort. There are plenty of posts I've missed because of this.

Any idea when something like this might be changed?