Oh wow, that's really good. I like these changes, and I hope something like that gets implemented fully. Keep going!
In particular, good idea with the vote buttons, looks much tidier that way. Would you consider a third button so it goes:
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Considering that boosts here are pretty similar to upvoting, it kind of bugs me that the voting the two functions are scattered around lol.
Is there somewhere you can fit in instance names? Maybe only if the user or magazine isn't on the local instance. I think that information is important enough to be visible, about the same priority as vote counts and boost to me.
If you do keep going, I encourage you to have a look at comments and threads, there's definitely some room for improvement there too!
(Also, @kbinStyles)