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submitted 6 months ago by BasicallyClean@kbin.social to c/mma@kbin.social
[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We are living proof of that. We have the #1, #2, #3 most commented threads ever on kbin on m/MMA for our threads. People just show up.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BasicallyClean@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

Hi all,

As best I can tell, we over at m/MMA have #1, #2, and #3 most commented threads ever on kbin and had a couple go over 400 comments.

We have a blast during our live event threads, and we're having another tomorrow starting at 7 ET. We comment live during the fights! So if you're curious about the sport or would like to learn, come on over and say hi! We have a blast and it's very interactive!

But that's not why I'm here today.

We have noticed some limitations in our live threads and wanted to see if we could get these three simple changes made and believe it would not only help us but the platform in general:

  1. We need the ability for mods to be able to sticky comments to the top of threads, regardless of sort.

  2. The ability for mods to "set suggested sort" like on Reddit, so that when someone rolls in the thread, they're automatically seeing the newest comments by default and not having to reclick it over and over and over again. This makes the threads more interactive and fun.

3. The comment box is at the bottom but the new comments are at the top when you sort by new. What ends up happening is you have to scroll all the way to the bottom to post a new comment, then all the way back up to see the new comments. This gets annoying even at 400 comments, and I can't imagine how much worse it would get once we really start getting huge engagement. We even had a user who commented under another user, who couldn't even find the top level comment box last event because scrolling to the bottom wasn't what they expected.

I feel like these small changes would help so much. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BasicallyClean@kbin.social to c/mma@kbin.social

Card Info

Airing on (ESPN) - Main Card 7 PM ET

Division Fighters
Middleweight Sean Strickland vs. Abus Magomedov
Lightweight Damir Ismagulov vs. Grant Dawson
Welterweight Max Griffin vs. Michael Morales
Flyweight Ariane Lipski vs. Melissa Gatto
Lightweight Benoit Saint-Denis vs. Ismael Bonfim
Middleweight Nursulton Ruziboev vs. Brunno Ferreira

Prelims - 4 PM ET

Division Fighters
Welterweight Kevin Lee vs. Rinat Fakhretdinov
Featherweight Yana Santos vs. Karol Rosa
Flyweight Ivana Petrović vs. Luana Carolina
Featherweight Joanderson Brito vs. Westin Wilson
Heavyweight Alexandr Romanov vs. Blagoy Ivanov
Lightweight Guram Kutateladze vs. Elves Brener

^(Fight card order and start times may be inaccurate.)

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Main card starts at 3 PM ET

Prelims start at 11:30 ET

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by BasicallyClean@kbin.social to c/mma@kbin.social

Hello all,

We had a lot of people leave Reddit and move here exclusively.

As the r/MMA mod team is a bit spread thin right now, wanted to put out some feelers to see who may be interested in moderating m/MMA to help grow this place out.

Please DM me if interested. Thanks.

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[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

We're way ahead of you, check my profile for m/BotIt

[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

And we'll still be here too!

[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Also everyone, please upvote this thread itself so we can get other folks from the fediverse to come over to the thread as well. Thanks.

[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

No flairs yet! Baby steps!

[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

That was the right call. Good on Keith to fix that.

[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If Reddit has proven anything as of late, they're unreliable as a partner.

I'm clearly not a developer but would have reservations in relying on the API just for how erratic they are.

[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe create a magazine for it to get some additional support? I could edit the top post.

EDIT: https://kbin.social/m/BotIt

[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I'm clearly not an expert on this, but I know people scrape data without API's

[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

The issue and solution are the same whether you're on kbin or lemmy.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BasicallyClean@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

While most of the people here upset and rightfully so, we have got to move past the angst to actually build this place out.

We have to recreate the environment and communities we've created on on Reddit here, so that people don't feel like they're missing out being on kbin.

That way, the next time Spez goes full Elon, we already have everything in place to make the jump.

I help run r/MMA on Reddit. We aggregate news as well as bringing on MMA figures for AMAs.

We, like many other magazines here, will need a way to quickly aggregate breaking news onto our magazine, and the easiest way to do that is going to be through a bot that mirrors submissions to our subreddit.

At least for the mags that rely on breaking news, if we implement this at scale, the end user wont be missing much by migrating over here if they get all the same great breaking news.

Do we have any bot builders in the house who could take this on as a project?

We would be leveraging Reddit's own userbase at scale to better kbin, and eventually beat them in the long run. That's the biggest L we could ever deal them.

EDIT: WASN'T SURE THIS WAS GONNA BLOW UP. IVE MADE https://kbin.social/m/BotIt FOR DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED AND CAN HELP OR JUST WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROJECT, COME ON OVER. THANKS.

[-] BasicallyClean@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

The absolute #1 thing we need right now is focus on building kbin:

We DESPERATELY need a bot that will take submissions from our subreddit and mirror them on kbin so that we can create the same experience over here and build this place in parallel.

Once Spez eventually ruins Reddit through this Elon phase he's going through, we will have a functioning community here, but we won't do that if we can't recreate the experience.

Does anyone have a solution to this? Any bot builders out there?

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Hi all,

After signing up, (click login, then register), below are some settings to make kbin look and feel more like Reddit.

You navigate to the gear icon in the upper corner as shown here.

And then it opens up a new group of settings.

Here are some settings that look to be a mix between old and new reddit that users may enjoy.

Toward the top with the red smudges beside them, you can change the font size as well as the color and layout.

If you guys have any additional settings you like, post below.

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Hello all,

Thanks for making the trek over from Reddit!

We are not going to be allowing spam, but we are going to be relaxing our posting rules over here on kbin.

-We will allow the submissions of other sports like Muay Thai, Kickboxing, and other related combat sports.

-We will have less stringent titling rules

-The good memes can stay for now.

-As well as relaxing some other rules not mentioned here at mod discretion.

What will stay:

-Being civil to other posters.

-No politics.

-Posts still need to be related to organized, sanctioned sporting events and organizations. No random training videos or discussion that is not about mixed martial arts at-large

-Hangin’ wit da boiiis

Thanks again for making it over and we’ll see you around!

Thanks,
Mod Team

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