images on the left side would make kbin easier to read
mpro@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 198 points – 
see attached image, but basically having the images on the right side makes it so hard to "read" a post with an image, going back and forth with your eyes to "get" the whole post. So much easier to just put the images between the up-/downvote buttons and the text post.
I don't know if there's a reason for that besides looking different from similar sites. If so, I don't think this is the way, it really puts a strain on your eyes and our brain is not used to absorb information in this way.
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I'll work on a user style for this, and other niggles, tomorrow.
Was about to say, this should be easily doable with custom CSS. Looking forward to seeing your Userstyle when it's done :)
love how people are working on things to customize the user experience, big props :)
@rimu : read a lot of posts like yours, maybe there can be a joint effort for developing something like a "kbin enhancement suite"?
@ernest said he's working on things, and I have the feeling a lot of things people mentioned/ suggested may already be in the pipeline, just saying, you guys might be fixing things he's already working on. Maybe there can is a way to avoid this?
Appreciated. I get kbin doesn't want to reddit clone, but this is a change I can get behind.
Along with moving the response box above the list of replies instead of at the bottom.
yeah, but there's no need to reinvent the wheel. it's like if some car manufacturer would put triangular wheels on their car just because everybody is using round ones. classic case of kust because you are unique doesn't mean you are useful ;)
Well some people do, in fairness, want things to be not the same. Thankfully given the platform it shouldn't be too much (for those that know what the hell they're doing) to offer up tweaks to cater to the oddballs.
That would be great.
Especially the possibility to switch it left/right dynamically, which would be great for **mobile usage"" depending on if you use the left or right hand. And clicking the image would actually expand it, instead of opening the thread.
Not sure if expanding an image like that would be possible with pure CSS/userStyles, some actual code might be involved there
but you CAN use CSS to scale the image upon hover, which could at least help with desktop usage.
Or you can move the button to expand the image also to the left/right depending on where your thumbnail is.
That's basically what I liked most about the Relay app for Android - easily switch between left and right depending on how I hold my phone.
Sorry to get your hopes up - it turns out that moving the image to the left is really hard (aka I don't know CSS grid very well). Also the other changes I wanted ended up being identical to "Compact mode" which you can enable with the cog in the top right. Highly recommended.