https://www.motor1.com/news/700974/alfa-romeo-not-suv-brand/
Today's AM Drive is about Alfa Romeo sticking with a sedan body style for the next Giulia. Genesis shows two-tone cars and a G80 Performance.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-id-2
Interior of ID 2All concept shows how Volkswagen is responding to criticism about over-reliance on touch controls
https://jalopnik.com/low-profile-tires-are-ruining-modern-cars-1836309462
The Volkswagen Up GTI I had in France last summer was a dream. It also had 17-inch wheels and low-profile tires. Off the coast, I ran over what seemed to be an innocuous small rock in the road. I knew something was wrong in about the next 10 seconds.
To me, it's: That ancient people thought the Earth was flat.
We have records from around 430BC where Greek philosophers spoke of the Earth being a sphere. In 240BC the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth and was only about 2% out.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/thats-all-folks-chevy-camaro-production-officially-ends
The Bowtie's beloved muscle car is going away with no immediate successor in line.
Hello everyone!
The original creator of this community went inactive a long time ago and ever since the moderation and activity has gone down to pretty much 0 in this community.
Although luckily, I was able to takeover, and I am hoping this community can be what r/Cars has been for on Reddit, a place for all car enthusiasts to gather and discuss. And speaking of r/cars on reddit, if we can get back to sustainable community growth here, we may be able to partner with r/cars, which can be huge for our community here on the Fediverse.
This community, as a fellow car enthusiast, is really important to me and so far, we have not only removed multiple spam posts and placed bans on spam bots or rule breakers, we've also been testing banners and logos, we have also implemented rules and description which will continue to be refined.
Finally, hope the community can comeback alive, if you are interested in cars, please do consider posting and interacting here.
Thank you!
Currently moderate m/Cars, m/AskKbin, m/RedditMigration, and while testing out to see if federation works through my lemmy.world dummy account, I can't seem to find m/AskKbin like I used to, same with m/cars.
is anyone else facing this? This is negatively affecting both Kbin mainly and also Lemmy. Would be great if this can be addressed.
Full credit goes to: /u/Pamasich for working on it and helping me out with CSS, the below CSS I will mention is fully made by he/her, again thank you!
To all kbin magazine moderators,
Below is the CSS you can use to include your own banner of choice to your Kbin magazine/community:
h1[hidden] {
height: 12vh;
background-image: url(https://i.imgur.com/wbZa4eI.png);
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
display: block;
color: transparent;
user-select: none;
}
DEMO: Check m/cars using this CSS
NOTE: Change height's value according to your needs to fit your banner accordingly. You should also replace the image link in the above CSS with your choice, I used imgur to upload the image there, and copy/paste the image's address/link here.
This is what we have so far thanks to /u/Pamasich, and I hope this comes to rescue all of the moderators just like myself.
Why should you add a banner? This simply makes the community look more appealing and welcoming for users to participate, depending on what kind of topic your magazine is based on, a banner is invaluable.
And if you guys have your own further modifications to the given CSS above, feel free to mention them in the comments so everyone else can find this thread useful in the future!
Been helping moderate some many huge communities here on kbin such as m/AskKbin, m/Redditmigration and so on, trying to contribute in ways I can.
And over the course of my time here at Kbin, here are some of the features I really, really wish comes to Kbin one day.
Banners for magazines: Right now we moderators are only able to make new logos and use that for our communities, but unlike Reddit or Lemmy, Kbin has been lacking the ability to make a banner apart from the Logo, the banner would help a lot more with not only the customization of the magazine but the overall appeal to it. This of-course should be optional as not every community would be going for this kind of look based on it's topic, but for the majority, this can really add more to the experience.
More optional applicable permissions to moderators when owners add them: Right now, when I add a moderator, they can only delete, ban and moderate posts in general, but accessing the mod panel is impossible unless you are an admin, so this means, moderators can't help owners with community rules, description, or even attach a new logo. There should atleast be some kind of supermod option or role that I could enable for the mods, so that this remains an optional but needed feature for some (and I am one of them).
Community Engagement: This is just, to put it lightly, lacking. For example, if someone make a really good post, everyone else is immediately ready to upvote/downvote and jump on the comments, but taking that first step of posting a good thread is just really, lacking. One of the reasons I believe for that is also because the platform feels very stale or dead in plain sight. To solve this, we could implement online status (OPTIONAL, I know not everyone will be into this), but we seriously need to figure out a way to make the site look more live and active, online status like Discord or Reddit (oh yes, reddit has this too, but this is optional and can be disabled) can really help add a more live and active feel to the community, this can in-directly encourage more engagement and the users will feel more inclined to particpate when they see others online.
Reddit also has some other features like showing "X number of people are viewing this thread", again adding that more of a live engaging feeling to the platform.
If yall have more, add them in the comments, this is what I remember so far.
Thank you for reading!
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