So you'd need mods who (1) came over, (2) believe in the platform, (3) believe in the instance, (4) want to do custom CSS, (5) know how to do custom CSS, (6) are willing to put for the effort for a readership that's still fairly small, and (7) feel that the odds of a change that will break their CSS are low.

That's a tall stack of filters, and you may not have a lot of company yet on the other side of it. /m/neverwinternights looks really nice, though. Well done!

I'm the type to tick the 'Ignore custom css' checkbox, so obviously not everybody's interested in that feature.

I appreciate you putting in the effort, but it looks kinda scuffed on mobile

If I may suggest an alternative:

Rather than, "Why is no one..."

...instead why don't you make an easy to follow tutorial and post an article, "THIS is how you can decorate your magazine using CSS..."

If your goal is to have a more beautiful user experience for all who browse the second would seem more effective at achieving that goal.

If your goal is to humble brag and position your magazine (and coding skills) as superior to those of other mag mods, the first phrasing is the superior way to go about that.

I very much doubt your intent was to talk down to anyone, however, so I would very much advocate your writing up a CSS guide in pursuit of what I presume to be your goals (a vibrant and beautiful library of magazines here on kbin).

Your magazine is very pretty and I commend you for your decorative and coding skills.

A majority can't even be bothered to post anything in their magazines.

Bc not all of them know how. some people just started magazines bc they were told "is there no magazine for that thing u like? Just make it yourself!" which doesnt necessarily mean they know how to moderate a community or even do custom CSS.

I'm just waiting for things to shake out before I start going crazy with CSS.

This website's CSS is more complex than Old Reddit's, and people can easily apply different themes. Without a checkbox to turn CSS off, I can easily break my magazines for others.

I didn't realize you could decorate magazines until this post. Do Lemmy users see any custom CSS too?

I got some basic theming set up at my magazine after looking up what CSS is.

I must be in the minority here, I turned off sub-specific CSS as soon as I could.

Probably because most people don't know how to use CSS and there isn't much resources for beginners.

I've done some decorating over at https://kbin.social/m/ArcBrowser. Not done yet, but for Arc Browser users, the colors will adjust to match your browser theme!

#ArcBrowser

Is this really the look you were going for..?

I didn't even realize that was possible here! I'm definitely going to look into it now, but I also have no idea how CSS works.

I played around with it but honestly it's a bit of a nightmare to support given all the different Kbin user themes and the differences between desktop and mobile. Kbin is also not stable in the sense that new changes are expected and new themes are still being added. I figured I'd wait until it stabilized and/or until someone came up with a decent design you can easily plug and play.

I did it, waiting for the results. Still new to CSS, but I used ChatGPT and it worked pretty well.

As a magazine having a custom CSS isn't important for whether I decide to interact with a community, I'm much more focused on other methods of gathering an audience and activity which isn't just me posting over and over.