If you’re anything like me you had certain tabs to certain sub-reddits open almost constantly. I myself had…/r/all up on almost any browser that wasn’t work related followed by at least 2 or 3 that I would just leave up constantly and periodically check.

With the move over to kbin I’m forcing myself to avoid Reddit as much as possible (Google searches make that really difficult) and adapting to the lower (though growing!) stream of content that I’m used to taking in… But it’s still felt…off? I un-installed BaconReader already and work very hard not to let my fingers default to whichever /r/ I’m thinking of at the moment and I’m succeeding but it’s still felt off. Felt wrong. Something wasn’t right.

I just re-created my tabs with kbin magazines. At least two are almost entirely empty but … it doesn’t matter? Like - just having them up soothes some part of me that was /really/ uncomfortable and it’s not like the subreddits themselves even always had great content to be updated with whenever I refreshed them… They were just the “default communities” that I always wanted to keep an eye on.

And again… Maybe it’s just me but honestly /just having those tabs open helps so much/ like I have so much less desire to check in with reddit now because I see the things that I care about and have multiple tabs open for it - even if they need to grow.

And it’s also making me post in them to hopefully help start that process.

So if you’re feeling anything like I was, agitated and off and like something was “missing” - make your kbin tabs match your reddit tabs, even if they’re empty. 'cause it made such a difference and I feel so much better now.