Hey guys,

Can one of you please try to subscribe to a community from a different instance? Say, for example, !books@lemmy.ml. I see the text "subscribe", but it is not a button and it does nothing.

Edit: if you already voted see edit at bottom of post

Hey everyone, this is another post regarding choosing the icon style for communities in the instance

There was a bunch of issues raised about the last poll so Ive remade it. The last poll results will not count and instead these ones will be used

• Voting is done by single transferable vote
• You can no longer accidentally click vote

There are two Parts of the poll: The icon style and the icon shape

Icon Style

Note this is just to determine the recommended style for communities, individual communities can choose not to follow it if they want

Option 1: All Unified Same Color

This option is for every icon to have the same style and same color gradient

Option 2: All Unified Diff Colors

This option is for every icon to have the same style with the black background and gradient. However each community has their own colors for the gradient rather than having the same one for all of them. For example the godot community might have a blue purple gradient for their logo and functional programming might have orange red.

Option 3: General Unified Same Col

This option is for general communities (such as experienced devs, meta, programming, game development (things that arent specific to one language, engine, etc.)) have the unified style but other communities instead have the logo for the language, engine, etc.. For example game development would have the gradient icon but godot would have the godot logo

Option 4: General Unified Diff Col

This is a combination of options 2 and 3 where general communities have the gradient style but they also have different colors from each other

Option 5: No Unified Style

No gradient logos for any communities, instead having different style ones for every community

Icon Shape

This is the default shape that you want community logos to have when they show up. If a community logo has a specific shape (ex the godot logo) the voted on shape is overridable. Users will also be able to override whatever gets chosen locally, its just the default. Currently lemmy uses circles for both users and communities.

Poll Link

Edit: the website that was being used makes it very easy to cheat by just downloading a new browser and voting again as many times as you want. Due to this voting will be happening through dms to me. Sorry for all of the iterations of the vote but this will be a big change in the instance and I want to get accurate info

If you want to vote send me a dm with the options ordered based on your preference. Here are the available options (for the two different votes):

Icon Style

• All Unified Same Color
• All Unified Diff Colors
• General Unified Same Col
• General Unified Diff Col
• No unified style

Icon Shape

• Circle
• Squircle
• Square
• Diamond
• Hexagon
• Pentagon

Rank each category from your first choice to your last choice. If your first choice ends up having the least amount of votes then your second choice vote counts instead, etc. until one option has 50% or more of votes.

To dm me go to my profile Here and click on one of the send message buttons (secure message sends it through matrix while the other just sends it through lemmy)

Ill respond to you when I note down your vote to be counted (shouldnt take longer than 8 hours and I try to respond quickly, if I dont then something went wrong with the dm)

Voting will end in a week

I will be updating the instance to v18 at ~~20:00~~ 22:00 UTC.

See https://programming.dev/post/181191 for the changes

edit: Lemmy.ml updated and seems to have gone down. We're going to wait and see what the outage was caused by and then proceed from there.

edit 2: lemmy was down due to a ddos attack. We will upgrade at 22:00 UTC

edit 3: we had issues with the email setup getting overridden again. If you tried to sign up in the past 8 hours please try to just log in. If you can't, please message me (discord, matrix, or mastodon)

Hey everyone! Ive made a third bot for the instance called Linker. This bot will automatically detect when you try to reference a certain community and then give both relative and direct links to it in a comment for people to check out.

The usual syntax when you want to reference a community is communityname@programming.dev with communityname replaced by the community name and programming.dev replaced with the instance the community is in

It will also detect when you link a community like this https://programming.dev/c/programming

Works for both posts and comments but will only handle communities that have been entered in the bot. To start with I've put in the top 50 most active communities in the instance but will put the rest in soon

If you have any suggestions for communities to link in on other instances let me know

Source Code

Now that people have settled in a bit into the instance and we have over 100 communities created I've created a new community that new community requests are going to be moved into rather than the pinned thread

Feel free to post community ideas in there and they will be considered to be added once they hit 7 points from upvotes

You can also request to take over communities that have inactive mods there

You can find the it using these links:

• Relative link
• Direct link

edit: if anyone stumbles onto this community creation has since been opened up and you can create one from the navbar

Edit: This link is outdated, see new poll here https://programming.dev/post/190520

Hey everyone

Wanted to run a poll about the community icons to choose between a couple options

Option 1 - Use UBP icons - Use unified icons for all of the communities similar to beehaw

Option 2 - Use UBP for general communities and specific language, etc. icons for specific communities

Option 3 - Dont use UBP icons

Vote using the strawpoll here (doing strawpoll so it can be ranked voting) [removed in favor of new post]

EDIT: I have remade the poll with two more options. If you voted in the previous one please vote again in this. The new options are just for adding different colored gradients to the unified icons for different communities

Quick example of this:

I've tried solutions explained here and here. I am trying to subscribe to some communities on the TTRPG Network. Am I missing something?

Ive been working on some unified icons for the instance so the icons feel like they belong together

Let me know if you like them or if there's some adjustments I should make

Some examples from ones I've done

The majority of them are generated from https://game-icons.net/ with the settings of foreground being shrunk twice and position being x:2 y:2. Foreground color is diagonal from 2EE5D2 to A01FC5. And has a shadow with color 423025 and blur set to 15. The background color is just black

Hey everyone, I've just finished up my second bot in the instance after Frank my thread posting bot. This one is called Mega and is just used to auto post any new posts that come up from RSS feeds to certain communities.

Currently I just have it set up in the Godot and Unreal communities but if you're modding a community in the instance and want a feed added let me know.

I also have the source code available here if you want to look at it or host a version of it yourself.

In case something goes wrong with programming.dev infrastructure, it would be good to have a Mastodon account (preferably not hosted on the same infrastructure) to inform the public about the status.

I registered on the web site today and then tried to log in on Jerboa, but it gives the Incorrect Login message. I figured maybe my first (autogenerated) password was too long or had invalid characters in it. So I've tried several times to change it, but neither the Change Password box in Settings nor reset password works. Both of them just changes the button to a spinner whenever I click it. What's up?

EDIT: It seems the same problem affects trying to log in (I'm still logged in on this browser, but I can't log in on any other). But it doesn't even seem to be specific to my user. No matter what username and password I give it, the button just keeps on spinning. Both on Firefox on Linux and Chrome on Android. So it should affect everyone. Strange.

EDIT 2: Logging in doesn't work on other servers running 0.17.4 (tried https://discuss.tchncs.de/login and https://sh.itjust.works/login).

fjärrinlägg från: https://mstdn.social/users/stux/statuses/110582137637837383

Huh. In the list with "fastest growing #Lemmy instances" are only spam instances now

I'm currently creating an instance ban list for Geddit to block those instances if they don't take action.. This is a disaster waiting to happen :lemmy:

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

@lemmy

If you previously preferred browsing old.reddit for its compact and information dense web layout, you should know that this theme can be replicated for Lemmy using monkey scripts.

For more information on installing browser extensions to use scripts linked by this post, checkout:

• https://greasyfork.org
• https://violentmonkey.github.io/
  • Recommend given recent context:
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34830903

Hey everyone! Ive been working on a bot you may see popping up in the communities I manage (the gamedev ones). Currently it will just post the daily threads like screenshot saturday, etc. automatically so they always go up and so its feasible to post them in multiple communities

If you want to block messages from the bot so you don't see these daily and weekly threads, you can do so in your user settings by disabling the show bot accounts checkbox. This will hide all bots from your view (You can also block the bot if you only dont want to see stuff from it but you want to see other bots)

If youre modding a community and want a thread posted every week, a daily discussion, or something similar let me know and I can add it to the bot functionality

I'm only getting this error while trying to comment on the programming board here on Jerboa. Other boards work on Jerboa and that board works in the browser. My best guess is that it doesn't allow "Undecided" and Jerboa is using that by default. On the browser I can select a language as I post but it seemed like one with the Undecided language posted still.

Is anyone else getting this problem or is it just me?

This link returns nothing: https://programming.dev/search/q/https%3A%2F%2Flemmyrs.org%2Fc%2Flemmyfederation%40lemmy.ml/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

Related to GItHub issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3203

Just noticed that on my (low-end) laptop I get fairly high CPU usage from the browser tab for https://programming.dev

So thought I look what it's doing via Chromium's DevTools and there is a constant stream of activity. Looking at the websocket messages, it looks like it's syncing all messages from the server (even for communities I am not subscribed to) to my browser tab (probably every time I reload the page?)

Seriously, that can't be how it's supposed to work - and certainly won't scale? What is going on? Any ideas?

Just one random message from the Websocket (and I am certainly not subscribed to "animals"):

{
  "post_view": {
    "post": {
      "id": 85854,
      "name": "Happy sunday from those two sunshines",
      "url": "https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/af5f9c55-a257-46a5-8f5b-01a19b13239f.jpeg",
      "body": "I will try not to overload this community with pictures of the guinea pig gang, but I can't promise anything.",
      "creator_id": 34228,
      "community_id": 350,
      "removed": false,
      "locked": false,
      "published": "2023-06-18T10:36:43.876949",
      "updated": null,
      "deleted": false,
      "nsfw": false,
      "embed_title": null,
      "embed_description": null,
      "embed_video_url": null,
      "thumbnail_url": "https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/aaaefb47-ab90-418f-814b-c63086b746f8.jpeg",
      "ap_id": "https://feddit.de/post/908703",
      "local": false,
      "language_id": 0,
      "featured_community": false,
      "featured_local": false
    },
    "creator": {
      "id": 34228,
      "name": "November",
      "display_name": null,
      "avatar": "https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/ad41ccb1-9fb7-4615-bea4-9dafa4a3cc20.jpeg",
      "banned": false,
      "published": "2023-06-12T05:45:00.284014",
      "updated": null,
      "actor_id": "https://feddit.de/u/November",
      "bio": null,
      "local": false,
      "banner": null,
      "deleted": false,
      "inbox_url": "https://feddit.de/u/November/inbox",
      "shared_inbox_url": "https://feddit.de/inbox",
      "matrix_user_id": null,
      "admin": false,
      "bot_account": false,
      "ban_expires": null,
      "instance_id": 6
    },
    "community": {
      "id": 350,
      "name": "animals",
      "title": "Animals and Pets",
      "description": "Pretty self explanatory. Post animals, post pets, post stuff about animals and pets!\n\n---\n\nThis community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the [CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).",
      "removed": false,
      "published": "2023-06-06T23:15:43.737680",
      "updated": "2023-06-16T19:33:12.626731",
      "deleted": false,
      "nsfw": false,
      "actor_id": "https://beehaw.org/c/animals",
      "local": false,
      "icon": "https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/fc62ef62-657e-4ab8-ae33-b32cc20e4dc0.png",
      "banner": null,
      "hidden": false,
      "posting_restricted_to_mods": false,
      "instance_id": 5
    },
    "creator_banned_from_community": false,
    "counts": {
      "id": 30595,
      "post_id": 85854,
      "comments": 13,
      "score": 64,
      "upvotes": 64,
      "downvotes": 0,
      "published": "2023-06-18T10:36:43.876949",
      "newest_comment_time_necro": "2023-06-18T23:01:59.286120",
      "newest_comment_time": "2023-06-18T23:01:59.286120",
      "featured_community": false,
      "featured_local": false,
      "hot_rank": 34,
      "hot_rank_active": 80
    },
    "subscribed": "NotSubscribed",
    "saved": false,
    "read": false,
    "creator_blocked": false,
    "my_vote": null,
    "unread_comments": 13
  }
}

I'm going to be working on getting the instance upgraded to 17.4 today. I had tried in the past, but had some issues with cloudflare and dns resolution.

First attempt will be at 17:00 UTC.

I'll update this post if that doesn't work and provide a second time.

We should probably submit a request to include our communities here as subreddit alternatives:

• https://github.com/GeorgeSG/sub.rehab (check the GitHub Discussions)

There are some other similar sites we could also update to as well:

• https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html
• https://redditmigration.com/

Hey there. I get this badge

when I enable libreJS. Despite that LibreJS has no complaints and doesn't block anything. How so?

I cannot reply to the following comment. I have tried a dozen times over the last couple hours. Anyone else able to?

https://programming.dev/comment/185004

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know of some features ive been working on for the instance and get some feedback on them to shape how they turn out

The main things mostly involve the addition of flairs around the website similar to reddit flairs

User Flairs

The first addition to be added is user flairs. Communities will be able to make flairs for use in their community with self assignable flairs, and flairs given by mods. These could include things like marking people who participated in a special event, adding in what specific programming language you use, or marking people who made contributions like making the community banner.

Mods will be able to create and assign flairs using a button beside the inbox button in the top right, and users will be able to get flairs from the sidebar

Flairs are put into flair groups which only allow certain amounts of flairs from that group to be chosen. For example if you have a role for choosing programming language and you only want people to choose one you can set a max of 1 for that flair group. (This can be set to whatever you want as long as its a nonnegative integer)

Post Flairs

Post flairs function essentially the same as user flairs but are put on posts instead. Flairs can be set to be only assignable by mods or able to be assigned by everyone and they are also in flair groups if you only want one of a type to be added (e.g. if you have category post flairs for help, news, etc. and dont want people to assign both help and news to the same post)

Community Flairs

Function the same as the other two but are created by admins and set by mods instead of mods and users. Are added to communities to show what category of community it is (e.g. gamedev, webdev, etc.)

Mod List

Currently in community both admins and mods show up in the mod list. Im aiming to add a small update to only show mods so that admins arent shown (as they arent the ones running the community) unless explicitly added

Ive got an image showing a possible setup for flairs. Currently all the posts in here have the same flair format as its not built apart from basic ui but can give a rough idea of it

Check the top comments from this thread "Reddit: Killing a Giant". I've seen our server URL floating around some of the sub comments in Reddit related threads on HN before this week, but this was the first I found linked from the top comment. Comment here if you spot anymore out in the wild. 🏞️

Welcome folks from HN! Feel free to say hello!