Starting up a new monthly post where I look at the communities in the instance to see how well all of them are doing

From this we should be able to see what communities are struggling so that they can be focused on for adding activity across the instance

My goal for december will be increasing the amount of communities that appear in the active and moderate sections and will compare to see the activity change then

For community activity levels im breaking this into 5 categories (note these stats are based on the new users/month stats in the instance)

• Lively- 5k users/month or above
• Active - 201-4999 users/month
• Moderate - 51-200 users/month
• Quiet - 11-50 users/month
• Dead - 0-10

Communities in each category

• Lively communities: 2 (1%)
• Active communities: 11 (6%)
• Moderate communities: 27 (15%)
• Quiet communities: 45 (25%)
• Dead communities: 92 (52%)

Most active communities

• !programmer_humor@programming.dev (7.4k users/month)
• !programming@programming.dev (5.12k)
• !godot@programming.dev (1.37k)
• !linux_memes@programming.dev (1.3k)
• !meta@programming.dev (1.09k)
• !software_gore@programming.dev (1.02k)
• !android@programming.dev (974)
• !rust@programming.dev (816)
• !gamedev@programming.dev (786)
• !linux@programming.dev (782)

Least active communities

(These are ones that will be prioritized for making active) (theres a lot in the dead category so these are random ones from that, not all of them)

• !mongodb@programming.dev
• !erlang@programming.dev
• !emacs@programming.dev
• !nim@programming.dev
• !flutter@programming.dev
• !terraform@programming.dev
• !devlogs@programming.dev
• !astro@programming.dev
• !swift@programming.dev
• !intellij@programming.dev

One other community that should be interesting to see the growth is the advent of code community as that is about to start

!advent_of_code@programming.dev

currently at 136 but I assume thats going to grow much larger

Hey everyone, I just pushed a change that changes how active users/month, etc. is calculated

In Pangora I've swapped this to include both post and comment likes to more accurately reflect activity in addition to the default things it counts (By default it only counts people who have posted a post or a comment but thats not everyone who is active in the community) (Its not counting people who have looked at the community but not voted or posted but its closer than before to getting most activity).

To line the instance up to pangora functionality and since I can do this without needing to touch the code I made it follow how pangora calculates it.

users/day on some community gives a tally of all users that have done one of the following in the past 24 hours in that community:

• posted a post
• posted a comment
• voted on a post
• voted on a comment

The community stats have already been updated and the instance-wide ones should update soon next time it recalculates the stats

(note these stats only show in the instance since each instance calculates their own set of stats for all communities. If youre looking at a community in this instance from another instance the old stats will show. However this also means that communities in other instances when viewed in this instance show the new stats)

Pushed an update to https://beta.pangora.social that has the changes ive made to the site since the last alpha

Updates include:

• Lists of active and new communities on the sidebar
• Community names can have custom gradients
• The post feeds works with javascript disabled
• The posts in the post feed now have less transparency and the background on the post previews have less transparency
• The post previews have been centered more
• The URL now changes to match the post when looking at a post preview
• A system theme has been added to the theme switcher and should be set by default
• The icons in the post feed scope & sort buttons now are not trapped inside the button
• The community view now allows you to sort posts
• You can now view posts from multiple communities
• code block text size has been made larger (might not work for comments)

Viewing posts from multiple communities

You can view posts from multiple communities at once by setting them all in the url. Separate each community by a plus.

for example https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming+opensource will show you posts from both programming and opensource

If you want to add in a community in another instance add it in in the format community@domain

e.g. https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming+opensource+technology@lemmy.world+opensource@lemmy.ml

Wildcard

You can put a wildcard (star symbol *) instead of the instance domain to search for that community name in all instances

• note that this will only pull from the biggest instances for now due to limitations from this being only in the frontend currently

e.g. https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming@* will get all communities named programming in different instances

Wildcard instance exceptions

You can make a wildcard ignore a certain instance by first adding a minus sign after the wildcard (-) to mark a new rule, then an exclamation mark (!) to mark a negation, and then the instance domain

e.g. https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming@*-!programming.dev-!lemmy.zip will get all communities named programming in different instances except for the ones in programming.dev and lemmy.zip

Composition

You can combine the above as much as you want to get complex queries. You may run into rate limits if you add an extremely large amount of communities though

Example Query

WARNING

This is implemented only in the frontend currently so certain aspects will be broken

Hot and active sorts for multiple communities will not work

Added in some sections on the right side of the screen in the home page that shows the 5 most active communities, and the 5 most recently made communities

This is essentially the equivalent of the trending communities section in lemmy-ui but isnt using the severely broken hot community sort

Section in lemmy ui below

Also you might notice that some communities now have different gradient colors. I added in support for different community gradients and set some values for some of them. (Note this is all hardcoded into the frontend current until I touch the backend).

It also affects the colors of the community names in post feeds such as is done below

As well I made the site sidebar card and the new community list sidebar cards show information when javascript is disabled. Ill be going through and trying to make that happen for as many things as possible

The site theme now also follows prefers-color-scheme by default

Ill likely be changing how the home feed is handled a bit so that it can support javascript being disabled before I push things out to beta.pangora.social

I started implementing a feature that lets you see posts from multiple communities at the same time. Above ive got it pulling from 5 different communities.

Done by just listing all of the communities in the url with plus signs separating them. Its not pushed out to the pangora beta site right now but ill probably try to push out a build either this weekend or during the week

Currently just shows the first 50 from each, ill try to add some sort of addition to the backend in the future that will let me query for multiple communities so I can do the first 50 out of all of them so it doesnt have things out of order for the last post on a page and the first post on the next page

The federated community of the week this week is the xkcd community over on lemmy.world! xkcd is a webcomic that frequently has subject matter relating to math, programming, and science

Top Posts

• xkcd #1172: Workflow
• xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice
• xkcd #743: Infrastructures

!xkcd@lemmy.world

Hey everyone! Will be trying to get communities of the week started up again with community of the week on wednesday, and federated community of the week on friday

This week we have the opensource community! This is a community where you can post anything relating to open source software. If you ever stumble upon a cool open source software, have an article to share relating to open source, have a question relating to open source, etc. feel free to post it there. Its currently one of the low-medium activity communities in the instance but has the potential to be a pretty active one

Top Posts

• DocuSeal - Open-source DocuSign alternative
• An open-source bandcamp alternative under developement
• OBS Studio 30.0 released(GPL2+ live streaming/recording software)

!opensource@programming.dev

In the past there was some dicussion about setting up a community and putting some effort into starting to transcribe content but the effort died down a bit

I'm reviving the push to transcribe content now that we have some other image based communities popping up such as !software_gore@programming.dev

How this will work is if you see an image post with no transcriptions yet, feel free to transcribe it and describe what is in the image. If you are posting images you can also add transcriptions of the image in your post body.

The majority of transcriptions will follow this sort of format

Image Transcription: [Insert what category it is here (e.g. meme, discord, reddit, code)]

***

[*A description of anything that might be worth describing about the image aside from what the text says. e.g. an unusual font, background images, etc.]

[The text]

***

I am a human volunteer who transcribes posts to improve accessibility on programming.dev and you could be one too! [!transcribing@programming.dev](/c/transcribing@programming.dev)

the description and text might be repeated if theres multiple images in one and each different image description should be separated with a horizontal line using three dashes

For example for the image:

Image Transcription: Twitter

Annie, @soychotic

Every time I have a programming question and I rly need help, I post it on Reddit and then log into another account and reply to it with an obscenely incorrect answer. Ppl don't care about helping other but they LOVE correcting others. Works 100% of the time

I am a human volunteer who transcribes posts to improve accessibility on programming.dev and you could be one too! !transcribing@programming.dev

This is a spot where you can ask anything that you feel doesn't deserve its own post, no matter how small or simple it is!

A community for posting memes and humor relating to linux

Yes this community already exists on lemmy.world but not all of our federated instances are federated with world (e.g. beehaw) so this provides an alternative community

Links:

• !linux_memes@programming.dev
• /c/linux_memes
• @linux_memes@programming.dev (kbin)

A community for posting memes and humor relating to linux

Yes this community already exists on lemmy.world but not all of our federated instances are federated with world (e.g. beehaw) so this provides an alternative community

Links:

• !linux_memes@programming.dev
• /c/linux_memes
• @linux_memes@programming.dev (kbin)

Community for posting any moments where software unpredictably malfunctions to do something it was not intended to do

Links:

• !software_gore@programming.dev
• /c/software_gore