Hey everyone, the content vote ended and here are the results of what people voted for

Reminder that voting was single transferable vote. If two options were tied the one with a worse average placement in all votes was eliminated

(if someone didnt give a second choice then no other options get their vote)

Crosspost community was eliminated first with no first place votes, then main community (second place votes represented in dark blue), then general community (second place votes represented in light blue)

The overall most voted option was Option 2: People catching community. This means that for the community all content relating to the instance is allowed but people will be directed towards more specific communities relevant to their post in the replies. This should then let people be able to post here with no friction and then get filtered down into the proper communities to help make them more active

As there was significantly less votes than the amount of subscribers in the community I will be running a follow up poll in a week to see if people like how the community is being run or if we need to do another poll to change the instance content again.

Linker Bot

Ive been making a bot for the instance called Linker that posts links to communities in the replies when someone posts a non relative instance link. That feature got implemented into lemmy itself in v18 (it will give autocomplete options when you start typing !insertcommunitynamehere on web) so ill be adapting the bot to fit this community to help with the people catching. The bot api is a bit broken right now so it unfortunately wont be able to work for a bit but until then it would be a huge help if you guys do links to mentioned communities in the comments (it only has to be done once so it doesnt spam the replies)

The format im using for bot messages is something similar to

Hey! Here are some possibly relevant communities in the instance based on what was mentioned

- Link to community 1
- etc for any other communities

I am a bot and this message was created automatically

Feel free to adapt that or make your own

Community Request

Just wanted to do a quick advertisement for the community request community here in the instance at !community_request@programming.dev . The community is always open to suggest communities to be added to the instance and make sure to upvote ideas there you want added to show the interest in them. Since the discussion community option didnt win if you feel the discussion posts are getting buried by the other content you can suggest a new community for that (or for whatever topic the discussion is about if its general enough)

Mods

If anyone is interested in helping mod the community feel free to reach out to me. Ideally want at least one other person to moderate this community so I can stop moderating and focus on some more admin tasks around the instance including developing some new features for it

Welcome to the weekly discussion! This is place where you can chat about anything that may not deserve its own post

Hopefully last one I make manually before I get my bots back up

Hey everyone

Theres been some discussion recently about the content allowed in this community so I wanted to make a quick poll to gauge what is wanted in terms of what people see here

The current description of the community is a bit ambiguous so this will determine whether everything is allowed here or if only more general programming topics are

You can just dm me with options ranked based on your preference (its ranked voting) to vote and ill share the results in a day of the overall vote tallies

1: Allow all posts relevant to the instance (main community)

This will let pretty much any post be able to be posted in here whether that be a help question, discussion, news, etc.

Allowed:

• What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
• Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
• Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
• [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
• Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
• Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?

Disallowed

• Things not relevant to the instance

2: Allow any posts and direct people in the comments to more specific communities for their future posts (people catching community)

This will also let any post be able to be posted in here like the previous option but will guide people towards the more specific communities in the future to make them then post the content in those

Allowed:

• What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
• Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
• Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
• [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
• Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
• Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?

Disallowed

• Things not relevant to the instance

3: Only allow topics that arent limited to one language, library, etc. (general topic community)

This will let posts such as: what is your favorite music to listen to while coding? or Here is some details about functional programming be able to be posted while something like a library for python will instead be posted in the python community

Allowed:

• What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
• Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?

Disallowed

• Things not relevant to the instance
• Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
• [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
• Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
• Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?

4: Dont allow questions of how to do X in X language but allow actual discussions or news about the language in addition to general topics (general & discussion community)

Like above but also allows conversations about specific languages in the community as long as its not a question on how to do X in the language

Allowed:

• What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
• Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
• Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
• Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?

Disallowed

• Things not relevant to the instance
• Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
• [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly

5: Only allow crossposts into the community with things like news being posted in the specific community first (crosspost community)

This will ONLY let crossposts be made. All other options also allow crossposts but this makes it so that the post will fill up the specific community while c/programming is a main post feed for people who want to see many different topics from the specific communities

Allowed

• anything as long as its crossposted

Disallowed

• anything not crossposted
• things not relevant to the instance

You can find some past discussion here https://programming.dev/post/388375 to see some points for the different options

Based on whats voted some other communities may be created or adapted to fit the new niche of people

(ill reply to your dm when your vote is counted, if I havent responded in awhile I may not have gotten it or im asleep)

Server is going to go down for an upgrade to increase capacity at 6 UTC. This could take up to 30 minutes

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/371748

If you're familiar with the topic of awesome lists on GitHub, then you should know that there is a community driven list just for Lemmy, including a convenient aggregation of links to instances, alternative front-ends, mobile apps, libraries, tools, guides, etc.

Welcome to Showcase Sunday!

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Welcome to Screenshot Saturday! This is a day where you can show off your game in this thread with things like gifs or images of it!

Hey everyone! Its been a week since I opened the icon poll so here are the results of what people voted for

As a reminder voting is handled by single transferable vote so every round the lowest voted entry is eliminated and the next choices of the people who chose that option is given points. If a person didnt rank all of the entries and doesnt have a next choice no other option gets their points

Icon Style

The icon style vote had 58 votes submitted total

Heres the final graph:

Round one is all of the first choice votes for the people who voted. For round two no unified style was eliminated and the votes were spread to other options. For round three general unified same col was eliminated and for round four all unified same color was eliminated

The overall winning option was All unified diff colors, winning with 36 final votes compared to general unified diff colors' 16 (and having by far the most first choice votes)

Ill be switching some of the communities (ones I made the icon for) over to the new style and new communities in the instance will be created with an icon in the style. Community mods though have the final say in what their community icon looks like and can choose not to follow this result if they want

Make sure to follow the branding guidelines of your programming language, engine, etc. Some require attribution if you edit the logo, some dont allow logo modifications, some dont have a default logo, etc.

If your language, etc. doesnt allow icon modifications you can do the same icon style but instead of a gradient logo you just have the logo itself, you can make a new logo for your community, or you can just have that logo

Icon Shape

The default icon shape poll had 37 total votes and was handled in the same format as the icon style

Pentagon was eliminated first and then squircle was eliminated

The final result was circle winning with 23 final votes compared to hexagon's 14

Community icons will have a circle shape in the instance by default but I will be pushing out a change eventually to allow toggling between different shapes for yourself for the communities on web

Thanks everyone for voting! You should see icons start to change in the instance soon

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