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Edit: This link is outdated, see new poll here https://programming.dev/post/190520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

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/149828

Hey everyone! Wanted to highlight some other game development related communities in the instance

I Need a Team (Getting teammates)

A community for finding teammates to work with for both free and paid work. This includes getting teammates for making commercial games, finding other people to work with for a game jam, etc.

Play My Game (Posting about game)

A community for showing off your completed game to others

Destroy My Game (Getting Feedback)

A community for getting honest feedback on things such as aspects of your game, your store page, mechanics, etc.

Godot (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the godot game engine

Unity (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the unity game engine

Unreal (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the unreal game engine

Pico-8 (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the pico-8 game engine

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/149828

Hey everyone! Wanted to highlight some other game development related communities in the instance

I Need a Team (Getting teammates)

A community for finding teammates to work with for both free and paid work. This includes getting teammates for making commercial games, finding other people to work with for a game jam, etc.

Play My Game (Posting about game)

A community for showing off your completed game to others

Destroy My Game (Getting Feedback)

A community for getting honest feedback on things such as aspects of your game, your store page, mechanics, etc.

Godot (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the godot game engine

Unity (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the unity game engine

Unreal (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the unreal game engine

Pico-8 (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the pico-8 game engine

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/149828

Hey everyone! Wanted to highlight some other game development related communities in the instance

I Need a Team (Getting teammates)

A community for finding teammates to work with for both free and paid work. This includes getting teammates for making commercial games, finding other people to work with for a game jam, etc.

Play My Game (Posting about game)

A community for showing off your completed game to others

Destroy My Game (Getting Feedback)

A community for getting honest feedback on things such as aspects of your game, your store page, mechanics, etc.

Godot (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the godot game engine

Unity (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the unity game engine

Unreal (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the unreal game engine

Pico-8 (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the pico-8 game engine

Hey everyone! Wanted to highlight some other game development related communities in the instance

I Need a Team (Getting teammates)

A community for finding teammates to work with for both free and paid work. This includes getting teammates for making commercial games, finding other people to work with for a game jam, etc.

Play My Game (Posting about game)

A community for showing off your completed game to others

Destroy My Game (Getting Feedback)

A community for getting honest feedback on things such as aspects of your game, your store page, mechanics, etc.

Godot (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the godot game engine

Unity (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the unity game engine

Unreal (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the unreal game engine

Pico-8 (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the pico-8 game engine

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.

Short video where he goes over a couple important things

• Add an icon to your game
• Add a splash screen
• Set the main scene of your project properly
• Add your game name in the project settings + localizations
• Make fullscreen the default (most of the time)
• Add a custom mouse cursor
• Enable AA if applicable to get rid of jaggies

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