Some UX comments. I'm not sure if you have a line up to the development team, but these minor suggestions should help a bit I think.
(1) when you start typing !community... and it automatically creates a link for you, that link is currently a direct link. That works fine for communities also on lemmy.ca, but for federated communities, it's bad -- because we don't have user accounts there. More ideally, it should default to creating the local-server-accessible version of the link -- aka /c/[email protected] rather than https://server.tld/c/community. This will allow people to jump to between communities more easily.
(2) Right now the modlog shows federation wide events. This is great from the perspective of transparency, but it'd be nice if there was a subset limited only to those communities you're moderating. How hard would this be to implement?
(3) For things like the /c/hockey game-day-thread that happened yesterday, it'd be nice as the poster to be able to set the default comment sorting. In that case, setting the default to new would have been useful.
(4) It'd be nice to be able to set a default for the Frontpage. For example, to Subscribed+Top_Day. Having to click twice each time to see your subscriptions is a little annoying.
(5) It'd be nice to be able to set a default language, rather than having to choose it from the dropdown every time. Like in user options, "When I do not select a language, my comments and posts will default to ..."
(6) Reddit refugees are used to being able to type r/subname and have the link be autocreated. Would it be reasonable for the autolinking that occurs with !community to also occur if someone types c/community or /c/community? Transferable skills ;)
I don't speak rust, but am a programmer. It may be easier for someone Involvedβ’ to do, than for me to spin up a server for development/testing.
Thanks for hosting! Let me know if you want help with /c/Winnipeg.